§ 32. Sir R. HAMILTONasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether it is the intention of the Government to appoint an officer at the Colonial Office to act in respect of transport and railway questions in the various Crown Colonies and Protectorates in a similar manner to the officer appointed to deal with questions relating to health and sanitation?
§ 22. Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAMasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in view of the necessity for improving the communications throughout the Colonies. Protectorates and Mandated Territories in Africa, he will consider the advisability of appointing an official at the Colonial Office whose especial duty would he to co-ordinate and to advise upon all schemes of transport development?
§ Mr. AMERYI will answer these questions together. I am fully aware of the importance of co-ordinating the development of railway and other communications in adjoining territories, and for this reason I am taking steps to ensure that there is such co-ordination in East Africa. For isolated territories such as those in West Africa the arrangements which have obtained in the past for obtaining advice have worked satisfactorily, and I see no reason for making any alteration.