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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY MARCH 21, 1982.

HONG KONG AND MALAYA CADET SERVICE

CANDIDATES TO BE CHOSEN BY

APPOINTMENTS BOARD.

SECRETARY OF STATE EXPLAINS

REASON FOR CHANGE.

Not long ago, it will be remembered, a brief Router cablo from London announced that the Secretary of State for the Colonies had decided that in future cadet officers for Hong Kong wad Malaya would be chosen on the recommendation of the Colonial Service Appointment Boards, instead of by ecenpetitivo examination. This would bring the Hong Kong and Malaya sor. vies into line with that of other Colonies.

It is considered that the Board is able to guage of scholastic attainments by the record of the candidate, and the all important nablers of character and temperament en be given duo "weight under the now-system,

The current number of the Government Gazette contains tho full memorihdun on this subject forwarded by the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Sir P. Cunliffe Lister) to HB, Sir William Pcol:

CHANGE TO OPERATE AT ONCE.

The full text is as follow: ---- Sr, I have the honour to in- Term you tha, after very careful eansideration, I have decided to us similate the system of recruitment for the Chuet Services of Malaya and Hong Kong to hut in force, for the Colonial Servico generally, An announcemens do this effect, of which I enufose a copy, appeared in the press on January 28.

[Not printed.)

As a consequence of this decision, which was taken after consultation with the Civil Service Commission

grounds for supposing that were the Eastern Colonics to retain the axamination, they would an ind went on, find their fold of ohoice seriously restricted as compared with that at the disposal of the rest of the Service,

PARTIALITY,

It will be sown therefors that are) der the conditions of to-day, the Adoption of a common pathod f antry for the whole Servico is like. ly to prove generally advantageour, not only to the Colonial Service a whole, but lo each of its compon ant elements. It is further clear that the two main, arguments used in the pass for the retention of the competitive examination, Le O that the selection, system was dim- cult to defend against charges of partiality and (2) that it did not produce a sufficiently high standard of intellectual ability, can no long- or be substantiated.. On the other hand the selection system has been proved to possess distinct advant ages both in widening Bald of choico and in enabling weight to be given more sasily to qualißentions which are of great importance in the can- didates to be selected. The results of the change can, of course, only be judged fron experience, but fcol that there is every reason to look upon the future with confidence,

TO START IN 1932. in the aume market, it is clear tha the best interests of all the Admini

Assuming then that the change strations concerned lie in presenting was to be made, there were convinc a single united appeal to the type ing arguments for making it imme- of candidates they wish to attract, diately. In the ordinary way The prestige of a Colonial Service, should have wished to give as long entered by one uniform channel and notice as possible of such a decision presenting opportunities world wide but it was brought to my notice that in their scope, must eventually be the temporary reduction of other far greater than that of a number openings for young men,, owing to of relatively amall Services with no the existing financial depression, co-ordinated method of recruitment; would enable the selection of candi and the Colonial Empire as a whole dates for the Colonial Service in has become of such importance, thai | 1992 to be carried out under peculi no step which will enhance the prearly favourable conditions, and that

inevitably attend any radical change

of system would thus be reduced to

and the Colonial Service Appoin-stige and efficiency of the Service the inisial difficulties which must ments Board, and with the Boneur which administers i can safely neg- ranes of both bodies, candidates for lected.. the Cade Services in the above mentioned Colonies will in future

There were therefore the strongest a minimum. On the other hand, grounds for adapting adopting should the change be postponed it was quite possible that an excep

be selected on the recommendation single channel of appointment to of the Colonial Service Appoint posts of the same type in the Co- tionally favourable opportunity for ments Board intend of, as hitherto,fonia: Empire. It remained co con-establishing the position of the Co

A class career according to the results of the corn-sider what this channel should be, lonial Service a petitive examination held by the and at what slage the change should might have been missed. I did not Civil Service Commission for the be introduced. I found that the feel justified in taking so serious af Home and Indian Givil Services, overwhelming weight of experience risk and accordingly felt it neces The position of Ceylon is special and argument was in favour of the sary to treat the matter as one of and will be separately considered in galection system. For various rea- urgency and to announce the change consultation with the Governor. In sons, which I need not blaborate in time for it to be introduced in connection with the selection of can the meantime the postponement of here, the adoption of the examina a decision in rogard do that, lslandtion system would have been im didates in 1932

As this despatch will no doubt, will have no immediate practical practicable for the Colonial Service affect since the recruitment of Euro-as a whole, however satisfactory it be of interest to officials and to peans for the Civil Service is at may have been in meeting the re-members of the public in the terri present auspended.

latively small requirements of the tories immediately affected by the I realise that there may be some Cadet Services. Moreover, the Com-decision, I have to request that it who will regret this decision as mittee of the Colonial Office Con may be published locally in such a marking a break with a long and ference of 1930, which examined the manner as may commend itgolf to honourable tradition. I sympathisa question of the unification of the you with that regret, and I would has Colonial Service, explicitly depre

I have the honour to be,

Bir, ten to asouro you that my decisioncated the exision of the examina was not based on any failure, totion system beyond the areas in appreciate the, valuable services which it was then in force. On the which have been rendered in the other hand, the testimony of the past, and are being rendored to-day, Warren Fisher Committee to the by men who have entered the Cadet success of the selection system Sarviers through the competitive and the fact that, as a result examination, Many of them, I am of that Committee's report, the aware, have achieved distinction selection system has been placed on not only in the Eustern Colonies in settled and permanent basis-and but in other parts of the Colonial bas been protected against auspi Empire, to whose general developcion on the score of partiality or ment members of the Cadet Services unfairness, if any such suspicion have materially contributed.

EMPIRE CONDITIONS CHANGE.

there waro, by the institution of the Colonial Bervice. Appointments Board-led almost inevitably to the conclusion that, if a single method of entry were adopted that method should be the selection system. CHARACTER AND TEMPERA- MENT.

At the same time it is essential lo take account of the great changes which are so rapidly taking place in the Colonial Empire as a whole. It is necessary also o remember that the whole problem of recruit-

While the obvious advantage of ment at home has of recent years this system lies in its peculiar ad- been considerably modified, on the aptability for securing mon endow 010 hand by economic for- ed with those necessary qualities of

"out of tho arising

war character and temperament which and 011 the other by the are not readily amenable to the development of fresh allernative test of a written examination, it careere now open to the glass of should not be supposed that the in- man which the Colonial Service de- troduction of the system need in sires to attract. In deciding to dis-volve any departure from the high continue the competitiva examina-tandards of intellecion ability and tion, I have been looking not at the academic distinction which are ad past, but do' the future.

mittedly characteristic of the ser

Cen

At a time when the Colonial Evices recruited in past years by the piro consisted of scattered units, competitiva examñiation. Under the separated from each other and from selection aystem a judicious scrutiny this country by distances which the fof the academie records and at modern methods of communication Fainments of the candidats enabres Iliad not yet bridged, and when the a close assessment to be made of his administration of many of these intellectual qualifications; and the unita was still in the pioneering educational records of recont appli stago, it was not unnatural that re-cants show that the Bervices already cruitment for the older Administra recruited by the scieption system are tions of Ceylon, Malaya and Hong now attracting young men of real Kong should be linked to that of ability who, from this point of view the Home and, especially, the In-apart from any other, are fully dian Civil Services with which they able to stand comparison with thos had most in. common. As a natural obtainable through the examination. corollary to the rapid development. With the added prestigs which the of the Colonial Empire as a whole Colonial Service will gain from pro in recent years, corresponding seating a single appeal to candi changes and developments have dates. I am confident that there is taken place in the importance, every expectation that the standard character and requirements of the already reached will be maintained general Colonial Service. In conse and even raised.

quence the Services of the Eastern On the other hand, the pressure Colonies have now to be considered of financial considerations tends in relation to hat genetal Service, nowadays grently to enhance the at and their affinity with it, rather tractiveness of ang profession- or than with the Indian and Home service which offers a career në 1000 Services, in daily becoming closer.

as possible after the conclusion of

EMPIRE.

a University course and which does IMPORTANCE OF COLONIAL not impose any additional hazard Buch no a savers ad hoc examina tion, involving dairy and, in some Whatever may have been the cases, additional expense. In that case in the past, the qualifications respect there is a marked difference demanded in candidates for ad- between postwar and pre-war con ministrative posts in the "Colonia ditions, In view of this and of the Service do nos now differ in any remarkable increase in the prestige essential feature in whatever part and popularily of the main Coloni of the Colonial Empire they mayal Service, which does not impose be required to serve. In recruiting any nesdonic tout apart from those men of the same type for provided by the ordinary Univamily the sama kind of #work and curriculum, there...... arc,-strong-

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