Sending out cadets who should succeed eventually to the highest Appointments, maintained that by Sir A. K's plan for improving the salaries, status, & Chinese knowledge of the Clerks in the Offices was not intended that there
Clerks should succeed to the heads of the principal Departments.
But you will remember that Sir A.K. distinctly prided himself on having got rid of the old expensive student interpreters; if so, the Heads of the Departments to come from...
M. Smith maintained that almost every clerk in the service should know Chinese, though he admitted that they would expect a higher scale of salaries.
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With diversities of opinions & requirements.
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I shall have misgivings at aiming at any generally approved scheme for providing excellent & trustworthy Staff/Students. I have seen nothing to shake my opinion that the existing arrangements of Official Cadet training are the best. Has the Department anything bulimicacy Grand as proposed in any other scheme.
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& when this is settled return this Minute.
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