53723/3447 H.K.
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COLONIAL OFFICE,
THE CHURCH HOUSE,
GREAT SMITH STREET,
6.W.1.
lo March, 1948.
NO.
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3
81
sir,
I have the honour to refer to the recommendation in Chapter 8 of the Seluries Commission Report, enclosed with your Confidential despatch bo.215 of the 12th September last that a Public Service Commission should be set up in the Colony, and to my Confidential telegram No.1965 of the 28th December last in which, in reply to your Confidential telegram No.1917 of the 19th December, I undertook to address you further on the subject.
2.
The establishment of Public Service Com issions in the Colonies generally for the purpose of advising the Governor on the selection and appointment of candidates in the Colony to posts in the local service was advocated by my predecessor in the broad statement of policy contained in paragraph 21 (x1) of Colonial No.197 "Organisation of the Colonial Service". Since then I have had under examination various aspects of the application of this policy. It was apparent that such queɛtions as the range of functions to be assigned to these bodies and their composition - questions which would be determined in great measure in the light of purely local circumstances - raised general considerations on which guidance should be available to Governors. With this purpose in view sɔme observations on Public Service Commissions were included in a paper on the Colonial Service which was discussed at the Conference of African Governors in November last. A copy of the relevant section of this memorandum is enclosed. The conclusions which were reached by the Conference and with which I agres are set out in the accompanying extract from the minutes of the Conference.
3. Some of the recommendations of the Salaries Commission involve the assignment to a Public Services Commission of wider functions thun were suggested in that Memorandum. While, therefore, I do not of course wish to suggest that the views expressd in the Memorandum should be taken as precluding the assignment of such wider functions, I feel sure you will agree that it is advisable that those recommendati-ns should be examined further in the light of the Memorandum.
4. The points on which I invite your consideration are discussed in the following comments on the recommendations of the Salaries Commission :-
(a) Paragraphs 171 (last sentence) and 173(♥) and (vi).
Apart from the recommendation in paragraph 173(v) and (vi), as to which see below, it is not clear to what extent it is proposed that the Public Services Commission should be concerned with the interpretation and application of conditions of service. The se
GOVERNOR,
SIR ALEXANDER GRANTHAM, K.C.M.G.,
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