asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what reply has been sent to the request of the Mauritius Government Servants' Association that the leave and passage regulations introduced in April, 1947, should be withdrawn; and why these regulations establish different privileges for officers from different areas.

No representations on behalf of the Mauritius Government Servants' Association as described have yet been received by me, but I am making inquiries. As regards the second part of the Question, it is, of course, quite natural for different leave and passage regulations to be applied to officers whose homes are overseas and those whose homes are in the Colonies in which they serve, and the regulations of a large number of Colonies are based on this principle.