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recommendations.
The Governor asks for reconsideration of
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Sir A. Caldecott's proposals making substantive
appointments to a number of senior posts, and states
that in his opinion a reversion to the system
previously in force, of maintaining the Class I
of the Cadets Service whose members would be
any
eligible for filling of the senior posts in question (i.e. except the Col. Sec., the Sec. for
Chinese Affairs, and the Financial Sec.), would be
in the public interest. His reasons for this
recommendation are:
(1)
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That the present system is more flexible
and enables "the square peg to be removed
from the round hole", whereas under the
alternative system an officer may have
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to be promoted over the heads of a
number of men senior to him and equal by
general efficienty, because he is more
suited for the particular vacancy.
(2)
That the system recently approved does
not offer the Cadets Service a satisfactory
avenue of promotion and will not serve
to maintain it in an efficient state.
This is essentially a C.S.D. matter and
I must admit that I cannot altogether follow Sir G.
Northcote's line of reasoning.
For example, the
contention in para. 3, that the public interest is
frew cous better safeguarded by the dating system than by
appointing substantively to a post the man most
suited to it by training and natural aptitude,
even though he be junior to other members of the
Service