Colonial Office Ref: 54265/2/47
No: 4068/46
COLONIAL SECRETARIAT,
LOWER ALBERT ROAD,
HON KONG
3rd February, 1948.
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The Whitin
My dear Mayle,
J
Thank you for your letter of 7th November, 1947, about the establishment of Administrative Officers in this Colony, which has given us all a lot of thought. I am very grateful to you for giving the thing so much thought.
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We note your feeling that the Treasury are unlikely to respond favourably to the proposals in the Governor's Staff Despatch No. 107 of 1947 and have therefore gone carefully into the matter again to see whether it would be possible to put un modified proposals in a form which the Treasury might find acceptable. We have come to the conclusion that we shall have to stand by our basic require- ments as reported in the despatch, but you will have observed that it was not there proposed that the posts asked for should be filled immediately. In fact we did not envisare filling them all for another five years or so. Could you therefore leave the despatch on your file to take up when you consider the occasion more propitious, and for the time being meet our immediate needs as suggested in para- graph 6 of your letter?
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A despatch will be going off by this mail reporting the re- signation of D. J. L. McWhirter and requesting that an officer he recruited in his stead. This vacency can, if you like, be used to cover one of the three postwar ex-I.C.S. officers whom we have already asked you to recruit and that would leave us square with our establishment for the time being.
Legane
Our immediate problem this summer has been solved by the rublic-spirited action of R. R. Todd and H. J. Cruttwell who have voluntarily deferred their leave to 1949. By that time Megarry's retirement will have taken effect.
ए My suggestion therefore is that despatch No. 107, though it accurately reflects our actual requirements, should remain in cold
N. L. Mayle, Esq.,
Colonial Office, Church House,
Great Smith Street,
LONDON, S.W. 1.
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