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which it is desirable to remove.

You

state in paragraph 3 that "Cadet Officers

have in theory a preferential claim to

legal equally with other appointments" and,

in paragraph 4, you speak of "the posts

to which under the conditions of their

appointment to the Service Cadets have or

!

should have preferential claims to act

(even if their claims to substantive

appointment cannot in all cases be

recognized}"

I am not aware that it has ever

been suggested before that Cadets have

a preferential claim to legal appoint-

ments, and I think it well to state at

once that I cannot recognize the existence of

any such claim.

In paragraph 8 of his despatch

Chamberlain gave a list of the appointments

which were to be regarded as belonging to

the Cadet Service, including a number of

posts which had not previously as a rule

been held by Cadet Officers but to which he

considered that they should generally be

appointed in future, if qualified.

That

list has since been modified by the excision

of the Police appointments and by the

addition of some newly created posts in the

Cadet service, but so far as I am aware no

change in the general principle has been

approved or even suggested.

Therefore,

the only posts to which Cadet Officers can

be considered as having a "preferential

claim" are those marked with an asterisk in

paragraph 8 of Mr. Chamberlain's despatch

and even in those cases the extent to which

No. 171 of the 13th of June 1902,

Mr.

Chamberlain

preference will be given to Cadet Officers

is limited in two respects (a) Cadet

Officere must be qualified for appointment,

and