CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4] — Page 440

think it well, keep down the number as far as possible).

(I am afraid that this minute is not very clear, as I am writing under considerable difficulties, but if the general lines of it are approved I can draft for consideration when I return on the 7th of June).

10.145

No.

(1390). W.20.024-26. 6000. 11,08. A.&E.W. (15,813).

18,912-27. 6000. 10/09.

(Intld.)

R.E.S.

1 June.

480.21.

Sir,

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Government House,

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Hongkong, 20th. April, 1911.

In my Confidential Despatch of 6th.

February, 1911, I informed you that I proposed in future to

avoid as far as possible the transfer of Officers nore

especially Heads of Departments from their own Department

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to act in another Department for an Officer on leave, and I

explained the reasons why in my opinion an opinion in

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which several of the senior Officers of the Administration

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whom I have consulted have concurred such a policy would

be to the great advantage of the Public Service.

2.

In order to give effect to this

scheme it is necessary to group together such Departments as

do not contain sufficient Officers to form a complete cycle,

admitting of the absence of one Officer on long leave. Mr.

C. Clementi, Acting Colonial Secretary, has prepared a

series of tables with an explanatory Memorandum on this

basis

RICHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P..

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