§ MR. BUTCHER (York)To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the Departmental Committee which is to consider Mr. Rider Haggard's Report on the Salvation Army colonies has been constituted; and, if so, how is it composed.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton.) The Departmental Committee is composed as follows: — The Right Honourable Lord Tennyson, G. C. M. G., Chairman; J. S. Davy, Esq., C. B., General Inspector of the Local Government Board; Arthur Wilson Fox, Esq. , C. B. , Deputy-Comptroller, General and Labour Commissioner, Board of Trade; Bernard Holland, Esq. , C. B.; Henry Lambert, Esq. , of the Colonial Office, and Chairman of the Managing Committee of the Emigrants' Information Office; the Honourable H. L. W. Lawson, M. P. , member of the Managing Committee of the Emigrants Information Office; Colonel Llewelly n, M. P. , representing the Board of Agriculture; Herbert Samuel, Esq. , M. P.; Sidney Webb, Esq. The Committee are instructed to consider the suggestions made in Mr. Rider Haggard's Report on the Salvation Army colonies in the United States and at Hadleigh, and to advise the Government whether any steps can usefully be taken for promotion agricultural settlements in the British Colonies of persons taken from the cities of this country. It is desired that the 39 Report should embody the views of the Committee upon any questions or proposals of a practical nature relating to emigration which may arise during the inquiry.