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{J.)—Co-OPERATION FOR TECHNICAL RESEARCH AND INFORMATION.
It was decided to adopt the following resolutions :
Resolution 1.
This Imperial Economic Conference recommends the
adoption of the first of the two schemes for the future of the
Imperial Institute and the Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau
proposed in the Report* of the Imperial Institute Committee
of Enquiry, 1923, subject to the following modifications :
(i) That in order to ensure that the reconstituted
Imperial Institute may in future undertake in its labora-
tories only preliminary investigations of raw materials for
the purpose of ascertaining their possible commercial
value, and to ensure that investigation or research of
a more extensive kind may be referred to the appropriate
authority, whether in this country or elsewhere in the
Empire, there shall be formed a small Committee of the
Governing Body to be known as the ¢ Laboratory Com-
mittee,” consisting of the Comptroller-General “of the
Department of Overseas Trade (or his nominee), the
Secretary of the Scientific and Industrial Research Depart-
ment (or his nominee), and a Fellow of the Royal Society,
being a representative of that Society on the Governing
Body of the Imperial Institute, who will supervise the
laboratory work of the Institute and report thereon from
time to time to the Governing Body.
(ii) That, with a view to ensuring that in future the
reconstituted Institute may have expert assistance in
regard to finance, e.g., in establishment matters, a repre-
sentative of His Majesty’s Treasury be added to the new
Governing Body and to the new Managing Committee
proposed in paragraphs 100 and 101 of the Report of the
Imperial Institute Committee of Enquiry.
Resolution =.
This Imperial Economic Conference approves the estimate
of the cost of maintaining the reconstituted Institute as set out
in paragraph 5 of the memorandum by the Secretary of State
for the Colonies submitted to the Conference (LE.C. (23)—18);
and suggests that in order that the sum of £8,000, which is
proposed as an annual contribution from the Dominions and
India, may be obtained, the ministerial representatives of the
Dominions and of India. advise their respective legislatures to
contribute the following annual amounts for a period of five
years :
£
Canada vis a rev 2,000
Commonwealth of Australia ... 2,000
New Zealand} ors ori 1,200
* This Report will be published in due course.
f On the understanding that New Zealand is willing to raise this
amount to £1,500, provided that the Exhibition Galleries of the Institute
are retained.
