AFRICAN COLONIES.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19160, 17 November 1927, Page 9

AFRICAN COLONIES.

CLOSER CO-OPERATION SOUGHT

(BRITISH OFFICIAL WIEELESS.) RUGBY, November 15. It was recently announced that the Government had authorised the Colonial Secretary to send a Commission to Africa, to investigate the possibility of securing more effective cooperation between the Governments of the Eastern and Central African Dependencies, and to make a recommendation on this and cognate matters. The Colonial Secretary has now constituted a 'Commission as follows: Sir Edward Hilton-Young (Conservative, Norwich), chairman; Sir Reginald Mant, Sir George Schuster, and Mr J. H. Oldham. Mr Downie, of the Colonial Office, has been appointed secretary. The Commission will leave England on December 22nd, and will travel via the Nile to Uganda and thence to Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar, Nyasalnnd, and Northern Rhodesia, visiting the chief centres and hearing the views of representatives of different sections of the community. The Commission will also visit Salisbury for the purpose of conferring with the Government of Southern Rhodesia. It will return from Cape Town. Colonel Walker, secretary of the conference of East African Governors, will accompany the Commission on its tour through the East and Central African Dependencies, and will be associated with Mr Downie as local secretary to the Commission. Sir Edward Hilton-Young, who is a Conservative member of Parliament for Norwich, has been Financial .Secretary to the Treasury, and has served on financial missions for the British Government to India, Poland, and Iraq. He was chairman of the recent Royal Commission on Indian currency. Sir Reginald Mant has occupied many important financial positions in connoxion with the Government of India, and was a member of the Commission on Indian currency. Sir George Schuster is Financial Secretary to the Sudan Government, and is chairman of the Advisory Committee to the Colonial Secretary on East African loans. Mr Oldham is secretary of the International Missionary Council, and is a member of the Advisory Committee at the Colonial Office on native education in tropical Africa.