§ 36. Mr. McEnteeasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies by whom the Uganda sugar producers were represented during the International Sugar Conference and how he was selected; by whom these producers will be represented on the permanent committee now to be set up to deal with the allocation between Colonies of the quotas available under the agreement; and whether suet, representative has the approval of the sugar producers in Uganda?
§ Mr. Ormsby-GoreThe Colonial Empire was represented at the International Sugar Conference by the United Kingdom Delegation, of which both the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies and myself were members. There was no separate representation of individual Colonial territories, but I was advised by a panel of representatives of Colonial producers on which East Africa, including Uganda, was represented by Major C. H. 1005 Dale with Mr. C. McNeil as expert adviser. Mr. McNeil has been nominated as the Uganda representative on the permanent Colonial Sugar Committee I have now set up, and I believe that nomination has the full approval of the Uganda producers.
§ 37. Mr. McEnteeasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what is the composition of the permanent committee representative of all colonial sugar producers which is to decide the allocation between individual Colonies of the total export quota available for the Colonial Empire under the International Sugar Agreement; and what steps have been taken to ascertain whether these representatives are approved by the sugar producers in the Colonies which they represent?
§ Mr. Ormsby-GoreI will circulate a list of the members of the permanent Colonial Sugar Committee in the OFFICIAL REPORT. The representatives of the several Colonies were nominated by the Colonial Governments concerned, and I have no doubt that in making their nominations they gave full consideration to the views of the local producers.
§ Following is the list:
§ CONSTITUTION OF THE PERMANENT COLONIAL SUGAR COMMITTEE.
§ Chairman: Mr. G. L. M. Clauson.
§ Colonial Office Representatives:
- Sir Frank Stockdale.
- Mr. C. G. Eastwood.
- Representatives of the West Indian,
- Pacific and Eastern Departments.
§ Colonial Representatives:
- Sir Edward Davson (Chairman, British
- Empire Producers' Organisation).
- Lieut.-Colonel I. B. Davson (Chairman, West India Committee).
- Mr. H. G. De Lisser (Jamaica).
- Mr. J. Gordon Miller (Trinidad).
- Sir Selwyn Grier (Windward Islands).
- Mr. B. E. King (St. Kitts).
- Mr. D. G. Leacock (Barbados).
- Mr. C. McNeil (Uganda).
- Mr. M. S. Moody Stuart (Antigua).
- Mr. W. J. Rook and Mr. W. Hobbins (Fiji).
- Sir Alfred Sherlock (British Guiana).
- Sir Louis Souchon (Mauritius).
- Colonel C. W. G. Walker (Kenya and Tanganyika Territory).
§ Secretary: Mr. E. Fleming (Colonial Office).
1006§ Mr. De Lisser and Mr. Leacock are serving in a temporary capacity only, during their stay in this country, and will be replaced in due course by permanent representatives of Jamaica and Barbados.