programme should be charged to C. D. & W. funds;
and that posts under C. D. & W. schemes will normally
be on contract terms, save where recruitment on
this basis would be impossible or cause hardship,
or the retention of the post on a permanent basis
after 1956 can be justified.
I further observe, however, that Harding's
letter to you No.19275/92/47 of the 18th June makes
the important reservation that further consultation
with the various Departments concerned of the Colonial
Office would be necessary before anything could be said about
the general application of these proposals to territories (other than the West Indian colonies) which are Treasury-
controlled. This consultation has not yet taken place,
and I cannot therefore commit myself one way or the other
in this letter in regard to the suggestion in your
letter that we should consider whether the post of
Registrar of Co-operatives should be charged to Hong Kong's
C. D. & W. allocation, or in regard to the implied suggestion
that we should consider whether the cost of the Development
Secretariat and its officers ought to be met, either in
whole or in part, by C. D. & W. monies. It is however
necessary that we should reply without further delay to
Sir Mark Young's staff despatch No. 43 of the 10th of March,
a copy of which was enclosed in my letter to you of the
5th of June, about the appointment of a Registrar of
Co-operatives, and I hope therefore that you will not
object to our sending off at once the despatch of which
the draft was also enclosed in my letter, on the
understanding that this will be without prejudice to an
eventual decision on the question of the source from which
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the