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that the balance of advantages

is in favour of entrusting

the Colony, in the absence of

the Governor, to a civil administrator

4. A letter addressed to the

War Office by the direction of my predecessor, Lord Carnarvon,

in 1866 states forcibly another consideration - the advantage of occasionally enabling

members of the permanent Colonial

Service to acquire experience in

and show any capacity they

may possess for the discharge of

the Governor's duties. The following

extract from it:-

He (Lord Carnarvon) is

not less sensible of the importance

to the Colonial Service of profiting by the opportunities which

provisional administrations afford for testing the qualifications and training the ability

of those men in the

grades of the

service below the rank

of Governor or Lieutenant Governor,

who may be presumed, but

have not yet been proved, to be

capable of rendering valuable

service to the Crown in an

administrative career."

"In illustration of the extent

to which the interests of the

Colony are involved in the

ascertainment and trial of

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424 7 that the balance of advantages is in favour of entrusting the Colony, in the absence of the Governor, to a civil administrator 4. A letter addressed to the War Office by the direction of my predecessor, Lord Carnarvon, in 1866 states forcibly another consideration - the advantage of occasionally enabling members of the permanent Colonial Service to acquire experience in and show any capacity they may possess for the discharge of the Governor's duties. The following extract from it:- He (Lord Carnarvon) is not less sensible of the importance to the Colonial Service of profiting by the opportunities which provisional administrations afford for testing the qualifications and training the ability of those men in the grades of the service below the rank of Governor or Lieutenant Governor, who may be presumed, but have not yet been proved, to be capable of rendering valuable service to the Crown in an administrative career." "In illustration of the extent to which the interests of the Colony are involved in the ascertainment and trial of
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424

7

that the balance of advantages

is in favour of entrusting

Surmument

the bolony in the absence of

: the Governor to a civil ad

ministrator

4. A letter addressed to the

War Office by the direction of my predecessor, Lord Carnarvon,

in 1866 states forcibly mother Consideration - the advantage of season for occasionally mabling

members of the permanent bolonial

Service to acquiri experience in

and show

any capacity they

discharge of

may possess for the Governor's

duties. The following

extract from it :-

خوشاد

an

He (Lord bamaroon) is

not less sensible of the importance

"to the Colonial Service of profit .

: ing by the opportunities which

" provisional administrations

• afford for testing the qualifi.

" cations and training the ability

grades

" of those men in the

of the

service below the rank

"of Governor or Lieutenant Governor,

who

may

be presumed, but

"have not yet been proved, to be

capable of rendering valuable

service to the Crown in

in ́an

4

administrative career."

"In illustration of the extent

to which the interests of the

" Colonis

are involved in the

ascertainment

trial

the

to

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