UNITY IN COLONIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1025, 16 July 1930, Page 11

UNITY IN COLONIES

PROBLEMS DISCUSSED BY CONFERENCE AGRICULTURE VITAL British Official Wireless Reed. 11.55 a.m. RUGBY, Tuesday. At the final plenary session of the Colonial Conference today. Lord Passfield, Colonial Secretary, reviewed the work that had been done. Among the matters discussed during the last three weeks had been problems relating to Colonial development. communications, broadcasting, civil aviation, rail and motor transport, films, fisheries, and many trade jjroblems. Committees also had considered the. question of the unification of Colonial organisation, of unified Colonial agricultural service, Colonial forestry services, and a research labour organisation, as well as the conditions of prison administration, the treatment of juvenile offenders and questions of an administrative nature. Lord Passfield, during his remarks, emphasised that agriculture, in one or other of its phases, was and must always remain the productive enterprise of the colonies, and he hoped that a practical step had been taken at the conference in the direction of unified agricultural services of benefit in recruiting and in enabling the colonies to call in specialist agriculturists to help with the big problems which were constantly recurring. He also referred to his approval of the idea of unification of colonial services on which an agreement would have been difficult without examination and discussion in the conference.