CO129-626-8 General correspondence 1-2-1951 - 30-11-1951 — Page 18

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Area and Colony

(9) WINDWARD

ISLANDS

(10) LEEWARD ISLANDS

Plans already approved by the Secretary of State with date of approval

Plans for St.

Vincent,

Dominica and Grenada were approved in September 1947 June 1949 and March 1949 respectively.

revised plan for Grenada was approved in July 1950. Approval was given to a modified plan for St. Lucia

Revision of Plans already

approved with date of approval

in August 1950 See final column.

Montserrat

September 1950

New Plans either already received (but not yet approved) or expected to be received in the near future.

Plan for St. Kitts which had been received

has been referred back to the Gover nor for revision.A plan for the

Virgin Islands is

being prepared.

Revision of plans either already received (but not yet approved) or expected to be received in the near future.

The St.Vincent plan is at present under review locally. An advance copy of the financial survey of Dominica has been received but the Governor's comments are awaited.

Reports of three- yearly reviews either already received or expected to be received in the near future.

Supplementary information

A plan for St. Lucia was con- sidered in 1949 but it was decided, because of the need to reconstruct Castries, to defer the full operation of the plan until 1952. This decision was modified in August 1950 to per- mit of the carrying out of a road and agricultural develop- ment programme,

DITERRANEAN (1) GIBRALTAR

MALTA

(2) CYPRUS

10-year plan approved in October 1946 as an ideal to be

attained as and when

Revised plan limited to

| first priority

projects only approved in

April 1949.

Minor modifi-

finances permit,cations within

the framework

of the revised

plan approved in May 1950.

Antigua, approval of the plan which had been considered by the C.E.D.C., was about to be given when two major hurricanes occurred. The Governor is con- sidering what revision will be necessary in view of the additional problems created thereby.

It is unlikely that an inte- grated Development Plan will be produced. number of indivi-

dual projects have, howe been established.

,

an application to raise the ceiling for the 10-year period to £54m. has now been received Contingent upon the appr 1 of this, approval has been given to certain specific additional

projects, including the estab- lishment of a broadcasting station and the replacement of two Teacher Training Colleges by an extended scheme for a college for post-secondary edu- cation in general. (The annual development estimates showing estimated revenue and expendi- ture over the 10-year period are approved in the same way as the ordinary estimates of modi- fications or extensions to the plan proposed which as a general rule are brought forward at the time of submission of these estimates.)

MISCELLANEOUS] |(1) MAURITIUS

January 1947

(2) SEYCHELLES

March 1948

Revised plan approved March, 1951.

Minor adjustments approved in December 1949. further review is to be undertaken in 1951.

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