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A SINGLE CÒLONIAL SERVÍCE.

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A Uniform Method of Entry/

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(a) All officers of the "Com- missioned ranks" with 8 or more years' service;

service. In any case we deprecate' though, at the same time, some Governor of any of the larger any extension of the system of en- speakers expressed the doubt whe- Colonies to require him to submit trance by examination without her the imposition of the liability confidential reports to the Secretary selection:

was practicable or desirable.

of State on all his officers. Compulsory Transfer.

It was also generally agreed that! We recommend, therefore, that As regards the third obstacle, we any scheme for unification must bo Governors should be required to have given careful consideration to framed with due regard to the submit confidential reports annually' the question whether the liability of necessity of maintaining the execu on: compulsory. transfor is an essential tive authority of the local Govern- feature of the scheme. The view, ment over its citipers and to the in- has been expressed that it would act teresis of the officers concerned. as a deterrent to recruiting, that it) The results of the discussion ip-) (b) offers drawing £720 a year would not in practice be exercised, dicated that the Conference was salary or more: Probably the most important and by him to the Colonial Ser- and, therefore, that it is not desir generally in favour of unification of (c) the Heads of minor Depart- far-reaching of the many subjects vice and secondarily assigned to the able to impose it. We agree that in the Services, but felt that the diffiments who do not fall under either diseased at the recent Colonial particular post and Colony, being practice, anve in rare and, special culties in the way of giving effect to of the above catégories; Office Conference was the proposal | given, as at present, à letter of circumstances, an officer would not the policy were real and would have. (d) those who apply or are fitted for the unification of the Colonial appointment by the Governor. We be transferred from one Colony to to be met before the Governments for promotion otherwise than in Services.

are aware of no reason why a pro-another against his will, and that, could commit themselves to the ac- The official summary of the Cannouncement on these lines should from the point of view of recruit-, 'ceptance of any concrete scheme.

ment, it is more important to em- It was therefore agreed that the ference proceedlings, a copy of which not at once be made. arrived in Singapore by the last

phasise the privilege of promotion recommendations at the end of the report mail, gives the text of the report of

by transfer than the liability to Warren Fisher Committee the committee appointed by the

transfer without promotion.

should be adopted and that a com- mittee should be appointed to con- Conference to consider the recom- mendations, in this connection, em-

sider the difficulties in detail and to bedied in the Warren Fisher report

make proposals for meeting them. -a full summary of which appeared in the Straits Times some weeks

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We agree with the Warren Fisher Committee that such pronouncement by itself would have an appreciable effect on the prestige of the Service and would carry with it important advantages, particularly in the mat- ter of recruiting, but unless some- thing further is, done to translate the principle into action, the chief benefits which are to be anticipated from the unification of the Services

will not be realised.

an attempt should at once be-made |

Locally Recruited Officers. We hope that we have said enough

their own Departments, whether in the Colony or elsewhere; and all officers on the active list of the Army seconded for employment in the Colony, on whom reports are not made to the War Department direct.

A Personal Record Form. We concur in the suggestion made by the Colonial Office that

The Conference Resolution.

(a) the existing form of applica- The following resolution was action should be abolished; cordingly unanimously adopted: (b) when each offeer reaches

"This Conference considers un that period in his

career when

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At the same time, we do not regard the existence of this liability as inherent in the scheme of unifica- recommend that the tion, and we condition should be imposed upon entrants to the "Colonial Service." The following is the text of the

An officer of the unified service)

THE the Colonial Services annual confidential reports begin to report of the committee appointed

should not, however, be compulsorily fention of by the Colonini Office Conference.

transferred without prior consulta desirable if a generally acceptable be rendered on him, he should fill up The Committee on the system of

We have been impressed by the tion with the Colonial Governments scheme can be devised, and requests a "personal record form, which appointment in the Catanial Office remarks of the Warren Fisher Com-concerned, and, except in cases of the Secretary of State to appoint a would resemble the present applica- and Colonial Survice recommends mittee. recording the importance, disciplinary action, compulsion committee to prepare a detailed tion for promotion, and would pro- that:

from the point of view of attract should not be applicable when an scheme for submission to the several vide for full particulars being given A single Colonial Service should in the best type of candidate for officer, on such compulsory transier. Colonial Governments."

of his education, employment before be created and within this larger service in the Colonies, of offering would be adversely affected na re-

Other Recommendations. | entering the Government service, to- whole unified special services should him the prospect of becoming a gurds either his emoluments or his

The committee (whose report on gether with, in the case of technical be organised with the necessary member of a wide world, service pensioa rights.. In computing the a single Colonial Service appears and professional officers,, details of degree of assimilation of the terms responsible for the administration value of his emoluments, such con- above) also presented a special re- their qualifications and experience. of service in the separate Dopen of an area of 2.000.000 square miles ditions of service as the provision port in which certain observations The officer would also be invited to

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with a nonulation of nearly 50,000,- of free quarters or house allowance, on other recommendations of the state whether he wished to be con- Leather Sole Canvas Shoes ...$ 4.50 HAIR DRESSERS & BOOKSELLERS We should like. in the first place,, 000, and with almost unlimited on-passages on leave or 'transfer, and Warren Fisher Committee were sidered as a candidate for transfer Crepe Rubber Sole Canvas Shoes $ 5,00 Crepe Rubber Buckskin Shoes $10.00 in put on record sur sense of the portunities for "seeing the world." salary on leave' should be taken into offered.

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LEE YEE, obligation under which Sir Warren We therefore consider it essential, consideration.

The following are some of the dency in which he is sorving, and,Black or Brown Boots fam..$ 8.0 Fisher and his committee have laid that the first ateo having been taken,

more important of those observa- If so, to indicate any special wishes, Children's Boats or Shoes from $2.00 Colonial Governments by the care

tions:

he might have regarding the nature

Best styles. most complete atack of all sizes. Repairing a specialty. and attention which they have de Don the next objective, namely, the to show that the difficulties of put- We entirely agree that, in the case of work preferred, and places to

WONG SIU WOON voted to the problems before them, removal of obstacles in the way of ting into practice a scheme of of all appointments now made which he would not be willing to go. and more particularly to the vital the real and practical unification of unification of the kind advocated by through the machinery of the Fri-

Phone 21474. We understand that, in certain 21, Pottinger St. question of the "rationalisation" of the services.

the Warren Fisher Committee are vate Secretary (Appointments), the Colonies, departmental confidential the Colonial Services. They have Obstacles to Practical Unification, not insuperable. It will be under- Appointments staff should cense to reports on the more junior officers brought a new conception before

These obstacles may be summaria-stood that we are considering such be in the position of Private Secre- are recorded in the Secretariat. the minds of those concerned withed as follows:-

a acheme only in relation to "the taries, and the Appointments Where auch reports exist, we con- the development of the Colonial (1) The diversity of salaries, personnel normally recruited in this Branch should be incorporated insider that it might be of advantage Empire.

terms of service, climatic and other country," and then primarily to the Colonial Office as a permanent if copies of them were sent home to what we may term the "commnsion- part of the Personnel Division of the Colonial Office by the Secretariat The proposal that the Services

ed ranks" of the service.

the Office.

as a matter of routine, though, in should be unified is not new; but

Officers of a kind "ordinarily re- We agree with the proposal for such casés, they would not pass in the past there has been a ten-

cruited locally" would remain mom- the creation of a Colonial Service through the Governor. We do not,

and dency to look first at the difficulties

Board, bers of the local administration, and Appointments

we however, wish to throw any addi and to conclude that until they are (3) The absence of any power of would have neither an obligation nor think it important that one tional burden on the Colonial Gov- aurmounted progress towards uni- compulsory transfer by the Secre- a claim to serve outside the country member of this Board should ernments, and we do not wish to fication is impracticable. The com- tary of State.

of their domicile. Subject to the have had recent. experience recommend the preparation of such The first of these obstacles is overriding consideration of the of service In mittee have not made light of the

the Colonies. reports where they are not normally difficulties; they have, however, perhaps the most serious. But we public interest, they would have full We would suggest that the Secretary furnished already. made the fruitful suggestion that if are again indebted to the Warren scope for promotion within the ser- of State for the Colonies should be Fisher Committee for the conception vice of their own Colony, and, those consulted as regards the appoint- of proceeding..to unification service who so desired and who were re-ment of this member. the essential unity of the Services, by service "within the larger whole" garded by the Secretary of State as We understand, in this connection, much to be gained, from the point of many of the difficulties would at instead of region by region. The in all respecta suitable for general that it has been once lose much of their force, and most urgent need for unification is Colonial service, could be considered some cases, in selecting candidates Service and for other reasons, if a it would be possible to proceed as, experienced in regard to the tech- in due course as members of the for appointment to gradually as the circumstances of nical services, and force of circum- unified service and available for the case might render necessary stances has already, in the case of transfer."

Proposal Not New.

a beginning were made by a mere

recognition, however nominal, of

the principle thus adopted.

conditions.

(2) The existence of different methods of entry for appointments of the same order in different Dependencies.

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A Colonial Service List.

We consider that there would be

the practice, in view of the prestige of the Colonial

We think that the arguments for the reorganisation of the existing Promotions Committee on a smaller scale are deserving of serious con- aideration.

:

a particular complete Colonial Service List could Colony, to call in the assistance of be prepared annually, in which off- an officer on leave from the Colony cers would be shown according to towards the practical realisation of the agricultural service, brought It must clearly be assumed that in question. We consider that this their position in the Colonial Service generally, not by individual about fairly general agreement to a any scheme of unification will be practice is most valuable; wa Bug- It was clear from the discussion complete scheme of unification.

worked with due regard to practical gest that it might be extended Colonles. We realise, however, that at the plenary meeting of the Con- This scheme, when it comes into considerations, and there is no pos- wherever practicable, and we en- it may not be practicable to prepare ference that some representatives being, will doubtless provide a model aible ground for supposing that the dorse the Committee's recommenda-such s list until the working of the were until disposed to take the view for the unification of other scientific result of adoption of such a scheme tion that a panel of carefully-chosen proposed unified Service has become that, until certain fundamental dif- services such as the medical, fores- would be that Colonial Governments officers should be formed from whom more developed. ficulties had been surmounted, the try, and veterinary services. The would have folated upon them by the one or more could he selected from question of unification must remain unification of these services, as it Secretary of State. persons who were time to time during their leave.. in abeyance. For our part, we are proceeds, is bound to have a simpli- manifestly unsuited to the particu- We agree that the Promotions dlaposed to accept the less pessimisfying and co-ordinating effect upon lar circumstances of the Colony In Branch of the Colonial Office should tic conclusion of the Warren Fisher the conditions of service of other question.

be developed as a section of the

The Selection of Governors, Committee. In this connection we officers in the Dependencies concern- Recalcitrant Governments. proposed Personnel Division, and attach great weight to the argumented, since Colonial Governments will

In due course, as progress is made we are impressed with the necessity We strongly endorse the recom- put forward by the committee that, presumably not desire to undergo towards practical unification of the of obtaining and recording, in the mendation that, in the selection as time goes on, the difficulties of the inconvenience of having differ services, it will no doubt be found Colonial Office, as complete a record of Governors, prior consideration unification will increase, and we feel ent sets of conditions applicable to that any Colonial Governments as possible of the services and quali- should be given to the suitability of strongly that if some definite move the members of the closely unified which fall adapt the principles fications of officers in the Colonial officers holding high posts in the in this direction is not taken in the services and to the rest of their suggested in this report, as regards | Service. **

Colonial Services, and indeed, we immediate future It 'le at least pos- officers respectively.

aalaries and conditions of service, Confidential Reports.

consider that nothing would be more sible that the opportunity for doing We envisage an ultimate state of will find themselves unable to main We have given some attention to calculated to render the proposed so will be irretrievably lost. affairs in which the non-technical, tain a satisfactory standard of the question of the preparation and unified Service attractive to entranta

Dislocation Unlikely.... as well as the technical, branches of quality in persons recruited for the submission of annual confidential and to raise its prestige. In our opinion the Colonial Ser- the Colonial Service will be graded superior staff either on first appoint-reports. We agree that there is no We agree that, in general, the

that the ment or on transfer. vices are, in practice, already to in some sort of way so

justification for such delay in the scales in the long Salary Scale sys- such an extent a unit that recogni- "real wages" (taking into account Where it is a question of lack of rendition of the reports as the tem should be prolonged up to tion of the principle of a single ser- climate, pension and leave pri-means, we are confident that some! (Warren Fisher) committee refer- $1,000 in cases where, at present, vice carries with it little, if any, vileges, amenities, and cost of plan will be devised which will pro-red to, but we think that the lack they stop short of this round figure departure from the existing state of living) in corresponding grades in test auch dependencies from being of uniformity as regards the class by a small margin..

different Colonies will have some cut off. But where a Government of officers reported upon may have We agree, in principle, that above

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The great majority of the officers approximation to each other; but we stands out not from genuine lack of been due to a lack of uniformity in some middle point in the scale a of the various services already serve visualise this as coming gradually, ability but from the refusal of the the instructions which have been number of posts of suitable import- under the same general code, of and as a natural result of the forces local legislature to face the facts of received from the Colonial Office ance should be designed as Higher- regulations laid down by the Secre- now being put in motion, rather the altuation, we can only say that from time to time, and we consider Grade poste, to be filled by selection tary of State; their appointments, than as being imposed upon it is far better that such a Govern- that it would be most helpful if on the ecle basis of merit, though salaries, pensions, discipline, and Colonial

against ment should be left to the conse these could be made. more. detailed we are in some doubt whether the We have not, there- quences of its self-imposed isolation and more, uniform.

creation of such posts is practicable, conditions of service, while imme their wille. diately promulgated by the Govern- fore, attempted in this report to than

ton-co-operation We consider that new forms of since in the administrative service ments under which they serve, are draw up a scheme of unification for should be allowed to hamper the confidential reports, suitable to the officers are not generally assigned generally subject to the controlling the non-technical services.

development of the rest.

needs of the different Departments, to specific poste. In the authority of the Secretary of State, A Uniform Method of Entry. We therefore unhesitatingly re-might be devised and that all such stances we think it might be more which may be exercised to a greateri The second obstacle applles only commend that the principles laid forms should contain specific head-practicable to attain the desired end of specially selected or less degree according to circum-to a limited class of appointments, down in the Warren Fisher Comings for Heads of Departments to in the case stances; they have the right of ap but we cannot help regarding it as mittee's report should be accepted; fill in as well as a space for a report officers by granting them accelerated peal to the Secretary of State one of special importance. We that the Secretary of State should, in general terms by them. The increments in the time scale coupled against decisions of the local Gov- refer, of course, in particular to the announce forthwith a decision that, Governor would still report in gen with a corresponding advance in the duty than la customary at present ernments; and their opportunities fact that, whereas the administra in future, the services will be re-eral terms. We hope that the pro- seniority test. The application of should be adopted in the case of for promotion, not only in the tive appointments in the African! garded as one Service and that posed Personnel Division of the this principle might, we suggest, be officers of the Colonial Service who, sentor ranks, are not restricted to group of Colonies are filled by selec- steps should be taken to appoint a Colonial Office will be able to give worked out by the committee which are temporarily attached to the their own Colonies but extend over tion and nomination, those in the fresh committee "to draw up a comits attention to the e preparation of proposed should deal with the should be developed that the system

a details of a unified Service.

to permit of the the whole field of the Colonial Emother. Important group and Eastern plete and detailed scheme for each such forms.

attachment of senior as well as branch of the Service, together with We have considered the question

Study Leave, Etc. Thus it may fairly be said that are filled by competitive exam the general and special regulations whether adverso-confidential reporta

junior officers, and an fncrease In We agree that every encourage the number of officers concerned the conditions precedent to the recognition of a single Colonial sert'our view this state of allairs which would be required to bring should be imparted to the officer ment should be given to the develop We understand that the system of concerned. We consider that such ment of arrangements for study secondment for a longer period (two vice do in fact obtain; and that must, so long as it persists, retard the new policy into effect.

the renilsation of the full benefits of The Report Discussed. reports should not be shown to the leave, provided that the circum indeed it is the nominal isolation of unification. We are award of no This report was fully discussed at officer, except on the orders of the stances of a Colony permit. We Years) has, in fact, already been

brought into force. the separate services, rather than sound reason why a uniform method two plenary meetings of the Colonial Governor, but that the substance of would point out, however, that the

We 'sgres. that members of the their association, which is not in of outry should not be prescribed Office Conference,

sich reports should be compriment frequent de Colony Shalataining Administrative staff of the Colonial accordance with existing facts for the Colonial Administrative After Bir Willian Gowers (the led by the head of the Department volves each

Colonies, Will Have No Say.

| Service") and we tentatively suggest chairman of the committee) had to the officer where they relate to a considerably larger staff than a Office who are afforded an oppor- that the lies on which the future Introduced the report, a discussion auch faults or shortcomings as it reckoning based on normal leave and tunity of gaining oversens experi« method should be based might be ensued in the course of which may be in the officer's power to casualty requirements would fus-ence early in their career should be given opportunities subsequentie of those whk we have aketched in various representatives spoke in amend,

tify. and report in connection with favour of the unification, of the Ber Senior Officers Only.

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The Conference passed a resolu- serious,and compulsory transfer was discussed cars of the Colonial Services should Administrative staff, and we believe

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