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INWARD TELEGRAM.
TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES.
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COPY FOR REGISTRATION
FROM HONG KONG (Sir. A. Granthan)
D. 8th December 1949. R. 8th
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No. 1313 Confidential.
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Your confidential telegram No. 1599.
Public Services Commission.
I appreciate difficulty which you have raised in regard to senior promotion posts and before I give you a definite answer I wish to obtain views of the Executive Council.
2. Before I consult them, however, I should be grateful to learn if there would be any objection on your part to incorporation of a clause in the regulations to be made under the bill limiting exclusione from the Public Services Cozisofon's purring to the following:-
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(&) Julge (ace your telegram No. 1562)
(b) All posts carrying or officio uebership of Executive on Degislative Councils
(c) Class X cadets
(a) All major Heads of Departments
(e) Police (nee paragraph 3 belor).
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£1650-1800 (an
This would, of coureo, leave a number of super sonte posta which are currered by Colonial Regulation Ho. 2% c*ill zithin purview of the Comdssion, Such posts would
be nažuly promotion postu of a specialist meture and ports of assistant or Deputy liesdn of Departo nó. It world, c course, bo nade aloar ki a public anzotrzopment at en appropriate Simo, that all. Hong Kong officers would be girsa full consideration by the Governor and by yourself when on ozclvist post was being filled and conversely that since final decision as to eppointment 12es viih you, you would have to give due consideration to claims of officme in other territories es well on to Hong Kong candidates when vasenging erose in any unexcuded Class I or Clasa 2 postB. basia, think in practice, little difficulty would arise.
On this
3. As regards p'oposal in pozagraph 2 (0) to sxolude all police appointments and promotions from consideration by the Ceniusion, I have reconsiderad cuse of police force since my letter of 16th June to Sir Thoms Lloyd and an how of the opinion that since polion force is a disciplined. body organised on quasi military lines it is preferable that Commission should not be asked to advise on any promotions or appolatnents therein,
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I shall be grateful-for your comments as soon as
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