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DEPENDENT TERRITORIES SENIOR APPOINTMENTS BOARD
1.
Appointments of Governors and certain other senior staff in our remaining Dependent Territories are handled
separately from Diplomatic Service appointments. They are
considered by a special board (the Dependent Territories
Senior Appointments Board) which meets from time to time
under my Chairmanship to make recommendations to the
Secretary of State.
2. It has been normal practice for a Minister with depend-
ent territories responsibilities to sit as a member of the
Board, and I should be grateful to know whether
Mr
would be willing to do so. Apart from myself,
the other members of the Board include the Chief Clerk,
the Head and Deputy Head of Personnel Operations Department
and senior officials concerned with the dependent
territories. A former Governor (currently Sir David Trench,
who was Governor of Hong Kong from 1964 to 1971) and a
representative of the Overseas Development Administration
are also members.
3. The Board does not often meet round the table;
appointments tend to come singly and are then most
conveniently dealt with out of committee.
now three Governorships
But there are
those of Belize, the Falkland
Islands and Montserrat which will have to be filled
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