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Administrative Officers: on the face of
it
this, the question is whether there should
be a grade of Senior Administrative Officers,
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with salary in the same scale above the time-
scale, and movable from one Department to
another, or whether the Administrative
Officer on the time-scale should, on promotion,
be appointed to a specific post which he would
be expected to hold for some years. But the
first question does obtrude itself, and I think
that we should resist the suggestion that the
posts listed in paragraph 8 of the despatch
must continue to remain the monopoly of
Cadets in the Hong Kong Civil Service.
From the general standpoint
of the unified Colonial Services, it is
wrong that the posts held by the Superintendent
of Imports and Exports, the Director of
General
Education, Postmaster/and the First Police
Magistrate should not be included in the Customs,
the Education, the Postal and the Legal Services
respectively, although conditions in Hong
Kong may necessitate that for the present they
should be manned by Administrative Officers.
I note that it is already contemplated that
the last three posts should be filled by
technically qualified officers who will be
members of their respective services.
The Governor's arguments
in paragraphs 3 and 4 are, as Mr.Rogers
suggests, not very impressive, and they are
not
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obviously