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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
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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
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