HC Deb 13 March 1951 vol 485 cc159-60W
Mr. Emrys Hughes

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what was the previous business experience of each

Criminal Justice Act, 1948, there is no longer any distinction between charges proved and convictions, and the figures given for convictions now include all cases which would formerly have been described as "charges proved."

member of the Board of the Colonial Development Corporation.

Mr. J. Griffiths

The present members of the Corporation with business experience, with details of that experience, so far as they are known to me, are as follows:—Mr. ROBIN BROOK (Deputy Chairman): Director, Ionian Bank and Hellenic and General Trust since 1946. Director, Bank of England, 1946–49. National Discount Company, 1930–46. Mr. H. M. GIBSON: Director, The Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited, and other Companies Mr. H. HUME: Chairman, Charterhouse Investment Trust Limited; Chairman and Managing Director, Charterhouse Finance Corporation Limited; Deputy Chairman, Metropolitan Estate and Property Corporation Limited; Director, Associated British Maltsters Limited; Methuen and Company Limited, and several other Companies. Mr. G. TYSER: For 30 years Managing Director of Lazard Brothers and Company Limited. Also Chairman of the Mercantile Group of Investment Trust Companies and Joint Deputy Chairman of Phoenix Assurance Company Limited. Mr. A. J. MITCHELL: Colonial Service (Public Works Department, Tanganyika), 1930–49. Formerly associated with various engineering firms in the United Kingdom and abroad.