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TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1932.

COLONIAL OFFICE DESPATCH TO GOVERNOR.

11, is

SINGAPORE BASE.

QUESTION TO BE DISCUSSED AT OTTAWA.

ad- demanded in, candidates for miniatrative posts In the Colonial Service do not now differ in any essential feature in whatever part of the Colonial Empire they may be required to serve. In recruiting

London, Mar. 20. The despatch to the 'Governor men of the same type for the samo

kind of work and in the same mar-. The question of strengthening from the Secretary of State for

In the Singapore base will be discus the Colonies (Sir. P. Cunliffe-kot, it la clear that the best Lister) in regard to the changed terests of all the Administrations sed at the forthcoming Ottawa system

of recruitment for the concerned lle in presenting a single Conference, says the Sunday Dis

patch Hongkong Civil Service, sent from united appeal to the type of can- Tho didate they wish to attract,

The Admiral's naval staff has Downing Street on Feb.

A Colonial Service,

vico. been naked to draw up plans of forwarded by the Colonial Secret-prestige of

entered by one uniform channel what they consider should be done ary for publication.

and presenting opportunities world The despatch is as follows: Sir, I have the honour to

by Cabinet before the wide in their scope, must eventual at Singapore, and this will be con- form you that, after very carefully be far greater than that of a Ministers leave for Ottawa, but no number of relatively small Services definite action will be taken pend- consideration, I have decided to

discussion at Ottawa. aasimilate the system of recruit with no co-ordinated method of ing

The Dominions may be asked to ment for the Cadet Services of recruitment; and the Colonial

to- pire as a whole has become of such make a further contribution Malaya and Hongkong to that in force for the Colonial Service importance, that no step which will wards the cost of the extra work

Router. enhance the prestige and efficiency en the bano.! announcement to generally. An

of the Service which administers it can safely be neglected.

Strongest Grounds for Single Channel. There were therefore

in-

this effect, of which I enclose a copy, appeared in the Press January 26th.

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consequence of this deci. alon, which was taken after con- sultation with the Civil Service

be

will have no immediate practical offret since the recruitment of

over,

tho

Whs

Em-

the

in

increase

the

ordinary

Bro

in the prestige and Colonial of the main popularity Service, which does not impose any academic test apart from those

by provided University curriculum, there strong grounds for supposing that, were the Eastern Colonies to re- lain the examination, they would, as time went on, find their field of choice seriously restricted as com- pared with that at the disposal of The rest of the Service.

Commission and the Colonial Ser-strongest grounds for adopting a single channel of appointment to vice Appointments Foard, and with sta of the same type in the the concurrence of boil bodles, candidates for the Cadet Services Colonial Empire. It remained to consider what this channel should in the above mentioned Colonies be, and at what stage the change will in fature be selected on the

should be introduced. I found that recommendation of the Colonial the overwhelming weight of CX-

Appointments Board, In-erience and Service

argument

It will be seen therefore that stead of, as hitherto, according to Invour of the selection system. For under the conditions to-day, the the results of the competitive ex- various reasons, which need not adoption of a common method of amination held by the Civil Ser-aborate here, the adoption of the estry for the whole service is likely vice Commission for the Home and examination system would have to prove generally advantageous, Indian Civil Services, The posi-been Impracticable for the Coloniat not only to the Colonial Service us a tion of Ceylon TH special and will Service as a whole, however satie-

whole, but to each of its com- further separately considered in con- factory it may have been in meet-ponent elements. It is sultation with the Governor. In

clear that the two main argumenta ing the relatively small require the meantime the postponement of ments of the Cadet Services. More uned in the past for the retention n decision in regard to that. Island

the Committee of

of the competitive examination, Colonial Office Conference of 1930, ., (i) that the selection system which examined the question of the

was dimeult to defend ngainat unification of the Colonial Service, charges of partiality and (2) that explicitly deprecated the extension of the examination system beyond it did not produce a sufliciently high standard of intellectual the areas in which it was then in

"the ability, can no longer be substan- force. On the other hand, testimony of the Warren Fisher tinted. On the other hand the Committee to the success of the selection system and the fact that. as a result of that Committee's re- part, the selection system has been pincel on a settled and permanent basis-und has been protected against suspicion on the score of partiality or unfairness, it such auspicion there were, by the institution of the Colonial Service Appointments Board-led almost inevitably to the conclusion that, if

Europeans for the Civil Service in at present suspended.

I realise that there may be some

who will regret this decision as marking a break with a long and

honourable tradition. I sympathise with that regret, and I would hasten to assure you that my deci- slon was not based on any failure to appreciate the valuable services which have been rendered in the past, and are being rendered to lay, by men who have entered the Cadet Services through the com- of petitive examination. Many them, I am aware, have achieved distinction not only in the Eastern Colonies but in other parts of the

Clonial Empire, to whose generul

development members of the Cadet Services have materially contribut-†

etl.

any

single method of entry were adopted, that method should be the selection system.

While the obvious advantage of Grent Changes in the Empire.

this system lies in its peculiar At the same time it is essential adaptability for securing BCB to take

of the great

with those account

endowed

пессявагу changes which

BO rapidly qualities of character and len

not readily taking place in the Colonial Empire perament which are

which

selection system has been proved to possess distinct advantages both in widening the field of choice and in enabling weight to be given more easily to qualifications which are of great importance in the can. didates to be selected. The results of the change can, of course, only he judged from experience, but I feel that there is every reason to

k upon the future with

fidence.

L'OM.

Reasons for Urgency. Assuming then that the change was to be made, there were convinc- ing arguments for making it Im- way mediately. In the ordinary I should have wished to give as long notice as possible of such a decision but it was brought to my notice that the temporary re- duction of other

for openings young men, owing to the existing

as a whole. It is necessary also to amenable to the test of a written remember that the whole problem examination, it should not be supfumcial depression, would enable

1 recruitment at home has of re-posed that the introduction of the centers been considerably modi-system med involve any departure

of in fel, on the one hand by economic from the high standards imes arising out of the war, and ellertal ability, and aendemic dis- on the other by the development of tinction

are admittedly fresh alternative careers now open characteristic of the serviceg to the class of Ma which the crufted in past years by the com- Colonial Service desires to attract.petitive Examination. Under th In deciding to discontinue the com-election system TL jadicions petitive examination, I have been serutiny of the academie records kuking not at the past but to the and attainments of the candidate future.

mables a close assessment

to be

the selection of candidates for the Colonial Service in 1932 to be out under peculiarly carried favourable conditions, and that the initial difficulties which must in- evitably attend any radical change of system would thus be reduced to a minimum. On the other hand, should the change be postponed, it was quite possible that an excep tionally favourable opportunity for establishing the position of the Colonial Service as a first class arece might have been missed. I did feel justified in taking so

not

ຕ risk and accordingly felt sorious It necessary to treat the matter as one of urgency and to announce the change in time for it to be in- troduced in connexion with selec- tion of candidates in 1932.

At

a time when the Colonial En-made of his intellectual qualifien pins consisted of scattered units, tina; and the educational records separated from each other and of recent applications show that from this country by distances the Services already recruited by which the modern methods of com- the selection systeni are now ot munication had not yet bridged, tracting young men of real ability and when the administration of who. From this point of view spart many of these units was still in from any other, are fully able to The pioneering stage, it was not stand comparison with those examina. obtainable through the uunatural that recruitment for the older Administrations of tion. With the added prestige he of interest to officials and to Ceylon, Malaya and Hongkong which the Colonial Service should be linked to that of

the wain from

will

As this despatch will, no doubt,

members of the public in the ter

Home and, especially, the Indian peal to canting a single opritories immediately affected by

in

Civil Services with which they had most în common. As a natural carollary to the rapid development of the Colonial Empire as a whole recent years, corresponding changes and developments have taken place in the importance, character, and requirements of the general Colonial Service. In con- the Services of the sequence Eastern Colonies have now to be considered in relation to that general Service, and their affinity with it, rather than with the In- dim and. Home Services, fa dally Incoming closer.

Whatever may have been the case in the past, the qualifications

SALESMAN SAM

LATE AGAIN,

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I am confident

tends

the decision, I have to request that it may be published locally in such a manner as may commend itself to you.

that there is every expectation that the standard already reached will be maintained and even raised.

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