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ADMINISTRATION

Public Services Commission

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The Public Services Commission, appointed under Ordinance in 1950, with a view to improving the standard of efficiency of officers in public service and ensuring that the claims of local candidates for appointment receive full con- sideration, advises the Governor on appointments and promotions to the great majority of vacancies in the pensionable government establishment.

The highest ranks of the public service are open to local men with suitable qualifications. At present locally-born men, most of them Chinese, hold positions in the Colonial Administrative Service, as Magistrates, Crown Counsel, and in many responsible technical posts.