VISIT TO MALAYA

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 121, 20 February 1928, Page 9

VISIT TO MALAYA

OF COLONIAL UNDERSECRETARY Rugby, February 17. The Colonial Office announces that at the request of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Ormsby-Gore, Colonial Under-Secretary, will pay a short visit to the Straits Settlement and Nlaltiy States. He will be accompanied bv Mr. Creasy, of the Colonial Office,'and Mr. Lloyd, Secretary of the Research Grants Committee of the Empire Marketing Board. “The principal object of Mr. Orms-bv-Gore’s visit will be to report on the scientific and economic developments in British Malaya, and in particular on the progress of the medical, agricultural, veterinary, forestry and education departments Mr. Ormsby-Gore will leave England on March 15 and arrive at Penang on April 6. He will leave Singapore on June 1 and' will spend a fortnight in Cevlon on his return journey in order to visit the agricultural research stations in that island. He expects to be back in England in the first week in July. He hopes to pay a brief visit to the scientific and research stations at Buiteiizorg, in Java, during the latter half of May. Mr. Ormsby-Gore will confer with the Colonial 'Governments regarding the recommendations of the Colonial Office Conference of last year and on matters arising out of the Imperial Agricultural Research Conference. His report, which will be analogous to that on his visit to British West Africa in 1926, will be presented to Parliament. —British Official Wireless.