Superintendent of Police for the New Territory should be appointed at a salary of $3,600 to be selected from the Punjabi Police —
but he apparently
thinks
that he
could li
Before
approving that proposal we asked for further confirmation which is here supplied. The
The Governor now wants this Indian Police Officer in addition to Mr. Hallifax,
that he wants such an officer be appointed instead of Mr. Hallifax, because Mr. Hallifax has now been appointed Magistrate for the New Territory; and although on the Draft Estimates (p.39) provision is made for two new Asst Superintendents, it is explained by a footnote that
one of these Officers is required for the New Territory
& the other for Victoria.
I submit that we should approve the proposal in para 4
to
on the terms proposed
appoint an Assistant Supt of the Gaol
I that in case
of
the Police Dept being the ablest, the Supt & Deputy Superintendent of Police being thus relieved
of part of their duties we have sufficient
reason for appointing
and
reason has been
an Asst Supt for the Town of Victoria, that one Asst Supt will be sufficient for the New Territory.
For this last appt I submit that a passed cadet should
be appointed, who should be
required to learn Mandarin,
of $1200
at a
commencing
Salary of $2400. I do not see any necessity for confirming I shall send Officer from the Indian Police for the post which course has not been found necessary
in the Straits Settlements where
they also have Indian Police, and I see special
objections to getting
to if we
get an Indian Police Officer in getting him for $3600
the reasons are that;
there
Incremental
other Salary
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would be little chance of promoting him in the Service, though not an absolute
bar where the cadet service
has a prior claim to outsiders—
The Governor has appointed Mr. Hallifax, a very junior Officer, to be Magistrate in the New Territory; using reasons Expenses but I gather from para 6 of 2009h that this appt must be merely temporary
? On this point I reply that as
the case of his successor
is not submitted for approval by Chamberlain
it assumes
that it is
merely
a
temporary arrangement
& that he will later
recommend
a
more experienced Officer for this important
post.
Private Secretary
G.W.J 14/11/99
Seen
9.8.
14
14 Nov
So write.
almie
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