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correspondence concerning them, and the urgent need
of candidates, has been maintained up till the present time.
In fact I may say that no pains have been spared in
the endeavour to fill these vacancies. Land a should feel
it necesary to deprecate strongly any suggestion to the contrary
7.
When Mr.Orme arrived in this country, oppor-
tunities were taken of discussing the question of re-
cruitment with him, and arrangements were made for him
to visit Oxford and Cambridge with a view to stimula-
ting interest in Hong Kong appointments at those Univer-
sities. I think you will be interested to read the en-
closed extract from a letter which he wrote to my Private
Secretary(Appointments), Major Furse, after his visit to
Cambridge.
8.
The salient fact is that extremely few young men
in this country, of the education and type desired, are at
present prepared to consider a career in Hong Kong.
As a
result of discussions which have taken place with University
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authorities and with many candidates for African or other
appointments (whose notice at interviews has been drawn to the
vacancies in Hong Kong), I have come to the conclusion that this
is to be attributed to a number of deterrent influences, of
which the main ones may briefly be summarised as follows:-
(1)