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NOTE FOR GOVERNORS' CONFERENCE

POSTS,

1989:

ADMINISTRATION OF GO

GOVENRORS

ITEM 4, WEDNESDAY 11 JANUARY PM

1.

__I_note that the record

record of the Heads of Mission Conference Says

at 1987, said that paragraphs in Kingston,

"that there

12

and 13

should be developed a pool of officers with incremental experience

of dependent territories' work; and this proposal and endorsed", and second that funds should be

the

dependent

territories'

"

to Adviser

Dependent Territories once a year".

was confirmed

for provided

travel and visit the

2.

I

would also refer

to

prodecessor's paper my

to the Head

wath

of WIAD in 1987 — besed partly on compex and discussions

över some 21

3.

21 years. En passant,

And I would note that within 16/1/2 months of my assuming

the Governorship in Cayman,

the whole

and Atlantic Department had changed.

4.

staff of

the West

Indian

The Kole question of the administration of dependent

to find or created territories and how one would find staff to be Governors is

a very old chestnut.

I

to be young

dinosaur, a

5.

seem may

but I begin to

that I am one at the age of 54 years and 362 days.

6.

two

feel

And I want to make

mere disclaimers I have had an

enjoyable career in Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service after declining to join the Foreign Service in 1950.

declining years

of the Cayman Islands, I

paid and have no complaints on that score.

1.

at

and.

Governor as

Lisbed officers

-

And in my

am

wes

Jaurl

'at

I remember discussions in 1962 in the Colonial Office

> Establishment an

Secretaries Conference, when I was the

Establishment Officer (No 2) in the Fiji

Fiji Civil Service that time a smallish service of something like 14,000 established

but already than we were looking

what would happen as more Colonies moved to independence.

I remember these discussions going on as the Colonial Office

disappeared, as the CRO disappeared, and particularly in the

seventies when I was

for 4 years Secretary for the Civil Service in Hong Kong responsible for a service of something like 140,000

to

/people,