CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4] — Page 437

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MR. COLLINS:

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The delay in dealing with this paper is due partly

to my being away from the Office, but mainly to the

difficulty of minuting a despatch with which I disagree

entirely on almost every possible point. It proceeds

on the assumption that the Secretary of State has

approved the proposals in 8521 for systematizing acting

appointments which he has not done. That fact alone

affects the proposals considerably, but a still more

important point is that in para. 3 Sir F. Lugard says

that "Cadets have in theory a preferential claim to legal

equally with other appointments". I knew that this view

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was held by the Cadet service, whom I believe to be

capable of advancing "claims" to act for the Almighty,

but I am astonished to find Sir F. Lugard endorsing it.

I am afraid that he is too much influenced by Mr.

Clementi.

I am not aware that it has ever been laid down that

Cadets have a preferential claim to any posts, except

those included in the 'Cadet Service.' The locus

classicus on this point is despatch No. 171 of 13th June 1902 (on pages 138 and seqq. of Eastern No. 79). That despatch laid down a classification for the Cadet Service, including a number of posts, to which Cadets had not previously been appointed as a rule but to which Mr.

Chamberlain considered that they should generally be

(Since then one appointed in future, if qualified.

or two new Cadets have been created, and the Police posts have been cut out but otherwise no change in

principle has been approved.) Therefore, the only posts not in the Cadet Service to which Cadets can be considered

to