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Enclosure in No. 57.

The SECRETary of StaTE to the GoVĚRNOR.

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9. I shall no doubt hear further from you as to the details of your proposal and as to the additional increase of establishment which you foreshadow for next year. In the meantime I approve, as a tentative measure, of your proceeding as you propose in the 4th paragraph of your despatch on the condition that no increase of expendi- ture on personal emoluments will be incurred either in the present year or for a staff not exceeding the present number in future, and also on the understanding that none of the men selected by you will be permanent and pensionable. ·

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do not consider it necessary to refer in detail to Mr. Townsend's remarks as to the selection of computers and draughtsmen. His views will be carefully borne in mind, but I am not aware that serious objection has been raised as to the capacity of the draughtsmen sent out, while, as regards the computers, the staff is now complete, and the necessity for further appointments may not arise.

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I have, &c.,

EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE.

*TREASURY to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received January 4, 1912.) [Answered by No. 60.]

Treasury Chambers, 3rd January, 1912. I HAVE laid before the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury Sir G Fiddes's letter of the 22nd ultimo (40142/1911),* and the accompanying copy of s despatch which has been received from the Governor of the East Africa Protectorate on the subject of the selection of surveyors for service in that Protectorate, together with a draft of the reply which Mr. Secretary Harcourt proposes to send to the Governor.

In reply, I am to state that my Lords see very serious objection to giving Sir P. Girouard the permission for which he asks to offer to surveyors from the self-govern- The ing Dominions such terms as may be necessary to attract experienced men. acknowledged intention of this proposal is to increase, where necessary, the present rates of personal remuneration, and my Lords consider that whatever the immediate result of such a system might be it cannot fail ultimately, by introducing a class of more highly paid officials to work side by side with the existing staff, to raise the standard of personal emoluments throughout the Survey Department, and thus to throw an additional burden of recurrent expenditure upon the Protectorate.

My Lords are not acquainted with the measures adopted for recruiting candi- dates for the Survey Department in East Africa, but they gather from the terms of the draft reply that the present system can hardly be said yet to have had a fair trial, and they are not without hopes that on further experience it may prove practicable to maintain existing arrangements.

Even if, however, an increase of expenditure is shown to be inevitable, my Lords would still be opposed, on grounds of financial control, to a scheme of selection under which the rates of salary payable to successful candidates were not definitely fixed and published beforehand according to the ascertained requirements of the posts to be filled, but were varied at the discretion of the Governor to meet the demands of particular applicants.

The Secretary of State will, no doubt, recognise how far removed such a system would be from the practice which obtains in fully established Departments in this

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