CO129-212 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [10-11] — Page 362

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of which then now have virtually the principal share. But most

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of long experience in Colonial affairs will agree

with me that it is unwise to lay

down any hard and fast rule as

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the exclusive appointment of either

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to

Civil or Military Administrators. From

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the statements made in the Colonial

Office despatch No.11.174 it seems that a former Secretary of State, considered it best to give provisional vacancies to members of the ordinary Colonial Civil

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Service, with the object that future

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Governors might be chosen from among

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them by actual experiment. It should,

I submit, be borne in mind, that these "experiments", if too exclusively tried, may,

while developing the latent administrative talents of Gaolers and Police officers, not improbably deprive the Crown and the Colonies of the services of a Lord Wolseley, of a Sir William Verner (should be "Wervois" but most likely is referring to "Sir William Verner" is not found, a possible person is "William Warre, 1st Baron de Freyne" or more likely "William Wervois" is an error and the correct is "William Verner"), of a Sir Andrew Clarke, and of other Military Governors of

the first class.

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To recapitulate - I would repeat that arguments in favour of the exclusion and isolation of officers

Commanding Her Majesty's Troops

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