CO129-600-1 Salaries Commission- proposed Public Services Commission 29-9-1947 - 28-12-1947 — Page 3

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The establishment of Public Service Commissions

is one of the questions which is down for the

forthcoming African Governors' Conference and al-

though it does not necessarily follow that the

setting up of such Commissions in the African

Dependenices must be strictly followed elsewhere,

the discussions may well result in conclusions

which will enable useful advice to be given to

who are

other Colonial Governments in considering this

question. For this reason I think that it would

be well to defer considering the establishment of

a Public Service Commission in Hong Kong until

after the Conference. An additional advantage

is that by this time we shall probably have received

the recommendations of the Malayan Salaries Commission.

I attach a copy of a paper dealing with this

question which has been prepared for the above

Conference.

It will be seen vide paragraph 17 that it is

envisaged that a Public Service Commission will

normally deal with all permanent appointments to

the