§ 112. Mr. J. Johnsonasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will make a statement upon the plan of the Mauritius Government to purchase the generating and distributing plant of the General Electric Supply Company Limited of Mauritius; and the sum involved in this transaction.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydAfter protracted negotiations with the company about the purchase of its output, and faced with its intimation that it would cease to supply current after the end of 1954, the Central Electricity Board recently offered to purchase the company's undertaking outright. I understand that negotiations are proceeding, and I am not in a position to make any further statement at present.