At the Colonial Conference there have been some valuable discussions.
A Committee has been appointed to consider whether the proposed new service of research workers and experts should be a common corps or whether each Colony should have its own group. No pro-. posal of recent years in regard to Colonial administration has been more important than this question of constituting research and expert work as a career. It is not a thing that can be done suddenly, or mistakes will be made, but now that the idea has been launched there is no possibility of going back upon it. On Tuesday the Conference discussed the procedure of Legislatures in Crown Colonies and there was evidently a feeling that a greater use of ceremonial would be a useful link with British Parliamentary history. It was suggested that every Legislature should have a mace, that the oath of allegiance should be the first official act of every member of a Legislature, and that a Speakership in Colonial ,egislatures might gradually replac2 the chairmanship of he Governor.
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