Advisory Committee on Initiation and Conduct of the Work London, July 18, In connection with the proposals} for the organization of medical research in the colonies made at the Colonial Office Conference, Mr. Amery, the Secretary of State, replying' in the House of Commons to-day to Lord Apsley (Conservative), announced that in consulta tion with the Medical Research!
Council he had appointed a committee to advise upon the initiation and promotion of such medical research; upon the recruitment conditions of the service and the necessary personnel and upon the management and allocation of the funds available therefor. Mr. Ormsby-Gore, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, would be chairman and Sir George' Maxwell, formerly of the Colonial Service, deputy chair man.—Reuter.
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