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Committee.
Moreover the traditional source of Governors
and Chief Secretaries, Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service, is now drying up, and we are having to look more and more
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to the Diplomatic Service to fill these senior posts.
3. Against this background there is no longer any real need for separate machinery to handle senior dependent territories appointments. Provided the Secretary of State agrees, I will arrange for these appointments to be dealt with in future by the appropriate Diplomatic Service Boards. Their recommendations would, of course, be submitted to the
Secretary of State in the usual way.
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A meeting of the Dependent Territories Senior Appointments Board has, however, been arranged for 4 June. It will be the first for 18 months and there is enough business to justify a meeting. I therefore propose to hold it as planned. I doubt whether it would be worth appointing a Minister to sit on the Board for this one occasion.
If the Secretary of State agrees, I will arrange for the Board's advice to be submitted to him through Mr Hurd (as the Minister responsible for personnel matters), who may wish to
consult Mr Ridley.
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