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Metropolitan Police, addressed to
the Right How: The Secretary of State under date April 1871. A further "proof of the growing popularity " of the Police Service is the increased " mumber of eligible Candidates. Aty
so large
a number of Europeans,
and therefore
Some tes expensive
material for sustaining the
numerical
strength of the Starce will have
to be obtamed
12.
the year
there
Bal H
of the
lve the
" one pried durnig " were 689 Candidates on the list
"waiting for nomination".
boo
11. As the cost of 600 mew at
$30 each per month would amount
to $216,000 por
auw or
about $14,000
- more than the highest Police
Estimates
yet
sanctioned, it is
not at all probable that it will
ever
be
proposed
the Hong Kong
to employ
Police by any
in
meaus
Under all the circumstances
I should be disprosed
case
any
to recommend the enlistment of West Indians, and as I believe
reasonable mumber of well drilled and disciplined men could be
obtained in the West Indian
Islands, I would
suggest
the
expediency of considering the
Hoe te low propriety of at once $426. 1:120 430 to enlist, say,
Must
200
laxing steps
$16 fier
be on
monch, 50 or $18, and 50 on êto per
on