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are usually appointed in the Colony itself, and presumably taken from the inhabitants of the Colony. Roughly speaking the Return shows this: the "chief" are those who are appointed direct by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and who are either sent out from England or vice, and in Mauritius, I promoted from other posts in the Colonial Service; doubt whether there are the "subordinates are those who are appointed half a dozen who are not in the Colonies by the Governors. The salaries Mauritians.-R. L. A. differ so widely in different Colonies that some who might conceivably be Exactly. It shows rather times a 'chief"
office in a small Colony is one appointed from England, that is never filled up from home. Similarly &c.—C. A. H. "subordinate officers in big Colonies have salaries considerably larger than "chief" officers in smaller Colonies. With the few exceptions, which are specially notified, the salaries of all these officers are paid out of the revenues of the Colony in which they serve. So far as direct appointments by the Colonial Office are concerned, the appointments are made on the simple nomina- tion of the Secretary of State, and without any preliminary examination, except in the case of the Eastern Colonies, Ceylon, Straits Settlements, and Hong Kong, where the entrance to the chief civilian offices in the Service is at present by competitive examination under the Civil Service Commission.
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Civil Service.
Governors and Administrators.
Legal. Medical, Engineers.
Specialists. Grand Total.
Chief. Subordinate.
3 310 447
171
and
434 1,696 (These include 178 Police.)
156
3,256
11
28
Military
Self governing Colonies,—
Canada, Australia
New Zealand, Cape, &c. Ordinary Colonial Service
appointments
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Total
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42
5
These four men were all seek for a suitable man to appoint from outside the old servants of the Crown, ranks of the Colonial Service. When, in a critical though in other branches
of the Imperial Service. and important state of affairs in British Guiana, you had to find a new Governor, you had to come
F. R. R.
Sir H. Robinson and to the Colonial Office. When you wanted a British Sir H. Loch, the two last Agent for Pretoria, you had to go to the Foreign High Commissioners, were Office. If you wanted a new High Commissioner "trained" in Australia for for South Africa, could you find one in the ranks
the work of governing a
"responsible" Colony, in of the Colonial Service? When you sent a fresh addition to their previous Governor to Newfoundland, to deal with the very administrative experience, remarkable state of affairs that had there arisen, Australia, under the present you had to have recourse to a retired officer of the system of appointing peers British Civil Service. Therefore the Colonial Ser- as Governors, is no longer
H. W. J.
such a training ground. vice cannot be said to be self-sufficing in the way that the Indian Civil Service may be said to be. But, is it desirable that it This leads me to a comparison of the size of the should be ?—F. R. R. Indian Civil Service with that of the Colonial Civil How many Governors Service. The figures of the latter I have already given. The figures of the former I am now able pointed from the Indian to give, owing to the courtesy of Sir Arthur Civil Service?-E. W.
General or Governors of Presidencies have been ap-
of Madras is a man who has
Godley.
But the present Governor The Governments of Madras and Bombay are by risen from a small Colonial custom filled from the ranks of distinguished pub- appointment through many
lie men at home, just as the Governor-General of Colonial appointments to Canada and the Governors of the chief Australian that position.-R. L. A. Colonies would probably be filled under any system
of recruiting the Colonial Civil Service..........
Is he always the best man possible ?-F. R. R.
The head officials of the Indian Civil Service, who may be fairly compared to Colonial Governors, can always be found within the ranks of the Indian Civil Service itself, and it is no exaggeration to say that to such a pitch of excellence has that Service reached that they always have available for any emergency a man competent* to deal with it.
ANALYSIS OF INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE.
Governors, Lieutenant-Governors, Chief Commissioners, and, Members of Council
Medical
Engineers (excluding railways)
The Covenanted Service (Civil and Legal) which may be compared with the "chief" appointments of the Colonial Service, about
Longo intervallo.—R. L. A.
Police
D
...
12 650*
611
900 280
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140
2,593
Corresponding numbers Specialists-Educational and other, about
of Colonial Civil Service. --8. 1,560.-S.
The salaries of the Governors and Adminis trators vary from £500 to £6,000 per annum, excluding Canada, New South Wales, and Victoria, and the combined office of Governor of the Cape Colony and of High Commissioner for South Africa, in which cases the salary is still higher. The salaries of the Civil Service range (roughly speaking), in the case of the "Chiefs," from £300 to £1,500, and in the case of the “subordinates," from £50 to £500 per annum.
The first question which arises from this survey is-Is the general result of this system satis- factory? To me it seems that it is and it is not. It is, in so far that, speaking generally, the sub- ordinate staff of the various Colonies is efficient and does its work well, but I cannot say the same of the Governors; that is to say, while there are în the Service able men and excellent Governors, there are too many of whom these qualities could not be predicated. The result is that, whenever any special emergency has arisen, you have had to
1,696.-S.
Total
The Indian Uncovenanted Service, the numbers of which I have not been able exactly to ascertain, but which must be very considerable, may be com- pared to the "subordinate” appointments of the Colonial Service.
It is not quite easy to compare the salaries of the Indian Civil Service with those of the Colonial Civil Service. If, however, the Governors, Chief Commissioners of Provinces, and Members of Council (civilian) be classified with Colonial Governors, we nnd that the salaries of these range from Rs. 50,000 per annum to Rs. 120,000 per
• Now reduced to
annuin, whereas the salaries of Colonial Govern- ments, open to the Service at large, range from £500 per annum to £6,000* (Jamaica), with Rs. 80,000 for Ceylon, and £8,000 for the Governor £5,000.—A. A. P. of the Cape and High Commissioner. There are altogether 29 such Governments, counting these two, and not counting those of the other self- governing Colonies, but only 12 of them have salaries over £2,500 and only three over £5,000,
In the Indian Covenanted Service, out of the 900 civilian appointments, no fewer than 561 have salaries of Rs. 10,000 per annum and upwards- going up to Rs. 61,440 per annum, and the salaries under Rs. 10,000 per annum go no lower than Rs. 4,800 per annum.
This whole class of the Indian Civil Service, con- taining, say, 900 appointments, really compares with our “chief” division of the Civil Service with 43 i offices (including Police Officers) at salaries ranging from £300 per annum to £1,500, with very few appointments over £1,000 a year.
Converting the Rupee at 1/6. which for purposes of comparison I think we may fairly do, looking to the relative cost of living in the Colonies, we get such a table as follows:-
APPOINTMENTS OPEN TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE CIVIL SERVICES
(Rupees to Stg. og 16.)
Governor' Rank.
Below Governor's Rank.
£
€
Salaries ..? 500
+ 2,500 5,000
+
Superior Class.
Subordinate Class.
to
to
to
Above 600
£30 to £1,500.
£50-500.
2,500 5,000
6,000
Colonies
17
(Including Police) 434
(Including Police) 1,696
India
2
7
3
£360-750 | £750–4,160
437
561
The figures given above show that a comparison between the two services is not an easy or exact one, either as regards numbers or remuneration, and that the Indian Service offers better prospects than the Colonial, but the importance of the ques. tion is enhanced by the fact that within the next few years the work of the Colonial Office and the numbers of the. Colonial Civil Service must be largely increased by the transfer from the Foreign Office to the Colonial Office of the responsibility for British territory in Eastern and Central Africa and in the region of the Niger.
The alternatives that lie before any Secretary of State for the Colonies as regards the future of the Colonial Civil Service are :
(1) to take the Service a whole with an entrance
Uncovenanted Service Numbers not ascer- tained-very consider- able.