If the train has reasonable qualifications for the Resident of School I agree

If not,

I agree

with an was

with In lickson

Otherwise I concur

...

in the pressured appointment

S

...

wishing (that the front

I

:

Allst

he was audited

M

W Lucas

...

Since Mr Chamberlain Minutes

that in the three Eastern colonies we have civil services varied by open competition,

and that we are

Cadets to the

as one service

it is

...

minuted this paper.

letter from

he has seconded the appointment of Hastings : claims

that

Lord Goschen, asking that

May

strengthening,

was considered for the postmastership and he would be glad if you

know the department's

his last minutes. HFW

13/1117

M. H.J. Wilson

news

this, without regard to

assistant harbour master

Will

see

Captain Hastings, "Hong Kong" & acting magistrate is a very frequent applicant for promotion. He gives some

account of himself on 20570.103 also the minutes on 883/93. He has not done badly: he is a retired sailor & his claim to be promoted to ordinary civilian appointments is a grievance because cadets are

preferred to him. Worth nothing at all. M. Chamberlain

4

In such posts

221

appointing

"Hong Kong

Malay peninsula &

hope that

in the hope (at least my hope) of gradually building

hereafter

civil service for the Far East which

in Borneo & elsewhere

may

have

Open competition is a rough & ready test but at least it is some test of

a man's abilities, and the cadets have

a further qualification of being carefully taught the native languages.

always

In these Civil Services there are some appointments for which it may be argued that specialists are

required

be so may

lengthened

that the exceptions can become the rule. Hence it has always seemed to me that it is better to make the Civil Services as wide as

possible & within them to appoint

suitable, not necessarily the senior men, and detach them for special training. Educational appointments higher magistracy etc.

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