CONTENTS
PACK.
Chapter 1. Introductory
Chapter 11. Secretariat and Revenue Chapter -Law and Police
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SIR,
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Chapter
Chapter V. Education
IV. Medical and Health ...
51
71
Chapter VI. Forests...
81
Chapter VII.-Agriculture
93
Chapter VIII.-Public Works...
103
Chapter IX.-Irrigation
119
Chapter X. Railways and Harbour
125
Chapter
XI.-Other Departments ...
153
Chapter XII.-Budget Form and Procedure
158
Chapter XIII.-Retrenchment...
164
Chapter XIV.--Taxation
181
Chapter XV.-Financial Summary
216
Chapter XVI.-Industrial Resources
222
Appendix
1.-Departmental Savings
244
Appendix II.-Summary of Establishment Changes
248
Appendix II-Summary of Regrading Proposals for Higher Posts in
the Public Service
269
Appendix IV.-Railway Reductions Proposed
274
Appendix V.--Occupiers' Tax, Draft Ordinance Index
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REPORT OF THE COMMISSION APPOINTED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES TO ENQUIRE INTO THE FINANCIAL SITUATION OF
MAURITIUS.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C.. M.P., SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES.
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We were appointed by your predecessor, the Right Honourable Lord Passfield, Commissioners to enquire into the financial situa- tion of Mauritius with the following terms of reference-:
To investigate the financial position of Mauritius in the light of the Colony's economic resources and to report thereon. **To advise as to the specific measures to be adopted to reduce expenditure and/or increase local revenue in order to secure and maintain a balanced budget without loss of adminis- trative efficiency or with the minimum loss of such efficiency and without undue risk of prejudicing future development or future revenue prospects; if a balanced budget cannot be secured without serious loss of administrative efficiency or serious risk of prejudicing future development or future revenue prospects, to advise as to which of the specific measures referred to above would have to be omitted to avoid these results.
"To advise what measures should be taken to reduce the burden on the general revenues of the Colony in respect of the Government Railways; and
"To advise on the desirability, from the financial and economic points of view, of completing the irrigation schemes which have been started in the Colony and of undertaking other schemes of development."
We left London on the 9th July, 1931, and travelled from Marseilles by the Messageries Maritimes Line to Mauritius, where we arrived on the 23rd August.
We devoted the first month of our stay in the Colony mainly to studying the machinery of administration. We made a personal examination of the work and internal organization of every Govern- ment department, such examination in the case of the more important departments being of a detailed nature and extending in some instances over several days. Immediately after our arrival the Mauritius Government announced our terms of reference and at our request informed the Council of Government and the public in general that we should at first be engaged on this administrative
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