(c) The
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Selection on merit
/ Comparatively small number of places available
coupled with the system of nomination
inevitably limits the number of interests that
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can be represented. We cannot ignore this
aspect of the matter altogether but could we
not place even more emphasis than we do now on
individual merit and so get away, at least
in public, from the problem of having to
balance in the membership of the Councils
the claims of rival organisations such as
the Universities ? Invidious as it might
be in so compact a community for the Governor
to have to choose Mr A rather than Mr A plus
Mr B, we are not convinced that it might not be
right for him to do so. If we adopted this
approach, the reply to complaints that Mr B
had not been selected would be that Mr A's
appointment had been made on a purely personal
(a
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as opposed to representational) basis.
arrangements would have the additional advantages
of opening the way to the appointment of one
or two elected members of the Urban Council
(who would not be appointed simply because
they had been elected to the Council) and to
the removal of the "right of nomination" by
the Chamber of Commerce and JPs.
(a) Appointment of younger men of potential
If satisfactory arrangements on the lines suggested in (a), (b) and (c) could be worked
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out it would then be persible to consider
the appointment on trial of one or two
younger men of potential who may not yet
have "arrived" but who may be sufficiently
well-known and respected in their own
particular sections of the community to be
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