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Secretary of State.
24
January, 1948.
DRAFT. DESPATCH
HONG KONG
Your Reference........
sir,
NO.
CONFIDENTIAL.
(67) in 53723/47.
GOVERNOR.
Extract from
Conference of African
Governors A.G.C. No.4.
(5)
(4)
(
é Section D.EF
san: 11-21).
AGC Minutes 13.
FURTHER ACTION.
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I have etc. to refer to the
recommendation in Chapter 8 of the
Salaries Commission Report, enclosed
with your Confidential despatch No. 215
of the 12th September last that a
Public Service Commission should be
set up in the Colony, and to my
Confidential telegram No. 1965 of the
28th December last in which, in reply
to your Confidential telegram No. 1917
of the 19th December, I undertook to
address you further on the subject.
2. The establishment of Public
Service Commissions in the Colonies
generally for the purpose of advising
the Governor on the selection and
appointment of candidates in the Colony
to posts in the local service was
advocated by my predecessor in the
broad atatement of policy contained
in paragraph 21(xi) of Colonial
No. 197 "Organisation of the Colonial
Service". Since then I have had under
examination various aspects of the
application