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Chief Shark.
chist clarte for advice, please.
(Dr. (veu).
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Jeh Kew
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The Minister of State has seen the PUS's minute of 27
January and has minuted as follows:-
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"This is a psychological issue and I welcome the change but the timing could not be worse. All my political antennae warn me against this. The key issue is the dockyard on which I am at present clearly wishing to take a tougher line than the Department and we will be considering an announcement very soon. Would it meet your need to make the decision and, as from 1 March or earlier, put Gibraltar under the Head of SED, save the Assistant Secretary post, but only make the change of Department formal in the summer. If we decide not to close
of the dockyard, which I hope will not be the decision, course we could go ahead with the full re-organisation immediately."
Qwestbrook
B Westbrook
1 February 1977
PS/RVS
1. Mr Lewis is considering premature retirement, but there are
In these circumstances it would still some points to be settled.
not be easy to save the Grade 4 post itself with effect from 1 March and I think the best solution would be to decide now that the change should be carried out as a whole in the summer,
1 June.
say
ABCKWG
Curtis Keeble
11 February 1977
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