COLONIAL PROBLEMS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1003, 20 June 1930, Page 11

COLONIAL PROBLEMS

CONFERENCE BEGINS IN LONDON MONDAY SCIENTIFIC ORGANISATION British Official Wireless RUGBY, Wednesday.

The Under-Secretary for the Colonies, Dr. Drummond Shiels, announced in the House of Commons that the second Colonial Office Conference would meet on June 23. Tt «as anticipated that it would hold its final meeting on July 15. A statement issued by the Colonial Office says the conference will receive reports as to the progress made since the previous conference held in May, 1927, and will consider certain developments which have taken place in the past three years. During that period a Colonial Development Fund has been established under which an amount not exceeding £1,000,000 has been made available to aid and develop agriculture and industry in the Colonial Empire and a progress report will be considered by the conference. Further consideration w ill be given to the important proposals for a combined agricultural service which arose partly from the discussions at the last conference on the organisation of scientific services. FILM CONTROL The question of the supply and cen- j sorship of cinematographic films also has been examined by a committee and us report will be before the conference. A new committee, the creation "i which was directly due to a recommendation made by the last conference, has also been established to give advice on educational matters in all the colonies. The agenda falls into three heads, namely: (l) Colonial development; '-1 the administration of the scientific and technical departments; and (o) . e problems of colonial administration in general. The first of these headings. covers a wide range of subjects, namely, liable and wireless communications, broadcasting, civil aviation (including air surveys, meteorology and the development of air routes), railway and motor transport, films, and the development of fisheries. SOCIAL WELFARE Ehe second heading is mainly concerned with the organisation of the scientific services, including the agricultural service, though questions coneerning public health and education, to hich considerable attention is to be a evoted, also come within its scope. Under the third heading the recommendations of the committee w'hich ecently reported on the staffing of che -olonial services will be considered, nat committee made an important Proposal for the establishment of a inified Colonial service, which will receive close attention by the conference. A plenary session is to be devoted 0 a discussion of the conditions affectug the social welfare of the popula10ns of the Colonies. A session will a J* 80 .k® Plven to the question of prison and methods of dealing hh juvenile offenders.