14.
798
which constantly arizes here, respecially
in the Public Works Department, of of officers, because
losing the services of officers,
can
they fire,
t better terms in private
Joh
I think deserving of Your Lordship's consideration Mr. Brown's ~
suggestion that officers engaged for his
should sign an
agreement that
staff
they will not, without permission, go_
into private practice, or accept other employment in the Colony (or in the
ten years. Own
East) for the period of ten years.
distance
from th
the
source/
of supply
and the consequently long time -
which
ก
which it takes to fill adequately the ~
-place vasated by an experienced officer,
to the necessity of
point in any
case
some attempt to secure more
permanent tenure of office.
18.
In
order to
6 guard
on
other hand agamot inefficiency.
who
of opinion that all the officers. to be engaged
engaged should.
are
enter into an a
instance, for
end
the
I
agreement, in the first
three
years only, At the that time, if they had shown themselves valuable officers, they would
of
be placed
on the Fixed Establishment,
and