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vacancies in the technical, professional
and clerical services should be first
referred to the Public Services Commission,
and should be referred home only if no
suitable local candidates are found for them.
But it seems to
Hong Kong, this
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The partinder airs you us that, in a colony like duch as may be an undesirable rule would be dangerous doctrine-
to apply to the Administrative Service,
the case
and possibly also to the police. In respect--
of a Colony which has a real prospect of
becoming a self-governing entity, the principles (aid down
may sightly be applied
Colonial No.197 apply to the Administrative
Service as well as to the technical and
wras Hong Kong is concerned, its
the
professional services. But Hong Kong who nof
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such prospect, Ite only prospect of remaining
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a separate entity and avoiding absorption
into China would seem te lies in maintaining a
strong British Administration -ize—an
Administration, in which most of the key
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administrative posts are filled by Europeans.
This would not exclude the possibility of
suitably qualified Chinese British subjects
being admitted to the Administrative Service
in Hong Kong, but it does seem to us that the antinuang
days of British Administration in Hong Kong
prejudiced
be numbered if there were more than a
leavening
might well
small levelling of Chinese in the Administrative
Service.
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If all vacancies in the Public Service of
Hong Kong were to be first referred to the
On the alter hand,
may feel that there
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