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findings of the Twenty-ninth Session will be submitted to the respective members of the Organization. The intention is to have a full and complete Convention ratified at the Thirtieth Session in 1947. The following are some of the conclusions arrived at in Paris regarding the peoples of dependent territories : Improvement of Standards The following shall be among the measures to be considered by the competent authorities for the promotion of productive capacity and the improvement of standards of living of primary producers:— (a) The elimination to the fullest practicable extent of the causes of chronic indebtedness: (&) The control of the alienation of agricultural land to non-agricul-turalists so as to ensure that such alienation takes place only when it is in the best interest of the territory: (c) The supervision of tenancy arrangements and of working conditions with a view to securing for tenants and labourers the highest practicable standards of living and an equitable share in any advantages which may result from improvements in productivity or in price levels. Equality of Wages for Work of Equal, Value 1. It shall be an aim of policy effectively to establish the principle of equal wages for work of equal value in the same operation and undertaking and to prevent discrimination directed against workers by reason of their race, religion, or sex in respect of opportunities for employment and promotion and in respect of wage-rates. 2. All practicable measures shall be taken to lessen any existing differences in wage-rates which are d,ue to discrimination by reason of race, religion, or sex by raising the rates applicable to the lower-paid workers. 3. Workers engaged for employment from outside any dependent territory may be granted additional payments to meet any reasonable personal or family expenses resulting from employment away from their homes. Inspection 1. Inspectors appointed by the competent authority and provided with credentials shall be authorized by law to exercise the following powers for the purpose of carrying out their duties:— (a) The power to visit and inspect, at any hour of the day or night, places where they may have reasonable cause to believe that persons under the protection of the law are employed: (b) The power to enter by day any place which they may have reasonable cause to believe to be an undertaking, or part thereof, subject to their supervision: (c) The power to question any person employed in the undertaking either alone or in the presence of witnesses, or to apply for information to any other person whose evidence they may consider necessary: (d) The power to require to be shown any registers 1 or documents which the laws regulating conditions of work require to be kept. 2. Before leaving the undertaking, Inspectors shall, if possible, notify the employer or his representative of their visit, unless they consider such a notification may be prejudicial to the performance of their duties.

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