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leave and passage privileges, and that no distinction
should be made between officers recruited locally and
officers recruited from elsewhere: and although their
proposals are framed on the assumption that the officers
to whom they will be applied will normally be recruited
from outside sources, I have no doubt that you will
appreciate the force of the objections which they felt
to discriminating against any officer who has been given
the status in the Service, which they had in mind, merely
on the ground that he has been recruited locally: it
will also be apparent that many of the governing
considerations which the Committee socepted in framing
their proposals (e.g. the desirability of providing
adequate opportunity for a change of environment and for
contact with develoments of thought in wider spheres)
have no geographical or domiciliary basis at all, and
are applicable to all officers who are engaged on work
requiring a high standard of intellectual vigour snä
accomplishment. In these circumstances I feel that there
are strong grounds for secepting the Committee's view
on this point.
4.
The leave systəm which the Committee envisages
provides for the grant of overgess leave at more or less
regular intervals; this principle is already observed in
Hong Kong and the changes which the Committee propose will
have the effect in the first place of reducing the length
of service necessary to qualify an officer for the benefit
of the shorter tour from twenty to ten years, and in the
second place of adjusting the leave ratio so as to provide
on the conclusion of a tour an average period of from four
to
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