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salaries were fixed in the light of that system and to the usual practice in other parts of the Colonial Empire, the basis of rentals could not be altered without concomitant revision of salaries. Any attempt to vary rentals without adjusting salaries would be equivalent to a salary cut and would result in anomalies as between officers at present entitled to free quarters and officers not eligible for such free quarters but liable to pay rent. We recommend therefore that no change be made in the rentals

at present charged.

12. We desire to express our thanks to our Secretary, Mr. D. Kelvin-Stark, for his able assistance in our investigation.

13. Mr. W. J. Carrie, who was appointed a member of the Committee and attended all its full meetings, left the Colony on long leave before the final form of our Report was settled and is therefore unable to sign it, but he had already expressed full agreement with the general purport.

S. CAINE,

H. E. POLLOCK,

J. K. BOUSFIELD.

16/3/38.