KONG KONG.
147
DOWNING STREET,
31
January, 1935.
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Sir,
In my circular despatch of the 27th of March,
1955, I informed you that I had appointed a Committee
to review the arrangements relating to the grant of
leave and passages to officers in the Colonial Service.
The Committee's report has recently been presented to
Parliament, and copies have already been forwarded to you.
The Committee addressed themselves in the
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first place to considering whether it was possible to
formulate a statement of the general principles by which
the nature and extent of the privileges in respect of
leave and passages granted to officers in the Colonial
Service should be governed. The need for such a
statement has been scoontuated by the steps which have
been, and are being, taken to carry into effect the
policy of unification in the Colonial Service, since it
is inherent in that policy that the conditions under
which members of a unified Service are employed in
difierent Dependencies should be related to, and, (subject
to such neces ary divergencios as local circumstances
require) brought into conformity with, a common standard
applicable to the Service as a whole. The tak of the
Committee was complicated by the multiplicity and
variety of existing reguls tions and practice, and by the
differences in climatic and other conditions between
one
GOVERNOR
SIA WILLIAM PEEL, K.C.M.G., K.B.R..
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