§ 74. Mr. G. P. Stevensasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can now announce the name of the person selected to make the inquiry into the Colonial Development Corporation's poultry scheme in the Gambia.
§ Mr. J. GriffithsThe Lord Chancellor has selected Mr. Gerald Upjohn, C.B.E., K.C., to undertake an inquiry into certain118W aspects of the Gambia poultry scheme., with the following terms of reference:
- (1) To investigate the allegation made by certain members of the Board of the Colonial Development Corporation, as re ported in the House of Commons on 29th May, 1951, by the Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, that (contrary to the statement made by Lord Trefgarne in the House of Lords on 11th April, 1951, that all the material information concerning the Corporation's poultry scheme in the Gambia was fully reported to the Board) the Board- were not, in fact, fully informed; and, for the purpose of his investigation,
- (a) to examine the documents of the Colonial Development Corporation bearing upon the matter in dispute as defined above, whether or not already publicly cited in support of either of the two conflicting views there expressed; and
- (b) to examine such witnesses as he may consider are able to give information-bearing on the same matter.
- (2) To report the results of his investigation to the Lord Chancellor.