to reorganise the Registrar General's Department and to place it on a more satisfactory footing.
It was also in the Autumn of 1878 that I recommended with your approval the view of raising the Standard of interpretation in the Colony, and requested you to inform him what relation the new Department would bear to the other Departments of State, and especially to that of the Registrar General.
A distinct Interpretation Department should be created to be presided over by Dr Eitel.
Before assuming any predecessor on 5th August 1879,
No answer to this Despatch has yet been received, and the public service of Hong Kong still remains in a state...
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