DOMINIONS' AFFAIRS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18423, 2 July 1925, Page 9

DOMINIONS' AFFAIRS.

NEW APPOINTMENTS. RESEARCH COMMITTEE'S DUTIES. (BY CABLE—rRESS ASSOCIATION"—-COrYRIGIIT.) (BELTER'S TELEGRAMS.) (Received July Ist, 5.33 p.m.) LONDON, June 30. Brigadier Sir Samuel AYilsou, just returned from his post as Gov-ernor-in-Chief of Jamaica, has been appointed Permanent Under-Secre-tary for the Colonies, Sir Gil"bert Grindle (Assistant-Under-Secrc-taiy at the Colonial Office) his deputy, and Sir Charles Davis (also Assistunt-Undcr-Seerctary) Permanent UnderSecretary for Dominions' Affairs.

In the House of Lords, Earl Balfour, explaining tho purposes of tho Dominions' Civil Research Committee, which was announced in June, said it was not similar to an Industrial Research or Medical Research Committee. Its whole analogy was with tho paren* Committee of Imperial Defence, and it no more deserved tho description of "Research Committee" than did its parent. The new Committee would not substantially modify the existing system of administration. Earl Balfour added that there was no natural method by which the Dominions could call for counsel at their desire if a question in which they were specially interested was raised apart from the elaborate machinery of an Impeii Conference, with its attendant 'inconvenience to overseas statesmen. The new Committee would enable any Dominion to send its representative with its consent to the British Prime Minister to explain his Government's views on any particular subject, and the best means by which the joint methods of the members of tho Empire might attain satisfactory results. Tlie new Committee would also diminish friction between Departments. He emphasised that the Committee's powers wero purely advisory to Cabinet.