§ Mr. MITCHELL-THOMSONasked what was the personnel of the Committee which revised the Colonial Regulations in 1908?
Mr. HARCOURTThe Committee appointed by my predecessor the right hon. Gentleman the Member for St. George's, Hanover Square, consisted of the Legal Assistant Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, Sir George O'Brien, ex-Governor of Fiji, Sir Ralph Moor, ex-High Commissioner for Southern Nigeria, and four members of the permanent staff of the Colonial Office. On the death of Sir George O'Brien, in 1906, Sir Edward Noel Walker, ex-Lieutenant Governor of Ceylon, was appointed by the Earl of Elgin as member of the Committee.