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you would decide whether any definite plan should
be formulated in the Office for serious consideration.
Colonial Office,
5th November, 1896.
SELBORNE.
The approaching expansion of our West African establishments has now made this question, in my opinion, urgent, and Mr. Chamberlain has per- mitted me formally to raise it.
He has desired me further to add interrogatively two points of great importance for consideration.
1. Would it be possible to combine, or ally, the Colonial Civil Service with the Indian Civil Service ?
2. Is any constitutional combination, or inter- changeability, between the Colonial Civil Service and the Colonial Office (both of the future) possible?
My suggestion is that after this Memorandum has been minuted upon, a small departmental com. mittee should be appointed to formulate the question more exactly.
S.-20th July, 1898.
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* Omitting, Basutoland:
however,
Zululand (will probably be annexed to Natal):
British Bechuanaland
(now part of Cape Colony),
MEMORANDUM
AS TO
THE RETURNSs of Öffices withs The Patronage OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
The annexed summary of the separate returns for the Colonies gives the total numbers of offices under the heads indicated by Lord Selborne :-
Governors and Administrators, Legal. Medical,
Engineers.
Civil Service Chiefs,
Civil Service, Subordinates. Police.
Specialists.
The self-governing Colonies are omitted from the Return and so are all Governors and Ad- ministrators.
For the rest of the Colonies,* and Cyprus, the Return may be taken as approximately accurate in all its details; but complete exactitude could hardly be obtained without reference to each Particular Colony, at least as regards the officers
whom I have classed as civilians, and divided into "chief” and “subordinates," and I observe some lacuma as to subordinates which add to the imperfection of the Return.
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The offices assigned to one or other of these sub-divisions present two or three difficulties. The idea of the sub-division is to shew as far as possible how many officers are usually appointed from England, and how many are usually taken from the youth of the Colony, Quite roughly the Return does this; quite accurately it does not.
The salaries differ so widely in different Colonies that occasionally a "chief office in a small Colony is one that is never filled up from home. Similarly, many subordinate offices have salaries considerably larger than "chief" offices in smaller Colonies.
Neither custom of appointment nor salary is an aceturate test for the Return; and I have con- stantly used my own knowledge (or belief) in assigning a given office to one category or the other. Another man might make the arrange- ment differently.
In fact a principle of sub-division is needed, and Colonial Regulations 66-70 are not sufficient for the present purpose.
I have marked with an asterisk those Colonies (the Easteril) where entrance to the chief civilian offices in the Service is at present by a competitive examination under the Civil Service Commissioners.
I have also had put in italics, in a separate column, for convenience of reference, all the police inspectorships, though they are included in the return of civilian appointments.
6th August.
$632
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Bahamas
Barbados
Bermuda
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NUMBER OF COLONIAL 'APPOINTMENTS CLASSIFIED AS:-
Colony,
British Guiana
British Honduras
British New Guinea...
*Ceylon
Cyprus
Falkland Islands
Fiji
Gambia
Gibraltar
Gold Coast
"Hong Kong
Jamaica'
Turks Islands
Lagos ...