Colonel Eric Hefford. C.B.E., D.S.O. retired from twenty-four years of army life, looked around him at the crumbling British Empire and stepped deftly on to the band-wagon. He set up shop selling Independence Celebrations to any new nation which cared to call, and eight have so far obliged. Prime Ministers are awed by the pomp and precision he can bring to chaotic rehearsals of Governors and Field-Marshals and thousands of flag-waving children. Always they recommend him to other newly emerging countries. Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Jamaica, Malta, Guyana, Barbados have been through it all with the Colonel. This time it was the turn of Mauritius.