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will not at some stage require the assistance of a senior administrative

officer on secondment for advice on special duties and it may be

found advantageous from time to time to attach a junior cadet to

the Municipal Secretariat to gain useful experience.

necessary to assign more officers to the administration of the leased

territories which, apart from the complex property questions left

behind by the Japanese, has also, for reasons with which I need not

burden this despatch, acquired since the re-occupation a new political

flavour. It appears more than likely that the establishment will

crystallize at a figure considerably in excess of thirty posts, but

since, as indicated in paragraph 8 of this despatch it is proposed

to take several years to build up to the optimum figure, I consider

it advisable for the present to leave a safe margin for future

recalculation. I therefore request approval for the increase of the

total Cadet Establishment to a figure which will cover the minimum

requirement of thirty operative posts together with the necessary

leave replacements for

leave replacements for these thirty posts and for seven other posts 4 lean reserve

for Men for ""

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for which no leave replacements are provided under any other estab-

lishment and which therefore fall to be filled by Cadet Officers

during the absence on leave of their substantive holders. Details

of the latter seven posts are given in the second schedule to

Enclosure 2. The total establishment required for this purpose is

-sup..2 7 End. 48, an increase of 13. Pending the receipt of the Salaries Commission's

report, I am assuming that the whole of this increase will be in

Class II.

6.

The immediate needs of the period following the re-

establishment of civil administration were met, as you are aware, by

recalling officers from repatriation leave for a short tour of duty,

thus in effect utilizing for a brief period the whole of the already

inadequate leave reserve provided by the present establishment.

benefits of this short term policy were bound to be of limited duration,

and since it has been found impossible to reduce commitments to the

*. icport recent (hore,75) "he proti of increasing on no.

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