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TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH. 21, 1932.
COLONIAL OFFICE DESPATCH TO GOVERNOR.
The
deapaich is as follows;
1
same
SINGAPORE BASE.
QUESTION TO BE DISCUSSED AT OTTAWA,
London, Mar, 20.
demanded in candidates for ad- ministrative posts. In the Colonial Service do not now differ in any | essential feature in whatever part of the Colonin! Empire they may be required to serve. In recruiting The despatch to the Governor
men of the same type for the i for kind of work and in the same mar- from the Secretary of State
- The question of strengthening the Colonies Sir, P. Cunliffe-ket, it is clear that the best in the Singapore base will be discus- Lister) In regard to the changed tercats of all the Administrations
Hed at the forthcoming Ottawa system of recruitment for the concerned lie in presenting a single Conference, says the Sunday Dis- Hongkong Civil Service, sent from united appeal to the type of can
didate they wish to attract. Downing Street on Feb 11, is
The patch.
The Admiral's naval staff has forwarded by the Colonial Secret prestige of a Colonial Service, been asked to draw up plans of entered by one uniform channel what they consider should be done nry for publication.
and presenting opportunities world at Singapore, and this will be con- Sir, I have the honour to in-wide in their scope, must eventual-sidered by Cabinet before the form you that, after very carefully be far greater than that of a Ministers leave for Ottawa, but no consideration, I have decided to number of relatively small Services definite action will be taken pond- Assimilate the system of recruit- with no co-ordinated method of
Ing discussion at Ottawa.. ment for the Cadet Services
of recruitment; and the Colonial Em- Malaya and Hongkong to that in pire as a whole has become of auch force for the Colonial Service importance, that no step which will generally, An Announcement to enhance the prestige and efficiency of the Service which administera thin effect, of which I enclose a
it can safely be neglected,
Increase in the prestige and copy, appeared in the Press
Colonial popularity of the main January 20th.
Strongest Grounds for Single
Service, which does not impose- Channel,
academic test apart from those the provided therefore were
by the
'ordinary University curriculum, there strong grounds for supposing that, were the Eastern Colonies to re-
as time went on, and their field of choice seriously restricted as com- pareil with that at the disposal of the rest of the Service.
on
As a consequence of this deci alon, which was taken nfler con- Aultation with the Civil Service
There
The Dominions may be asked to
make a further contribution to wards the cost of the extra work on the base,--Reuter,
Bre
Commission and the Colonial Ser-strongest grounds for adopting vice Appointments Board, and with single channel of appointment to type in tho the concurrence of bath bodies, pots of the same
Colonial Empire. It remained to candidates for the Cadet Services sider what this channel should tain the examination, they would.
in the above mentioned Colonies
and at what stage the change will in future he selected on the should be introduced. I found that recommendation of the Colonial the overwhelming weight of
ex Service Appointments Board, inperience and argument was in stund of, as hitherto, according to favour of the selection system. For the results of the competitive ex- various reasons, which I need not amination held by the Civil Ser-
Iaborate here, the adoption of the vice Commission for the Home and
havo examination system would Indian Civil Services. The post-been Impructientie for the Colonial tion of Ceylon is special and will Service as a whole, however satis- be separately causideral in sultation with The Governor. Ja
factory it may have been in meet- Ing the relatively small require The meantime the postponement of
at present suspended.
ron -
the
It will be seen therefore that under the conditions to-day, the adoption of a common method of entry for the whole service is likely to prove generally advantageous, whole, but to each not only to the Colonial Servien as a of its com- ponent elements.
It is further a decision in regard to that Islanriments of the Cadet Services. More clear that the two main arguments uned in the past for the retention over, the Committee of the will have no immediate practical Colonial Office Conference of 1930..., (i) that the selection system of the competitive examination. effect sinc the recruitment of which examined the question of the Huropeans for the Civil Service jaanification of the Colonial Service,
Was difficult to defend against explicitly deprecated the extension charges of partiality and (2) that I realise that there may be some of the examination system beyond it did not produce
a sufficiently who will regret this decision the areas in which it was then in
high
intelectual standard of marking a break with a long and force. On the other hand, the ability, can no longer be substan- Lonourable tralition. I sympathise teatimony of the Warren
Fisher tintes. On the other hand the with that regret, and I would Committee to the success of
selection system has been proved to hasten to assure you that my deci-section system and the fact that.
possess distinct advantages both alon was not based on any failure
in widening the field of choice and as a result of that Committee's re-
given to appreciate the valuable services port: the selection system has been
enabling weight to be which have been rendered in the placed on a settled and permanent store easily to qualifications which past, and are being rendered toasis--and has been protected are of great importance in the can- day, by men who have entered the against suspicion on the score of Cadet Services through the compartiality or unfairness, if any petitive examluation. Many mich suspicion there were, by the them, I am aware, have achieved institution of the Colonial Service distinction not only in the Eastern Appointments Toard-ed almost Colonies but in other parts of the inevitably to the conclusion that, if Colonial Empire, to whose general a single method of entry development members of the Cadet adopted, that method should be the Services have materially contribut-
selection system.
to take account
of
Were
men
In
didates to be selected. The resulta of the change can, of course, only be judged from experience, but I feel that there is every reuson to
ok upon the future with
fidemere."
Reasons for Urgency. Assuming then that the change was to be munde, there were convinc.
·re-
While the obvious advantage of in arguments for making It im- Grent Changes in the Empire. this system lies in its veculiar ahould have wished to give as mediately. In the ordinary way At the same time it is essential | adaptability for securing
long notice as possible of such a great clowed with those песенлагу
chainn uit it was brought to my changes which are 80 rapidly qualities of character and tem
notice that the temporary taking plaen in the Colmial Empire | pornment which are net readily
duction of other openings for as a whole. It is necessary also to amenable to the lost of a written semember that the whole problem examination, it should not be suinancial depression, would enable young men, owing to the existing verultment at home has of re- posed that the introduction of the the selection of candidates for the ment ye; rs been considerably mudi-
system need involve anz departure
Colonial Service in 1932 to be el, on the one hand by economie from the high standards of in-
aut under Pores arising out of the war, and tellectual ability and academic de carried
peculiarly on the other by the development of tinction which are admittedly favourable conditions, and that the Initial difficulties which must in- fresh alternative careers now open characteristic of the services to the class of man
which thereafted in past years by the com- | Colonial Service desires to attract.petitive examination. Under th
the
evitably attend any radicul change of system would thus be reduceil
should the change be postponed, it was quite possible that an excep tionally favourable opportunity for establishing the position of the a first class Colonial Service as career miglit have been missed. did not feel justified in taking so
serious a risk and accordingly felt it- necessary to treat the matter the change in time for it to be in- as one of urgency and to announce troduced in connexion with selec
to
In deciding to discontinue the com-election system 11 judicious to a minimum. On the other hand, petitive examination, I have been scrutiny of the academic records looking not at the past but to the and attainments of the candidate future,
enablen a close assessment to be At a time when the Colonial Em-made of his intellectual qualifies pity consisted of scattered units, tons; and the educational records separated from each other and of recent applications show that from this country by distances the Services already recruited by which the modern methods of com- the selection system are now at- munication had not yet bridged, tracting young men of real ability and when the administration of who. From this point of view apart many of these units was still in from any other, are fully able to the pioneering stage, it was not stand comparison with those unnatural that recruitment for obtainable through the examina- lien of candidates in 1932.
Administrations of lion. With the added prestige of interest, to officials and
As this despatch will, no doubt, older Ceylon, Malaya and Hongkong which the Colonial Service will members of the public in the ter should be linked to that of the gain from presenting a single pritories immediately affected by Home and, especially, the "Indian peal to candidates, I am confident the decision, I have to Civil Services with which they had that there is every expectation that that it may be published locally in request most in common. Aя a natural the standard already reached will
Auch a manner as may commend corollary to the rapld' development to maintained and even raised.
itself to you. of the Colonial Empire as a whole On the other hand, the pressure in recent yours, corresponding of financial consideratione tends changes and developments have nowadays greatly to enhance the taken place in the importance, attractiveness of any profession character, and requirements of the ur service which offers a career as general Colonial Service. In con- soon as possible after the conclu- sequence the Services of the sion of a University course and Eastern Colonies have now to be which does not impose any
addi- considered in relation to that | tions! huzard such as a severe ad Service, and their allinity | hoc examination, involving delay with It, rather than with the In- and, in some cases, additional ex- dian and Home Services, is daily use. In this respect there is n becoming closer,
Whatever may have been the ease in the past, the quallications
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