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TRANSPORT PROBLEMS IN THE COLONIES.
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MIROM the official summary of the 12 iwneeedings of the Colonial Office Conference, which opened on May 10th and concluded on May 31st, which has just been issued, we learn that the conference devoted some tithe to considering problems of mechanical transport development in the Colonies and Proteetorates, etc., and set up a small cominittee to submit to the conference "a scheme for the establishment and financing of a committee to carry further the necessary investigations info, and improvement of, new forms of mechanical transport, with • a view to their adaptation to the requirements of undeveloped tropical territories."
In its report the committee recom
mended that a council, entitled "The Council for Mechanical Transport in the Colonies," should be appointed ; that an initial sum of .£50,000 and thereafter an annual sum of £20,000, should be placed at its disposal (this annual sum to be reconsidered from time to time) and that the Institutions of Civil, Mechanical and Automobile Engineers, the Empire Cotton-growing Corporation, the Sudan Government Railways, and any commercial or manufacturing concerns interested, should be invited to . contribute towards the funds required for the work. It further recommended that the Empire Marketing Board should also be invited to make a grant, preferably a lump sum, towards the
initial funds needed, and that the balance of the money required should be contributed, in proportion to their revenues, by those Dependencies likely to benefit from the operations of the Council.
The conference approved in principle the committee's proposals. It recommended that the report should be referred to the Empire Marketing Board with a request that the Board should take up, in fuller detail, the question of financial assistance, towards the proposed experiments and should explore the various sources from which contributions might be forthcoming, whether from Dominion or Colonial Governments or from private concerns.