that unexpended balances of the Development Fund would "not be carried forward. He expressed th opinion that this fact would make the Colonies speed-up their plans Jof development.
Mr, Thomas estimated that the Fund would enable work to the total value of £40,000,000 to be undertaken because many Colonies, he said, were prepared to carry out feertain work if the Imperial Government guaranteed half the int est for a period, As instances of schemes which could be undertaken he mentioned the drainage scheme for Sierra Leone, the extension of the Gover ment service in northern Rhodesia in view of the developments in cop: per mining there, and the construc. tion of a railway to connect with the Kenya-Uganda main line.
Colonel Amery, late Coloniat Secretary, the Rt. Hon. W. A. G. Ormsby-Gore, Into Under-Secretary for the Colonies and Sir B, Hilton Young, supported the resolution.
Suly 17.
The House of Commons to-day passed the second reading of the Colonial Development Bill, which provides for the establishment of Coloitial Development Fund of £1- 000,000 a year to facilitate borrow= ing by certain British protectorates and mandated territories in con. nection with public works schemes.
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