Fitz. Say 5 and Constables of the Water Police
amounted to $12,012, effect from allowances effected on their
that you
A considerable reduction was
aganization in the cause
the salaries being brought down to $4,060.
The pay
raised in
the course
No.159.
all round
but
my
$12 a
a year
Segts, As Segly and Constables, that is.
adding
I can quite go the staff,
the necessity for far increasing
and
pay of the officers; but it seems to me
that no
an all-round good
increase. The
memo
drawn out for
Garner hardly
goes into the matter; and has made a bad slip about the total amount of
the increase. We are
every
much in the dark.
but as the potent isoul & make
parison on next year's
I think affore.
increases on
Colimate, an
A. F·g/s 9/8
? Appears his submitting these next year's estimates, when
they will be countered and dealt with in connection with the
financial portion of the Several
2 point out
the
out his mistake Aus 10/8
C.Pat
10 atonce
sir,
C0006
19:00
REG2 31 JUL 29
135
Government House,
HongKong, 29th
June, 1899.
I have the honour to transmit for your
information the enclosed copy of a Report by the Captain Su-
perintendent of Police on the proposed remodelling and rear-
ganisation of the Water Police, based chiefly upon the new con-
ditions introduced by the requirements of the New Territory.
2. Mr.May draws attention to the necessity
of increasing salaries so as to enable the Government to en-
gage the services of men as efficient as those who are attracted
by the superior pay, the absence of night work, and the less
vigorous discipline obtaining among private persons and mer-
cantile firms, and in the Imperial Customs service.
3. Mr.May recommends that four first class
coxswains for patrol duty in Mirs Bay and Deep Bay should each
receive $30 a month; that nine second and third class coxswains,
who are policemen, should receive 16 and 14 respectively;
that 30 seamen should receive $10, and 30 receive $9 a month
each; and that the carpenter should be paid 20. The two paint-
The Right Honourable
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN,M.P.,
8cc.
800.