§ 42. Lieut.-Colonel ANGUS McDONNELLasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in view of the rapid growth of trade with the Crown Colonies and the importance of increasing those Imperial markets, the Government intend to set up any commission or committee to inquire as to the desirability of complete re-organisation of the Colonial Office?
§ Mr. AMERYI am, of course, entirely in sympathy with the object that my hon. and gallant Friend has in view, but I doubt whether it would be materially assisted by an inquiry of the kind suggested. One of the objects of the recent separation of the Dominions Office from the Colonial Office was to enable the 901 latter to deal more effectively with the increasing magnitude and importance of the tasks before it.