WEST AFRICAN COLONIES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22517, 27 September 1938, Page 13

WEST AFRICAN COLONIES

♦ COMMISSION OF INQUIRY GRANT BY LEVERHULME TRUST omoic ocs on conMvoxßnrx.) LONDON, August 5. The trustees of the Leverhulme Trust have invited four members of Parliament to conduct an inquiry in West Africa. The members are to have the assistance of technical experts. The invitation has been accepted by Colonel J. Sandeman Allan (Birkenhead West), Mr C. G. Amnion (Camberwell North), Mr E. Clement Davies, K.C. (Montgomery), and Dr. L. Haden Guest (Islington North). The technical experts are:—Dr. E. M Crowther, D.Sc, F.I.C. (head of chemistry department, Rothamsted (Experiment Station, Harpenden); Lieutenant-Col-onel A. G. Doherty, FJI.C.VJS. (secretary, Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, Dublin); Mr H. C. Sampson, B.Se. (Economic Botanist, Kew); Mr E. P. Haslam, B.A. (Oxon), M.A. (N.Z.), who will also act as secretary. Mr Haslam belongs to Auckland, and was one of the three Rhodes Scholars from New Zealand for 1934. He went to BallioL The commission will leave for Dakar, in French Senegal, on October 5. It will be absent from England until after the New Year.

The Leverhulme Trust was formed to make grants from money set apart by Lord Leverhulme in his will to assist research work of all kinds. The commission will investigate, study, and report on the West African Colonies generally, the inter-relationship between the Government, its officials, the traders, and the natives, the status and standard of life of the native population, and improvement thereof, the production of food and other materials and the increase thereof, and in particular certain main problems in respect of the development of agricultural, pastoral and forestry resources.