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10/53423/37 Quid Submits observations & 2

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recommendations.

The Governor asks for reconsideration of

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Sir A. Caldecott's proposals making substantive

appointments to a number of senior posts, and states

that in his opinion a reversion to the system

previously in force, of maintaining the Class I

of the Cadets Service whose members would be

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eligible for filling of the senior posts in question (i.e. except the Col. Sec., the Sec. for

Chinese Affairs, and the Financial Sec.), would be

in the public interest. His reasons for this

recommendation are:

(1)

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That the present system is more flexible

and enables "the square peg to be removed

from the round hole", whereas under the

alternative system an officer may have

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to be promoted over the heads of a

number of men senior to him and equal by

general efficienty, because he is more

suited for the particular vacancy.

(2)

That the system recently approved does

not offer the Cadets Service a satisfactory

avenue of promotion and will not serve

to maintain it in an efficient state.

This is essentially a C.S.D. matter and

I must admit that I cannot altogether follow Sir G.

Northcote's line of reasoning.

For example, the

contention in para. 3, that the public interest is

frew cous better safeguarded by the dating system than by

appointing substantively to a post the man most

suited to it by training and natural aptitude,

even though he be junior to other members of the

Service