BRITAIN’S COLONIAL EMPIRE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, 17 July 1930, Page 9

BRITAIN’S COLONIAL EMPIRE.

PLENARY SESSION OF CONFERENCE. British Official Wireless RUGBY, July 15. At the final plenary session of the Colonial Conference to-day, Lord Passfield, Colonial Secretary, reviewed the work that had been done. Among the matters discussed during the last three weeks had been problems relating to colonial development, communications, broadcasting, civil aviation, rail and motor transport, films, fisheries, and many trade problems. The committees also considered the question of the organisation of a unified colonial agricultural service, colonial forestry services and a research labour organisation and the conditions of prison administration, the treatment of juvenile offenders, and questions of an administrative nature. Lord Passfield during his remarks, emphasised the point that agriculture in one or other of its phases was and must always remain the productive enterprise of the colonies, and he hoped that a practical step had been taken at the conference in the direction of unified agricultural services which should be of benefit in recruiting and in enabling the colonies to call in specialist agriculturists to help with the big problems which constantly recurred. He also referred to the approval of the idea of unification of colonial services on which an agreement would have been difficult without examination and discussion in conference.