here are in
by
ML
at the same
means
futures to be recruited means of cadets from Home. I should be the last to complain of this decision which appears to be most salutary; time I may perhaps be allowed to point out that if worked without Exception it might be the means of inflicting some injustice on officers who came out from Home to post in Hong Kong before the cadet system was so fully brought into force. I am perhaps almost the only if I am not the only Officer now here in this position.
I was offered a mastership in the Government Central School by your Lordship's predecessor in 1880. As to the manner in which my duties have been performed I enclose an extract from a letter by the Head Master to the Colonial Secretary.
The hardship of my position is increased by the fact, now I believe beginning to be generally admitted, that the masters of the Central School are inadequately paid, and also by the rule which seems to be acted upon, though it probably has never been put into words, that they are not generally eligible for posts in other Departments.
In view of these circumstances, which cannot but be somewhat discouraging to my
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