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Dear Mr. Sloss,

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Thank you for letting us see the papers about Mr. G.B. Endacot, which you sent with your note of the 6th August. As members of the Provisional Powers Committee, Mr. Caine and I agreedto his ( appointment to a History Lectureship in the University, at a starting salary of not less than £700,уprovided you are satisfied as to his suitability. I am not sure if you know that

Mr. Endacott was interviewed for an appointment in the Colonial Educational Service, but was not thought quite up to the standard required for a Senior Administrative appointment such as he desired.

In this connection, you raised the question recently of whether the Provisional Powers Committee had in fact power to make such appointment. On this, our Legal Adviser has made the following comment:-

"It is clear from Statute 16(7) that it is the Council which makes the appointments and the only sub-section in Statute 12, which sets out the powers of the Council, which would enable the Council to make these appointments 18 (6) and we have given the Committee the powers under this sub-section, and we have only limited the powers of expenditure".

D.J. SLOSS, ESQ., C.B.E.

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