CO129-611-5 Development Secretariat- appointment of registrar of Co-operatives 10-3-1947 - 10-3-1948 — Page 2

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Mr. Dawson.

10-3-47

Please see the despatch at () in which the Governor describes the present position of co-operatives in the Colony, the probable trend of development and suggests the appointment of a Registrar of Co-operatives. Such a post would certainly seem to be essential to co-ordinate the development in urban and rural districts, at any rate for some years, to inaugurate the system.

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I have not a copy of the 1946-47 Estimates available, but I presume this post is not provided for and that Treasury approval will eventually have to be obtained.

I should be grateful for your views on the despatch, and for your suggestions for the salary of the Registrar.

(Sgd) D.B. Whyte.

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This was done last year by Mr. Cruallly,

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Mr. Vickers

The Governor has under consideration the

possibility of appointing a Registrar of Co-operatives to inaugurate and organize the movement, particularly in the case of the fishing, agricultural and forestry industries. This Registrar will have on his staff

a competent assistant who has now been appointed a full-time co-operative officer, and whose period of study you have presumably organized in this country and elsewhere. Presumably the intention is to have a Registrar under contract of, say, for three years to train up the Chinese assistant co-operative officer to take over.

The question upon which I would be grateful for yours and Sir Frank Stockdale's advice is regarding the terms of appointment which we will have to offer to obtain a person of the calibre required and whence he will be obtained.

You will notice that he should be a person versed in the Co-operative movement in an industrialised

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