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assumed that you will wish to consider

these questions de novo and I have refrained,

therefore, from any detailed comment on

Sir William Peel's despatch.

12. I trust that it has been made clear

that in this despatch I have been concerned only

with officers of the unified services and others

of comparable status. So far as these officers

are concerned, I attach considerable importance

to the elimination of diversities of treatment

as between different Colonies except in so far

as such diversities are genuinely required.

But as regards subordinate and locally engaged

personnel, I am content to leave a large measure

of discretion to a Colonial Government to

arrange the conditions of employment according

to local circumstances.

I have, etc.,

130) J. H. THOMAS

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