Lord Passfield, the Colonial Seeretary, presided at s largely attended dinner of the Corona Club' this evening.
'During the course of a speech, he reviewed various changes which! were proposed in the Colonial: Service and expressed the hope that there changes would' be accepted. throughout the British]
and that the Colocial would be as abtracthe Indian Civil vice had been, He said he feared! the Indian Civil Service, had now assed its zenith.
As. regards Hongkong, Lord Passfield commented upon the com-pileation of the trade depression by the currency problem, and announeed that the report of the Currency Gommission which had been. sent to! Hongkong was receiving the most careful consideration of the Government.
He. regretted the necessity of re-rioing the allowances made in the Malayan Civil Service to compensate for the high cost of living, but) Pointed out that allowances im the Civil Service in Britain had been! substantially reduced also, Gommenting upon the original features of the Ceylon Constitution, Lord Passfield declared that this Constitution had no parallel in the Empire except. in the London County Council The the Chief Secretary and the Law Officer in Ceylon, who had to keep the State Council team' in order, had, he said, to deal with an inter: esting experiment.
conclusion, Tord Passfild pointed out that pul officers in Ceylon would be under the special protection of the Secretary of] State us regards conditions of service—Reuter,
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