CO129-600-2 Salaries Commission- proposed Public Services Commission 20-1-1948 - 1-3-1948 — Page 95

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it would of course be open to the

Commission to make recommendations to

Government in the light of its experience

in recruiting candidates.

In my view the in ¡his connection

main concern of the Commission will be to

ensure that the fullest possible

consideration is given to the selection

of local candidates, who possess the

prescribed qualifications, to fill

vacancies remitted to the Commission.

Apart from measures designed to improve

the field of suitably qualified local

candidates, progress in this policy

will largely be governed by the remission

to the Commission in the first instance

of all vacancies except such as it may have been agreed, in consultation between the Governor and the Secretary of State, to reserve for overseas candidates. (L (a) Paragraph 173(iii) and (iv). I agree

that, since an important function of the

Commission will be to ensure the

maintenance of the prescribed standards

of qualifications for admission to the

public service, it would be appropriate

for the Commission to be charged with

a review of all recommendations for

promotion from one Class to another, in

order to ensure that a junior officer is

not promoted unless his qualific. tions

are of the standard which would be

required in an outside candidate for

appointment to the Class to which it is

proposed to promote him.

In respect of other promotions, where

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