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XVI.— EMPIRE TRADE AND INDUSTRY COMMITTEE. 



Ben H. Morgan, Esq., Chairman ; Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. Bevau Edwards, K.C.B., 

 K.C.M.G.(Chairman of Council of the Institute), Sir Godfrey Lagden,K.C.M.G. (Deputy 

 Chairman of Council of the Institute), Richard Jebb, Esq., Sir Daniel Morris, K.C.M.G., 

 Henry Birchenough, Esq., C.M.G., The Hon. Sir C. H. Rason, Hugo Hirst, Esq. 

 (Chairman, Manufacturers' Association), Stanley Machin, Esq. (Ex-Chairman, London 

 Chamber of Commerce), Edward Man\alle, Esq. (Chairman, Society of Motor Manu- 

 facturers and Traders), Colonel John Denny, Major Archer-Shee, D.S.O., M.P., Lord 

 Merthyr, K.C.V.O., R. K. Morcom, Esq., G. McL. Brown, Esq., F. C. Salter, Esq., 

 Ellis T. PoweU, Esq., LL.B., B.Sc, W. M. Botsford, Esq., Hon. J. G. Jenkins, Joseph 

 Rippon, Esq. 



The objects of the committee are : — 



(1) To facilitate, encourage and arrange industrial conferences or meetings to be 

 attended by men of affairs from any or all parts of the Empire, in order to discuss 

 questions of common interest with a view to regulating and co-ordinating the conditions 

 of Empire trade and industry. 



(2) To encourage and facilitate Empire trade and industry, e.g. by arranging for 

 the reading of Papers and deUvery of Addresses on financial, industrial, and trade 

 subjects by authorities before the Institute itself and before Chambers of Commerce, 

 trade bodies, and like institutions in the leading industrial centres. 



The work of the committee has received the support and co-operation of the 

 Governments of the various overseas possessions, who have undertaken to supply to the 

 Institute their reports and other documents affecting Empire trade and industry. 



The following subjects have already engaged the attention of the committee, and 

 action in regard thereto has been taken in various directions, including formal resolu- 

 tions which have been forwarded to the President of the Board of Trade and the 

 Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs and the Colonies, deputations to the 

 Royal Empire Commission, representations to railway and shipping companies, 

 public addresses, distribution of circulars, and in other ways. 



British Consular Service. — As a result of the Committee's advocacy, the facilities 

 of the British Consular Service have been extended to the people of Canada and 

 Australia, and will shortly, it is expected, be made available to the people of South 

 Africa, New Zealand, and other parts of the Empire. Hitherto the Service has 

 represented the interests, and been at the disposal, primarily of the people of the 

 United Kingdom, and it is confidently expected that this imperialisation of the Service 

 will obviate the necessity for separate Consular representation and so promote joint 

 working and harmonious external diplomatic and commercial relations. 



Itnferial Development Board and Fund.— The Committee has devoted special 

 attention to the subject of bringing about the establishment of some machinery that 

 will be successful in promoting inter-Empire schemes of common interest, particu- 

 larly those affecting transportation and intercommunications, and has recommended 

 to the Royal Commission on Empire Trade firstly by a memorial and afterwards 

 through a deputation, the formation of an Imperial Development Board and 

 Fund as the practical means of advancing the common interests of the various 



