The Imperial Institute

Abstract

THE Imperial Institute (Management) Bill, which received the Royal Assent on April 18^ provides for the transfer of the property and management of the Imperial Institute from the Board of Trade (in which these were vested by the Act of 1902) to the Colonial Office. Mr. Bonar Law, in a speech on the second reading in the House of Commons, explained that in view of the commercial reorganisation which would take place after the war the Government desired that the valuable work of the institute should be supported by a larger and more representative governing body, on which each of the Dominions, India, and the Crown Colonies would be represented, as well as the Colonial Office, the Board of Trade, the Board of Agriculture, and the India Office, whilst representatives of the commerce and industry of the United Kingdom would also be nominated on the executive council, which will consist of twenty-five members. Among the speakers at this stage, and afterwards in Committee, were Sir J. D. Rees, Sir John Jardine, and Colonel Yate, all of whom proposed increased representation of India, and Sir Philip Magnus, who asked for the appointment of representatives both of the Imperial College of Science and Technology and of the University of London.