CO129-509-13 Pay and conditions of service of private secretary and aide-de-camp to Governor 3-2-1928 - 11-12-1928 — Page 5

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new to me.

Mr. Beckett's theory is quite

The supposition on which, at

any rate in West Africa, we have always proceeded, has been that the money provided

for a Private Secretary and A.D.C. to the

Covernor is appropriated to the salary of

the officer (or those officers) whom the

Governor appoints to that post, and that when the Governor goes on leave, the normal course

is for that officer (or those officers) to go

on leave witn him. The 0.A.G. is left to

make the best arrangements he can, and, as a

rule, he borrows one of the local Service,

frequently, I think, a subaltern from the

W.A.F.F. but as the 0.A.G. is not expected to

do as much entertaining as the Governor, 1 dare say he does not require anybody's regular attendance. But I seem to remember

that in Ceylon, the theory was that when the

Governor was on leave, some junior attached

to the Secretariat was borrowed to act as

Private Secretary to the 0.A.G., possibly

Mr. Cowell can confirm that.

(I was under the impression that it was usual for the Private Secretary and

A.D.C. to live with the Governor and feed at

his table, so to speak, in which case, the

high level of prices in the Colony would not be

such a heavy burden on them as this despatch

suggests.)

Arddian

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