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
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:
Allst
he was audited
M
W Lucas
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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
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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.
Lia...