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DRAFT B
DRAFT LETTER
To:-
PERSONAL
Type 1 +
From
PUS
Sir David Trench GCMG MC C Church House
Telephone No. Ext.
Church Road
Shillingstone
BLANDFORD
Dorset
Department
DSR 11
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As you know, a meeting of the Dependent Territories
Senior Appointments Board has been arranged for 4 June.
I hope that you will be able to attỷnd.
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In the meantime I thought I should let you know that
I have been considering the future of the Board, and have
reached the conclusion that the time has now come to wind
it up.
The Board clearly served a very useful purpose when
it was first established in 1969. There were then more
dependent territories than there are today, and many more
HMOCS candidates for senior posts in them. Nowadays,
with the supply of HMOCS officers drying up, we are having
to look more and more to the Diplomatic Service as a source
of Governors and Chief Secretaries. The small number of
our remaining dependencies also means that there is seldom
sufficient business to justify a meeting of the Board
round the table; as you know, most recent appointments
have been dealt with out of Committee.
Against this background there seems to be no real
justification for keeping a separate board to handle
dependent territories' appointments. I am therefore
/recommending
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