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onable the Government in cases in which the medical

authorities considered it imperative to send an offieer to this country (or a Dominion), to provide free passages for the

officer and his wife, concession which in so far as the officer's own pssssge is concerned has long been in force

in the Tropical African Dependencies, extensions of leave on medical grounds with full pay, as is already the practice in many Dependencies and in the civil

Service in this country.

and to Arant

A further question which srises as regards the provision of passages is that of the class of accommodation

Under which should normally be provided on board ship.

the existing regula tions the class of accommodation provided for any individual of leer is determined by reference to his

The Committee recommend that this scale of salary.

practice should be abandoned, and that all officers to whom their recommendations apply should be eligible for the same class of accommodation. This recommendation appears to me

to be based on sound grounds, and, if it is sãoptod, the officers referred to in my despatch No.345 of the 7th September 1933 and connected correspondence will presumably

become eligible for first-cless p988sgos.

6.

I come now to the question of the application of the Committee's proposals, if and when they are finally

approved, to serving officers.

In the closing para, raphs

of their Report the Committee give cogent reasons in support

of the view that officers have no moral claim to the onjoyment throughout their careers of the leave and passago conditions which were in force at the date of their original appointment; they further indicate that in general officers are not appointed on conditions which give them a quasi-

contractual