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MR. ROUND.
I understand Lord Selborne to advocate that the 28 Colonial Governorships (exclusive of mili tary and self-governing colonies) and the 434 Chief ordinary Civil Service appointments in the Colonies other than under Responsible Government, should be combined into one close “ Colonial Service."
It is hardly necessary to dwell on the general objections to all close services, viz: (1) the diffi culty of bringing in outsiders, though really required, and (2) the tendency to give undue importance to the claims of seniority in the matter of promotion, almost all close services being grouped into ranks or classes, and the practice being almost universal of requiring a certain amount of service in each class or rank as a necessary qualification to promotion.
In both these respects our present system is extremely elastic; men like Lord Rosmead, Sir A. Havelock and Sir H. Balwer, who have proved their capacity for administration in comparatively insignificant appointments, can be pushed up rapid- ly into almost the highest class of Governments; and outsiders can, if necessary, be introduced at almost any point without interference with vested interests.
As Lord Selborne's draft scheme stands, it would appear to be contemplated that the lowest class of. this close Civil Service should be recruited solely by open competitive examinations; this would, exclude from the highest class those who have? entered, and must in large numbers still enter, the service of Colonial Governments in "special" capacities, including in the term special" those classified in Mr. Harris's tables under “Legal,”
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Medical," and Engineering," and also Police Officers, who, even in Colonies wherein there have been introduced competitive examinations, have generally been appointed after some military or semi-military service in the Colonies,
The table which I have had prepared of “Colonind Governors" classified by their antecedents, shews that selections from these classes have occasionally been singularly unfortunate; but I submit that a system that would have excluded from a general "Colonial Civil Service Sir A. Havelock, Sir M. Clarke, the late Col. Sandwith*, Sir W. Sendall, Would they have been Sir C. Bruce and others from the line of minor Colonial Governorships, would have been distinctly defective.
A poor instance.-S. O.
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It is difficult to draw any very positive con- clusion from the table in question, but to my mind ex-military men, who have when quartered in a Colony taken an interest in its civil population and Government (as the great majority of soldiers I admit do not do) and got temporary employment there, or who have been seconded for special Colonial service, whether of a purely civil or semi- military character, have on the average turned out ultimately as good all round administrators as those who have had only Civil Service, whether at home or in the Colonies. And from this point of
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