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We appreciate your desire to press ahead with localisation where possible, but one of the main intentions of CR18 is to protect the employment of officers already in the Public Service who might otherwise find their careers blocked by persons from outside subsequently recruited to higher grades, HERRKLIKERİİ The Public Service in this context is to be/understood in the /widest sense of service in any Dependent Territory and promotion to be understood to include transfer to any more responsible and/or higher paid post in the Public Servide, not just within the department to which an officer was originally recruited.

2. We do not, however, wish to be too categoric about this. Obviously if carried to extremes, the