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officers in the Liaison Officer posts and have accepted two newly appointed, though not inexperienced, Administrative Officers as C.D.O.s but the majority of the posts cannot be regarded as training posts.
They are rather posts suitable for officers of some experience, who have shown a potential capacity to rise rapidly in their service,
and who can make the most of a period of exposure to intense public and government pressures.
116.
I am
The interests of prosecuting the
Government's aims in establishing the schene
and considerations related to the management of two important grades in the public service combine to make the question of the selection of officers for this work important. conscious that this view is shared by those responsible for posting but the question is so significant a factor in determining the success of this undertaking that I think it
well worthwhile to restate it here.
117.
I must deal also with the directorate
of the scheme, which consists of one Deputy Secretary at the centre and one junior super- scale officer on each side of the harbour, for this is a vital part of the organisation. I shall have misled the reader if I have given the impression of ten relatively junior district officers, chosen for their energy, imagination and promise, ridden upon a very
light rein and left free to pursue our general objectives very much by methods of their own choice. This organisation does
not of course lend itself to direction by means of circulars and instructions
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