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that the balance of advantages
is in favour of entrusting
the Colony, in the absence of
the Governor, to a civil administrator
4. A letter addressed to the
War Office by the direction of my predecessor, Lord Carnarvon,
in 1866 states forcibly another consideration - the advantage of occasionally enabling
members of the permanent Colonial
Service to acquire experience in
and show any capacity they
may possess for the discharge of
the Governor's duties. The following
extract from it:-
He (Lord Carnarvon) is
not less sensible of the importance
to the Colonial Service of profiting by the opportunities which
provisional administrations afford for testing the qualifications and training the ability
of those men in the
grades of the
service below the rank
of Governor or Lieutenant Governor,
who may be presumed, but
have not yet been proved, to be
capable of rendering valuable
service to the Crown in an
administrative career."
"In illustration of the extent
to which the interests of the
Colony are involved in the
ascertainment and trial of