GOVERNMENT OF DOMINICA
CHANGE BEING MADE [ British Official Wirelees.] RUGBY, Nov. 18. In the House of Lords the Parliamentary Secretary for the Colonies moved the second reading of the Dominica Bill, which seeks to separate Dominica from the colony of the Leeward Islands and make it a separate colony. If the Bill became law, he said, it was intended that Dominica should be governed in future as part of the Windward Islands. Lord Elibank, in support of the Bill, said that it was the culmination of a very difficult controversy which had being going on. for many years. There was no ore in Dominica who would not welcome the Bill. The Bill was read a second time.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 276, 20 November 1937, Page 7
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