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No large business concern, no Army, no Navy,

could be entirely successfully administered in such manner. Why should a huge organization like the Colonial Civil Service be an

exception and be administered contrary to the principles that sound

organization dictates ?

I submit.- not in the interests of the Cadet

Class, to which I belong - but in the interest of organization which

always conduces to efficiency, that the Secretary of State.would do

well to draw on the Cadet Service of the Eastern Colonies to fill

.appointments throughout the Colonial Empire and should gradually

extend the system till a properly equipped and trained Colonial Civil

Service embracing the Colonial Office itself has been established.

If a beginning were made in introducing such

extended organization it would be an easy matter to find employment

for the able young Officers who have signed the Petition to the

Secretary of State, if stagnation supervenes.in Hongkong owing to the

appointments they complain of.

3rd. December, 1902.

(Sd.) F. B. May,

Colonial Secretary.