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The Earl of Selborne rose to sak the Order-Secretary for the Colonies to explain the meaning of Colonel Commons of July 10, and of Mr. Har court'e statement of November 16 last year, that a Governorship lies quite our side of the ordinary course of promotion in the Colonial Service," and to move for papers. He said that he represented the Colonial Office in that House for five years, and afterwards had the honour of being a Colonial Governor. He therefore bad the
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friends the Colonial Service, and knew what their thoughts were concerning that Service. The words that he had quoted were very extraordinary and required some explanation. Did the question mean that in the Colonial Service, as in all other services, there was a neck to the bottle and that only a very small propor tion of those who entered the Service could hope to become Governors, or that the Secretary of State reserved to bim- self the right to recommend to the Crown for appointment as Governor some gentle- man who had never previously been in the Colonial Service? He did not think that it could mean that, but if it did the method of expressing that sentiment was infelicitous... He did not for a moment contend that it should be the practice of the Colonial Office never to make appoint- ments to Governor-Generalships from out-- side the Colonial Service, but it was very long step from that admission to the words of Colonel Seely. Practically speaking the Colonies, in the sense of this question, were the Crown Colonies, com prising the Eastern, West Indian, and West and East Africa groups, and a group of Protectorates embraced in the geo graphical area of the Union of South Africa. In all these Colonies there was a body of officers who entered the Service as boys or very young men, who had borne the burden and heat of Colonial ser- vice often under very trying conditions of climate, and who were looking forward to promotion one day. He asked the House to think what must be the effect on them of reading the words of the mouthpiece of the Secretary of Stato. There never was a moment when it was more important than now to get the best class of young men to work in these Crown Colonies, and what East and West Africa suffered from was that the inducements to enter that Service had not been sufficient. What would the home Civil Service say if they were told that the headship of a Depart- ment was quite outside of the ordinary promotion, or if the same was said with regard to the Foreign Office and Ambas sadorships, or with regard to, soldiers and the rank of general If these words stood
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(Hear, hear.) Indeed, he could give their lordships some particulars which would show that the present or any other Colonial Secretary who had been con nected with the present Government had appointed fewer Colonial Governors from outside than were appointed, VISCOUNT. KNUTSFORD, speaking with a say, during the time that the Earl question associated himself entirely long experience of the Colonial Office, of Selbome was Under-Secretary for with what had fallen from the noble earl. LORD. AMPTHILL suggested that the first as Legal Adviser and Assistant Sec-the Colonies. Prior to 1895 the propor- retary, and from 1887 to 1802 as Colonial tion of outsiders appointed was greater noble lord's answer would have been more Secretary, expressed his entire concur than it had been since that year. During satisfactory had it taken the simpler form reuce with what the noble sarl had said the five years 1895-1900 the outside up of a statement that the Colonial Secretary's He could only hope that Mr. Harcourt's pointments made were those of Sir Weat answer in another place was badly ex words had been miscontrued, for the ex-Ridgeway, who had been Governor of the [ressed, and that the meaning which had perience in his time was that a Governor Isle of Man, to the Governorship of Cer been read into it by an enormous number ship laid quite within the ordinary course lon; Sir. H. Murray, who was Chairman of of members of the Colonial Service was of promotion in the Colonial Office and the Board of Customs, to Newfoundland; not justified. During the time that he was looked upon, unless there were any Mr. Sterndale, a retired member of the was at the Colonial Office as private sec- very special circumstances for departing Indian Civil Service, to St. Helena; and retary to Mr. Chamberlain the practice from the ordinary course, as the reward Sir M. Nathan, who was sent to Sierra was to inform the applicants for appoint- of work which had been done often at the Leone and afterwarde was appointed ments that Colonial Governorships were risk of life. He knew, from communica- Governor of the Gold Coast. Air M. reserved in the ordinary course for meny tions which he had received, that Mr. Nathan was secretary of the Colonial De-bers of the Colonial Service, and only in Harcourt's words had, as his noble friend fence Committee at the time of his ap exceptional circumstances were outsiders had said, created absolute diamay in the pointment. Omitting, as he thought he appointed. Service. Unless it was the wish of the must, the appointments to Australia, noble lord who represented the Colonial South Africa, and Canada, and to the Office to destroy the spirit of the Service military Governorships, the only appoint- and to lessen the hopes, and therefore the ment which appeared to have been made good work, of the members of the Service, from outside the Colonial Service within he mast change the lingusge of Mr. Har the following five years, 1900-1905,was
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TO LET. been the custom for a number of yeare. standing high for promotion was consider- ing fulfilled the duties of the most difficult The EARL of SELBORNE.--He was in the ed carefully in relation to the particular and reponsible Colonial post of his time Colonial Office at the time of his ap-
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Governor of a particular Colony. When political friends and opponents alike, said LORD EMMOTT, resuming, said the only that process had been gone through, il he had brought forward cogent arguments appointments made by the present Gor there was no one who appeared to be in support of his view and had dealt with ernment were those of Sir P. Girotard, entirely suitable for the post, the Colonial the question on broad grounds of public who was Commissioner of Railways in Secretary looked elsewhere. Speaking interest. The complete answer which Mr. South Africa and had special experience generally, those who had to recommend Harcourt gave to Mr. Lyttelton was as of railway constraction, to the Governor appointments to his Majesty looked out- Follows: A Governorship lies outside ship of Northern Nigeria, and Sir S. side the Service for Australian appoint- the ordinary course of promotion buta de Olivier, who was a principal cork in the ments. It was also true that South Afri- the Colonial Office and in the Colonial Colonial Office from 1904 unitil 1907 and can Governorships had disappeared from Service. I see no reason for reconsider had been Colonial Secretary in Jamaica the Service altogether. He did not think ing or modifying the present practice, and from 1900 until 1904, and was sent out in the position was misunderstood in the Ser I can assure the right hon. gentleman 1907 as Governor of Jamaica. Those were
The entrance into the Service of that the claims of the Service are fully not strictly appointments from outside the men like Sir Percy Gironard, Sir Frederick considered whenever a Governorship be Colonial Service. The only appointment Lugard, and Sir William, Manning was not comes vacant, my only object being to get made by the present Colonial Secretary resented in the Service, for the great the best available man." He thought the was that of Major Chancellor to Mauritius African Governorships required special noble ear! had attached too much import last year. Just before he came to thealties. Subject to the reservation that
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