35. Mr. GIDEON MURRAYasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware of the hardship accruing to Colonial Civil servants by reason of the Colonial Office Regulation which provides that any official promoted or transferred from one Colony to another to a post of £500 per annum or over must pay his own passage and expenses; and whether he will consider the desirability of abolishing this anomaly, which not infrequently compels higher paid officials to decline transfer or promotion to posts for which they are eminently fitted?
§ The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the COLONIES (Lieutenant-Colonel Amery)Colonial Regulation No. 121, to which my hon. Friend no doubt refers, concedes the grant of free passages for himself and his family to an officer transferred to an appointment carrying a salary not exceeding £500. I have no reason to believe that cases of the kind mentioned are frequent, but I will give the matter further consideration.