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Your telno. 1375:
1.
Director of Public Works.
Promotion of Mr D W McDonald is provisionally
approved as proposed.
2.
If you consider it essential to announce this even
before Robson's substantive appointment as Secretary for
the Environment, we would agree. We have however noticed
that Mr McDonald is relatively young and does not come from
among the engineers who are strong in the P.W.D. It does
not appear from his confidential reports that he is well
known outside the department. The only counter-signature
on these reports is by Lloyd in March 1973 who said he did
not know him very well.
an area
If as seems possible, the P.W.D. becomes a prime
of indigest for A target for the Anti-Corruption Commission, has McDonald the
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