1 Service of Hongtong and the
Straits Settlements. I consider
that anba exceptional On the complacy
Circumstances
itists I confider that it
May be
as an
zule
ordinary preferable to select the colonial Secretary from without than
from within the colony. I -4. I gather that it is not
wholly
your
intention wholly to
Combine the two deportments,
but rather to retain them
as far sipporate branchial
If the pal·lic service, hamix
cafe
in the
Hompiling as other plonies
I think I
Would
say
this
is CPE.
I kommit it is a drittfel.
a aggualte perpentira, wend What does tofure.
is sufficient E
Ifficers during in the will of
Comme le linthe 4h Cathard M. I bound an
For the present, at any
rake
Mi
common head and I shall be glad to know thatted or
the
-5 Martious Jaffare of
proposed abolition on racancy- of the appointment of Chief Cleak in the Colonial Secretary': Office and of that of
Not this impression is posse.
lithis
orums,
clerts of the Councils, and
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approve
the other recommendations which,
have been made in the direction
of
(the Colonial Secretary's
retrenchment in that office
and that of the registrar general,
So far as you have expressed
Concurrence was in them in
your despatch.
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agree that the appointment of assistant Registrar General
must be retained, but I do
not
of
agree
that the salar.
Salary
the assistant colmial
Seene tary
should be raised as
high as you suggest and I
prefer
the scale which the
committee recommend Liz
riz
$.3600. p.a. rising by
every
increments of $300 two years to #4800, the holder to discharge
of the appointment
the duties