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Colonial Office: Colonial Development Advisory Committee
Catalogue reference: CO 970
What's it about?
CO 970
This series contains minutes of meetings of the Colonial Development Advisory Committee, which was appointed to consider and report on applications for assistance from the Colonial Development Fund.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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CO 970
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office: Colonial Development Advisory Committee
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Date (When the record was created)
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1929-1940
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains minutes of meetings of the Colonial Development Advisory Committee, which was appointed to consider and report on applications for assistance from the Colonial Development Fund.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Colonial Office, Colonial Development Advisory Committee, 1929-1940
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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3 volume(s)
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- International
- Aid and development
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Colonial Development Advisory Committee which was appointed in 1929 by Lord Passfield, Secretary of State at the Colonial Office, with the following terms of reference :- In accordance with Section 1 of the Colonial Development Act, 1929, to consider and report on, in the manner to be prescribed in the regulation to be made by the Secretary of State under Section 1 (9) of the Act, applications for assistance from the Colonial Development Fund, in furtherance of schemes likely to aid and develop agriculture and industry in the Colonies, Protectorates and Mandated Territories, and thereby promote commerce with, or industry in, the United Kingdom by any of the means specified in Section 1 (1) of the Act.
This committee was superseded during the Second World War by the Colonial Development and Welfare Advisory Committee.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5159/
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