HC Deb 13 December 1944 vol 406 c1236
79. Sir Wavell Wakefield

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if consideration is being given to the provision of shorthand secretaries, Dictaphones and radio telephony apparatus to provincial and district commissioners in the Colonial territories, in view of the increasing amount of office work required of them, so that they can discharge their paper work more expeditiously and not neglect visiting their territories.

Colonel Stanley

Colonial Governments are fully alive to the importance of touring by administrative officers and are as anxious as I am that they should be relieved as much as possible of routine office work. The methods by which such relief should be secured are primarily for those Governments to decide, and I shall be glad to bring to their notice the particular suggestions made by my hon. Friend.