43. Mr. GIDEON MURRAYasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can now make a further statement with regard to the abolition of the Regulation whereby a, Colonial Civil servant, accepting office at a salary of over £500 per annum, has to pay his own passage and that of his family to the Colony to which he is appointed or transferred; whether he is aware that this Regulation which was formerly a handicap is now a great hardship, owing to the largely increased cost of railway and ocean travelling; and whether, if it is not deemed advisoble to abolish the Regulation altogether, he will consider the desirability of increasing the limit to £800 per annum so as to bring the Regulation more into conformity with the general rise in the cost of living and salaries?
§ Lieut.-Colonel AMERYThe question of passages for officers on first appointment, and when coming on leave, is being considered in connection with Colonies in Which a general revision of salaries is taking place, but I am not in a position to announce any general decision on the subject.