Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The public issue of loans
- 2 Other sources of finance
- 3 The management of colonial investment Funds
- 4 The management of the Joint Colonial Fund and the Joint Miscellaneous Fund
- 5 The cost of supplies
- 6 Procurement from the early 1960s and delivery delays
- 7 Miscellaneous roles
- 8 The move into secondary banking
- 9 The collapse of the secondary banking venture
- Conclusion
- Appendices
7 - Miscellaneous roles
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The public issue of loans
- 2 Other sources of finance
- 3 The management of colonial investment Funds
- 4 The management of the Joint Colonial Fund and the Joint Miscellaneous Fund
- 5 The cost of supplies
- 6 Procurement from the early 1960s and delivery delays
- 7 Miscellaneous roles
- 8 The move into secondary banking
- 9 The collapse of the secondary banking venture
- Conclusion
- Appendices
Summary
The chapter examines a host of miscellaneous roles performed by the Agency, including the completion of a variety of personnel duties, the provision of various engineering services, and the discharge of a number of less important tasks, such as the sale of stamps, the granting of concessions, the purchase and rental of London properties, and the employment of solicitors.
Personnel duties
The Agents' personnel duties included the recruitment of expatriate officers, the arrangement of their journeys to and from the country of employment, the payment of their pensions and some salaries, and, from the mid-1960s, the provision of training courses. As well as recruiting expatriate staff, the CAs drew up employment agreements and arranged medical inspections for re-engaged officers and those who had been selected by the Colonial Office and by certain colonial public institutions. Their recruitment duties involved advertising vacancies, and, if appropriate, sending details to University Appointment Boards, professional associations or consulting engineers; dispatching application forms to those who expressed an interest; choosing the candidates to be interviewed, in the case of engineering posts with the help of a consulting engineer; taking up their references; and conducting the interviews, generally with a professional adviser and someone from the employing government or a retired expatriate officer. They then recommended the most suitable candidate to the colony concerned, and, if their advice was accepted, arranged a medical inspection.
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- Managing British Colonial and Post-Colonial DevelopmentThe Crown Agents, 1914–1974, pp. 160 - 178Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2007