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it will be decirable that the Colonial Secretary should be selected from able and experienced officers of the Civil Service in the Colonies. It is an advantage in small Colonies that persons of most importance, the Judges and ...
the officials not only answers this object; but tends also to keep up among themselves a feeling of connexion with each other, and with the Empire of which all form a part!
As regards paragraphs 10 to 16, concerning professional and other special appointments, the Colonial Secretary, should be often filled up by persons from the Civil Service in the Colonies, unconnected with the parties and cliques with which such offices frequently become divided; while, (as it has been lately said,) "the interchange of appointments between different Colonies affords a training, would no doubt be generally necessary in addition to the other qualifications possessed by the Cadet. In the absence of such special training, it should be understood that any of these appointments ...
(Reference: Sir George Grey's "Colonial Policy", Volume I, Chapter I.)