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.................................................In Confidence
DRAFT
LETTER
Type 1 +
To:.
Sir David Trench GCMG MC Church House
Church Road
Shillingstone BLANDFORD Dorset
From
PUS
Telephone No. Ext.
Department
LORI
DEPENDENT TERRITORIES SENIOR APPOINTMENTS BOARD
1. You will be aware that a meeting of the Dependent
Territories Senior Appointments Board is planned for 4 June.
2.
I have been recently considering the future of this Board
and wondering whether it is still serving a useful purpose.
As you will probably know, it was set up in 1969 when there
were more Dependent Territories to be staffed than there are
today, and more HMOCS members to choose from to fill senior
vacancies in these territories. Nowadays, with the supply of
HMOCS officers drying up, it is becoming necessary to look
more and more towards the Diplomatic Service as a source of
potential candidates. A further point is that appointments to
the most senior posts, e.g. Governorships of Hong Kong,
Bermuda and Gibraltar, are now usually decided outside the
Board.
3. With these thoughts in mind, I have concluded that the
time has come to wind up the Board.
I would propose, however,
to go ahead with the meeting planned for 4 June and there-
after to deal with senior vacancies in Dependent Territories
through the normal Diplomatic Service machinery.
4. I hope you will agree with this decision. A regrettable
with
feature is that/the abolition of the Board we shall be
dispensing with the valuable advice which you have given us
I should during your seven years membership of the Board.
like to offer you my most sincere thanks for all your help.
bd 108087 400M S2R 1977
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