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CONFIDENTIAL.
C.O. 4th Meeting (1927).
COLONIAL OFFICE CONFERENCE, 1927.
Copy No. 16
STENOGRAPHIC NOTES OF THE FOURTH MEETING HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON THE 11TH MAY, 1927, AT 4 P.M.
Present:
The Right Hon. L. S. AMERY, M.P., Secretary of State for the Colonies (in the Chair).
The Right Hon. W. ORMSBY GORE, M.P., Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Sir GRAEME THOMSON, K.C.B., Governor,
Nigeria.
Lieut.-Colonel Sir E. W. M. GRIGG, K.C.V.O.,
C.M.G., D.S.O., M.C., Governor, Kenya.
Sir D. C. CAMERON, K.C.M.G., K.B.E.,
Governor, Tanganyika Territory.
Sir H. A. BYATT, K.C.M.G., Governor, Trinidad. Mr. H. C. LUKE, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary
Sierra Leone.
Mr. R. S. D. RANKINE, C.M.G., Chief Secretary,
Nyasaland.
Mr. R. POPHAM LOBE, C.M.G., Colonial Sec-
retary, Cyprus.
Mr. E. B. ALEXANDER, C.M.G., Controller of
Revenue, Ceylon.
Mr. H. MARRIOTT, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary
Straits Settlements.
Lieut.-Colonel W. B. DAVIDSON-HOUSTON, C.M.G., Administrator, St. Lucia, represent- ing Windward Islands.
Mr. E. BAYNES, O.B.E., Colonial Secretary,
Leeward Islands.
Sir HENRY LAMBERT, K.C.M.G., C.B., Senior
Crown Agent for the Colonies.
Brig.-General Sir S. H. WILSON, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., C.B., Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Brig.-General Sir F. GORDON GUGGISBERG,
K.C.M.G., D.S.O., Governor, Gold Coast. Sir H. J. STANLEY, K.C.M.G., Governor,
Northern Rhodesia.
Brig.-General Sir JOSEPH BYRNE, K.B.E., C.B.,
Governor, Seychelles.
Mr. W. C. F. ROBERTSON, C.M.G., Governor,
Barbados.
Mr. E. B. JARVIS, C.M.G., Chief Secretary,
Uganda.
Mr. E. COSTLEY-WHITE, O.B.E., Chief Sec-
retary, Zanzibar.
Mr. E. MILLS, O.B.E., Assistant Chief Sec-
retary, Palestine. Mr. R.
0. WINSTEDT, C.M.G., D.Litt., Director of Education, Malay States. Mr. S. B. B. McELDERRY, Cadet Officer, Class
II, Hong Kong.
Mr. H. HENNIKER-HEATON, Colonial Secretary,
Bermuda.
Mr. J. N. OLIPHANT, Conservator of Forests,
British Honduras.
Sir GILBERT GRINDLE, K.C.M.G., C.B.. Deputy to Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Mr. W. C. BOTTOMLEY, C.B., C.M.G., O.B.E.,
Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office.
The following were also present:
Captain the Hon. B. E. H. CLIFFORD, C.M.G., M.V.O., Imperial Secretary, South Africa. Major R. D. FURSE, D.S.O., Private Secretary (Appointments) to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Colonel C. W. G. WALKER, D.S.O., Secretary,
Governors' Conference, East Africa.
Dr. A. T. STANTON, Chief Medical Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Mr. D. CAIRD, C.B.E., Director of Information, | Mr. W. D. ELLIS, C.M.G., Assistant Secretary,
Colonial Office.
Colonial Office.
Mr. A. J. HARDING, O.B.E., Assistant Secretary, Mr. O. G. R. WILLIAMS, Assistant Secretary,
Colonial Office.
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Colonial Office.
Mr. E. B. BOYD, Secretary to the Conference. Mr. G. H. CREASY, Deputy Secretary.
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