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SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS OF RETRENCHMENT
COMMISSION.
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Cadet Service. ice. (Page 1.)
Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff. (2).
Junior Clerical Service. (3).
Promotions to senior posts to be strictly
on merit and made only if sufficiently qualified
officer is available.
Twenty per cent reduction in establishment.
Recruitment to be through Crown Agents.
Fewer stenographers required.
Reduction of twenty per cent in approved
establishment.
Colonial Secretary's Office.
Secretariat for Chinese Affairs.
Remedies must be found for the existing
over-centralization.
(i) The number of items excluded from the General
Warrant should be reduced.
(ii)
Ordinary matters involving expenditure should
be dealt with direct between Treasurer and
Heads of Departments.
(iii) Other matters, where neither Treasury nor
Secretariat is concerned, should be solely within
competence of Heads of Departments
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e.g.,
Personal files of officers confined to one
Department.
(iv) Permits for occupying land should be dealt with
by Superintendent of Crown Lands and Surveys.
The Chief Clerk should in future be
recruited from the Registry of the Colonial Office.
Reduction of twenty per cent should be made
in Senior and Junior Clerical staffs.
The work is likely to increase, but one
appointment is unnecessary the European police
sergeant
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