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A STRONG commission, commencing under the chairmanship of the late Lord Milner, and comprising among others Sir Arthur Shipley, Sir Daniel Hall, Sir John Farmer, Dr. A. W. Hill, and Mr. F. B. Smith, has lately reported (“Agricultural Research and Administration in the Non-self-governing Dependencies.” Report of Commission, Cmd. 2825, London, H.M.S.O., 1927. 2s.) on the question of the difficulty experienced in recruiting officers of satisfactory ability for research and administrative work in the non-self-governing colonies of the British Empire. The difficulty is largely put down to lack of general interest in the development of these colonies, though they form a sixth of the area of the Empire, and have 50 million inhabitants. An interim report has already been issued, upon which action has been taken by establishing a number of scholarships, similar to those provided by the Empire Cotton Growing Corporation, whose incumbents, after taking a degree similar to the Cambridge Science Tripos, Part II., shall spend one year in special training in Great Britain and one year in the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad. In this way it is hoped to form a kind of reservoir from which the colonies may draw trained men, who will have had at any rate one year of tropical experience under proper guidance.
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[News and Views]. Nature 119, 679–682 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119679a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/119679a0