COLONY OF MAURITIUS
FINANCIAL POSITION
COMMISSION TO INQUIRE
'British Official Wireless.) 1 RUGBY, Bth July. In the House of Commons, Dr. Drummorid' Shiels, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, announced that the Commission which is to investigate the financial position of Mauritius in the light i of that colony's economic resources would eb'nis't of Sir Ivo Elliott, of the Indian Civil Service (chairman), and Mr. G. liaughnane, ■of the Home Civil Service. . ~ The Commission will advise as to the measures necessary to reduce expenditure, to increase local revenue, and balance the Budget without loss of administrative efficiency or risk of prejudicing future development, and to | reduce the burden on the- general revenue of the Government railways. It will report also on the financial and economic desirability of completing the irrigation schemes in progress, and on the question of undertaking other development schemes.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 9, 10 July 1931, Page 7
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