CO129-600-2 Salaries Commission- proposed Public Services Commission 20-1-1948 - 1-3-1948 — Page 96

the criterion is the relative efficiency

and merit of one officer as compared with

another, I feel considerable doubt whether

a Commission composed as proposed would be

the most effective machinery for reviewing the

recommendations of Heads of Departments. Both

as regards promotions and the passing of

efficiency bars I should be inclined to feel

greater confidence in a system of Departmental

promotions boards on which the staff of the

Department concerned was represented.

(e) 'Paragraph 174 and 175. This is the first

occasion on which it has been proposed that a

Colonial Public Services Commission should

not include a senior member of the Public

Service of the Colony. While I do not

demur to the recommendation that the

Commission should not include such a member,

it is conceivable that a suitable retired

officer of the Government may not be available

for appointment as Chairman. In that event,

it might well be that the only means of

ensuring (as is essential) that one at

least of the members should be thoroughly .

well versed in Government procedure and

in the best traditions of the public service,

would be by the appointment of a senior officer

of the Government as the Chairman of the

Commission. It would therefore be undesirable

to prescribe by Ordinance that the Commission

should not include any member of the Public

Moreover, while

Service of the Colony. the proposed statutory 人

independent character of the Commission will

undoubtedly be of advantage in relation to the

exercise of its responsibility for making

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