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From: His Excellency Admiral Sir Derek Reffell KCB Governor and Commander-in-Chief
1 December 1992
THE CONVENT,
GIBRALTAR.
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D C A Madden Esq
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FCO
Jean Javind,
NEXT GOVERNOR OF GIBRALTAR
1.
On my return I saw a copy of Nick Carter's note of 18 November 1992 and I enclose a copy of a letter I have written to Mr Garel-Jones to clarify the situation. It is not that Nick got it wrong but merely that I thought it would be better to make my position crystal clear. There are a number of other points which arise from various papers on the changeover, domestic staff and other
requirements.
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2. I am not sure it would be wholly fair to ask one the military house staff to remain for three months' turnover. Certainly an overlap would be desirable but, since it will be a totally different, civilian regime I think that a period no longer than a month should suffice - 80 long as we have set up a sensible arrangement.
But if we have not, there will be little that the PO Steward could do about it and he might well be placed in ап invidious position. I fear there is no scope for the locally engaged maids to be redeployed as table staff: they simply aren't capable of it - and two of them don't even speak much English.
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As I said to your people last month, the option of contracting from an hotel still seems to us not only to be the most sensible option but the only sensible one if it is not possible to keep the military staff! I do not think there is any mileage to be made from John Buck's suggestion
"recruiting a mixture of nationalities", We could only recruit from those who applied and would have to judge on merit rather than race. Whilst some domestic
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