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perhaps by setting up a Committee of the Legislative Council

with executive and subordinate legislative powers in the

The Committee could consist

field of local government.

mainly or wholly of unofficial members.

11.

Other points made by Mr. Ingrams were:

(1) that it would always be necessary to have a

Governor in Gibraltar, and, he thought, desirable to

have a Service Governor, It was worth noting

the

that Service Governors usually took a civilian

sido in matters in dispute;

(ii) that the most scrious problem in the territory

was that of the increase of population. The

present population of 24,000 was an absolute

maximum. Ways should be considered of making

1t possible for more Gibraltarians to earn their

living outside the fortress, particularly in

this country;

(iii) that local opinion was very much in favour of

forging much closer ties with this country and,

even although the balance of argument. might lic

against making Gibraltar administratively part of

the United Kingdom, it could in several fields,

depend more on United Kingdom machinery.

would be advantage in bringing the Courts within the

United Kingdom orbit and this proposal would have a

strongly assimilative character. (Reference was

made to the fact that there was no Court of

Criminal Appeal.)

There

/(a) Aden.