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of that post being revived.

9. In course of time certain of these six senior

appointments for example, those mentioned towards the

end of paragraph 5 above - may cease temporarily or

permanently to be filled by Cadet Officers, in which case

the establishment of the senior cadre might be reconsidered. The important point, however, at present is to keep the Cadet Service attractive to recruits, and encouraging to those within it: it is not only a fine service in itself

but its continuance in an efficient state is a condition

of the efficient administration of this Colony. This

cannot be secured unless it has before it a satisfactory

avenue of promotion. I have no hesitation in saying that

the proposals recently approved for its higher stages would have the opposite reaction and I urge their reconsideration most strongly.

10. I make no proposal at present regarding the

emoluments of the suggested senior cadre or as to the

acting allowances to be given to officers on the time-scale

acting in the senior posts listed in paragraph 8. Certain

proposals on both these points had been drafted for

submission to you; but while they were still under

consideration the attention of my advisers and myself was

increasingly directed toward anomalies arising and

threatening to arise from the recent revision of the

emoluments throughout the higher ranks of the local Civil

Service. In the circumstances it seemed best to us that an

Anomalies Committee should be appointed to review the whole

question and to make recommendations for rectification and I

have taken that course. It would be unwise and undesirable

to make piece-meal proposals relating to one small though