Yes.
The other point he makes is that, “A further weakness of the present system is that, at present, few candidates are screened out after the [advisory panel] referral is made to the [selection board]”. He said, “114 attended the [selection board] interview and 104 were recommended to the Minister (i.e. [the greatest percentage] make it through the [board]”.
What I think he's saying is that if you set up a high enough initial objective standard by the written test, you might be able to use the one board, because the selection board was just about processing everything that came to them from the advisory panel. Would you agree with his conclusion?