Correspondence and memoranda concerning terms of employment of officers in the Colonial Service, 1938-1962

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Includes letters concerning terms of employment of officers in the Colonial Service, correspondence with Sir Andrew Caldecott and Ian Wallace, papers related to the Colonial Service in general, especially in territories on the verge of self-government - Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Jamaica, and Nigeria. Two unfoliated items and 320 foliated leaves, consisting of:

(fols. 1-103) Letters and memoranda concerning the two-year retirement rule for European Civil Servants appointed after 1928, arising out of the Soulbury Commission Report. These concerned include C.H. Hartwell, Secretary to the Governor, Colombo; Robert Drayton, Chief Secretary, Colombo; S.M. Duff, A.K.J. Henderson, A.R. Macdonald, C.E. Tilney, D.W.B. Baron, and O'Regan, all Civil Service Administrators, 1946-1947.

(fols. 104-162) Papers by, or concerning, Sir Andrew Caldecott, 1947-1958:

(fols. 105-111) 'A brief look back': article by Caldecott about his life as a District Officer in Malaya (Malaysia), 1909-1912, n.d.
(fols. 112-114) biographical notice of Caldecott by O'Regan following his death in 1951, 1951
(fols. 115-157) correspondence between Caldecott and the O'Regans covering copies of his correspondence with the Colonial Office about provision for European Administration Officers in colonies attaining self-government, including his resignation from the Colonial Service Appointments board over this issue, and a letter to The Times, 27 Jun 1947. Colonial Office correspondents are Sir Ralph Furse, A.M Grier, and Sir Charles Jeffries, 1947
(fols. 158-162) correspondence between O'Regan and Sir John Martin, Deputy U-S/S Col., and Frank Williams, Permanent Secretary to the Prime Minister, West Indies, about the above correspondence, 1958.

(fols. 163-245) Correspondence between O'Regan and Ian Wallace and Philip Rogers, Colonial Office, about day-to-day affairs in Jamaica, 1954-1956. Topics include:

(fols. 164-165, 168v, 172) Dunkley's visit and report on Public Works Department (PWD)
(fol. 165) Executive Council activities
(fols. 165-166, 168) Sangster contempt proceedings
(fol. 166) recruitment for Jamaican administration
(fol. 171) staffing problems
(fol. 171v, 182-185, 189-190, 193-196, 198) Bustamante
(fols. 173-181, 201, 203, 207, 213, 230-242) federation, including the Jamaican Legislative Council Debate
(fols. 186-187) administration arrangements
(fols. 189, 193-194) strikes
(fol. 190) hurricane damage in Haiti
(fols. 203-204) Norman Manley
(fols. 210-211, 220-221, 240) Wills Isaacs
(fols. 212-213, 230, 235-236) Ministers in Manley's Government, 1955
(fols. 226, 230-233) memorandum by O'Regan for the Governor on Constitutional Development in Jamaica
(fol. 237) George Cadbury.

(fols. 246-285) Correspondence and memoranda concerning the Lump Sum Compensation Scheme and the Special Scheme, 1957. Correspondents include:

O'Regan
Ronald E. Wraith
John Tilney, MP, Chairman, West African Committee of the Conservative Commonwealth Council
A.G.R. Mooring, Governor's Office, Western Region, Nigeria
Derek Scanlon, Ministry of Finance, Western Region
Sir John Macpherson, Permanent U-S/S Colonies

Further:

(items 1 and 2) Federal Government of Nigeria Circulars A 28/1958, 'Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service Special List Schedules A and B', pp. 16; and 26/1960 'Lump sum compensation', pp. 12, 1957 and 1960
(fols. 286-299) typed notes by O'Regan for handing over the post of Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Works and Surveys, 25 Apr 1962
(fols. 300-305) notes by O'Regan on his visit to British Honduras (Belize) as a British Council Lecturer, 27 Jan 1955
(fol. 306) list of the Governor's establishment, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), [1939?]
(fols. 307-316) typed report by Captain W.J.R. Gregg, Aide de Camp to the Governor of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), of the 21 Jul 1938 coronation of Hasan Huruddin Iskander II, Sultan of the Maldive Islands, 1938
(fols. 317-318) notes, typed, on a Civil Service pension scheme for Ceylon (Sri Lanka), c. 1945
(fols. 319-320) letter from O'Regan to Trafford Smith, Assistant Under-Secretary, Colonial Office, concerning compensation schemes, 27 Apr 1959