Clause 14-Commencement.
 Question put and agreed to.
 President: Iin view of the point raised by the Honourable Mr. Hughes, 1
suggest that we rise at this stage and leave the Bill in Committee. In the
meantime I will ask Honourable Members to read the Agreement very carefully,
and to advise me as soon as possible pf other points they wish to take up.
 Honourable Crown Attorney : I beg to move that the Committee rise, Council
resume, and the presiding member report to the Council.
 President : Honourable Members, I beg to. report that the Currency Bill was
considered in Committee of the whole Council, and left in the Committee stage.

 MOTIONS,
 President : I now call upon the Honourable Member for North Windward to
move the motion standiitg in his name.
 Honourable Member 'for 'North Windward Your Honour, Honourable
Members, I rise to move the following Motion :
 WHEREAS the Commission on the Unification of the Public Services have
 stated in their Report their conclusion that a unified service is at best no
 more than a half-way house between separate services for each territory and
 a federal service ", and it is their opinion that it is an indifferent substitute
 for the latter ";
 AND WHEREAS in the Report it is further pointed out that a "Public
 Service Commission will" in the case of such unified service, "have no
 control over the scope of any service that may be unified or the number of
 personnel employed in it, and that consequently there will be no assurance
 that any unified service will be well adapted to the needs of the unit on
 which unification is based, namely, the Caribbean area;
 AND WHEREAS steps are now being taken to effect early establishment of
 a Federation of the British Caribbean territories, whereby a federal service
 would automatically come into existence;
 BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that this Council is of the opinion that
 unification of the Public Services should not be proceeded with as a step
 preliminary to Federation, and declines taking further action in connection
 with such unification.
 I should not have to talk as' much- as I must today if the Civil Service
Association had not sent in to Government a.Memorandum, a copy of which I think
is in the hands of Members, strongly recommending acceptance of the Report of
the Commission on the Unification of. the Public Services. This Memorandum
states in paragraphs 2 and 3 :-
 "2. The Association has considered the motion tabled by the Honourable
 E. Duncan, Member for North Windward, urging that the Legislative Council
 of the Colony should decline taking further action in connection with such
 unification."
 "3. As the proposals for the Unification of Public Services are an
 integral part of the recommendations of the Standing Closer Association
 Committee's Report, which was.accepted by the Legislative Council at its
 meeting held on the 17th July, it would be somewhat difficult to reconcile
 such acceptance with a decision to "decline taking further action" in
 connection with the Unification of Public Services Report."