HC Deb 10 May 1944 vol 399 cc1892-3
33. Mr. Riley

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the Report of Mr. Hill, on the reorganisation of local government in Jamaica, has yet been published; whether Mr. Hill's recommendations are now being put into operation; and what the chief recommendations are.

Colonel Stanley

The Report has been published in Jamaica; and I understand that its proposals are to be debated shortly in the Legislative Council. Until that is done they cannot, of course, be put into operation. I am placing a copy of the Report in the Library of the House.

Dr. Morgan

If there are no shipping facilities for the transference or migration of labourers between islands in the West Indies, how is it possible to get the shipping to transfer them from Jamaica to the United States?

Colonel Stanley

That is quite a different matter. It arose, I think, on a previous Question.