26. Mrs. Slaterasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies why the substantive Co-operative Societies' officer in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands was sent on a world study tour in 1954; to what extent the work of that officer's department was held up in consequence; and why he was posted to other work some months after his return to the Colony.
§ Mr. ProfumoI have asked the Acting High Commissioner for the Western Pacific for this information, and I will write to the hon. Member as soon as I have his reply.