COLONIAL CONFERENCE
THREE PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS [ British Official Wireless. ] RUGBY, June 22. The Colonial Governors’ Conference is to be opened at the Colonial Office to-morrow by Lord Passficld (Secretary for the Colonies). The conference is held in accordance with the suggestion made at the first conference in 1927 that such gr*herings should be held at triennial intervals for the consideration of questions of importance to the colonies. Nearly the whole of the colonial territory, which has an approximate area of 2,000,000 square miles, and supports a population of about 50.000,000, lies within the tropics. Adminstratively, financially, plegislatively, each colony is self-contained and there is wide diversity of race, language, resources, and need, but they have a common interest in certain services such a. medical, agricultural, and public works, regarding which a periodical exchange of views is regarded as valuable. The conference which opens to-morrow is expected to sit for about three weeks and there will be three main subjects for discussion, namely: (1) Colonial development with special reference to the working and application of the Colonial Development Fund. (2) The administration of scientific and technical services. (3) Problems of Colonial Administration in general.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 147, 24 June 1930, Page 7
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