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Miscellaneous No. 214.
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REORGANIZATION OF THE COLONIAL OFFICE.
MEMORANDUM.
In the scheme for the re-arrangement of the staff of the Colonial Office it is laid down (1) that certain Standing Committees will be established, and (2) that the newly constituted General Department will deal with various matters common to all the Crown Colonies in addition to those at present dealt with by the Chief Clerk's Department.
The function of the Standing Committees will be to co-ordinate the work of the The four geographical "Divisions" composing the "Crown Colonies Department." Committees will comprise representatives of each Division, with Mr. Cox as Chairman, and it is not suggested that they will have the effect of relieving the Divisions of any work. On the other hand, the proposal tó transfer to the General Department any work which can conveniently and effectively be dealt with "generally" will, it is anticipated, afford a considerable amount of relief to the geographical Divisions.
It will be the duty of the head of each Division to refer papers to the appropriate Committee, or to the General Department, with such minutes by himself or his staff as he think necessary. Papers will not be referred to the Committees or the General Department by anyone except the head or acting head of a Division.
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The reports of the Committees will be sent to the head of the Division concerned, who will, in the usual way, either direct action to be taken at once or submit the report with his recommendations to the Assistant Under Secretary in charge of the Crown Colonies Department.
Papers. referred to the tieneral Department will not as a rule be sent back to the geographical Division but will be disposed of in the General Department or by the Assistant Under Secretary in charge of that Department.
Among the subjects which will be dealt with in the General Department are the following
Annual ( Blue Book) Reports (so far as necessary to secure uniformity).
Andlit (general questions relating to)..
Colonial Defence (L.F.'s).
Customs Management.
Education.
Hospitals.
Immigration (Coolie).
Pensions (computation of).
Merchant Shipping,
Periodical Returns (so far as necessary to secure uniformity).
Personal Questions.
Posts and Telegraplis (general questions).
Prisons.
Sanitation.
In connexion with the Committees the following allowances have been sanctioned
by the Treasury :—
(a) £100 a year to Mr. Harris and the same to Mr. Fiddes, but these allowances
are not to be continued to their successors.
(b) £50 a year to each of the two Second Class (Class I.) clerks who will first hold the posts of Secretaries to the Finance Committee and the Concessions Committee, but upon the understanding that these allowances will lapse on the promotion of the holders to First Class clerkships and will not be continued to their successors.
(c) £50 in lieu of overtime to the Clerk of the Patronage and Promotion
Committee.
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