not cureasmably so from their point of crews, if promotion is denied them in the interests
of the fadelis. but if the present port is libe
for to be merged in the post of called the beast Registions Generalshing, of is theupe Regestion.
Gi
to give some status in the service, I is one, which
as the
of
your says,
should be filled by a gentleman
social position" it affears to be aw
apporâtiment "pas excellence" to which fadete should be appointed.
As to 2. The division of Interpreters & Translators
into Classes is borrowed from the Straits
scheme affroved ou
Straits
26903. The proposeden
scale of
Salaries is different from that in price in the Straits, the increments being brinnial & smaller thaw those of the last mentiones Colony, which an triennial. Moreover the
maximum goes up to $2400 a year, instead
of $1800 in the Straits.
Is Lockhart saw no reason why higher Salaries should be given in Hongking than in the Straits so we might perhaps ath
it has been found necessary to pay the why scales of higher in Hongkong.
I think the proposed increase of his Li-hong. mis
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22317--3000-10-99
Salary should be approved. As 2nd Interpreter
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he might will be allowed $2400 a year, this $2,000
present Salary is H2000) whatever maxiincem
be eventually fixed for the rack & file of the 1st Class Interpreters &
Translators.
The total estimated annual increase involved
is about $13,000, partly due
in this scheme
to the increas of Salaries, but partly also to
appts, e.g
Charge
new
there are
to be seven naar
Room Interpreters in the Police Dept.
a
to them
The gour should, I thich, be questioned necessity for all there now affits, for it wasub is aussiable if to reduce the additional expenditione for as possible.
As tos. I quite agree
I quite agree that it is not worth while getting in Subordinate Luropeau Interpreters, always provided the whole Defic is superirsed by a Suropean, Arst
Registrar general, 2rid An't or whoever he may be. As to 4. The training of Student Interpreters is an matter which we must leave to the troughing Gov't.
? Approve this scheme
God
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a
whole
8 suggest
a
Sub Deft of the
making the Intepretation Deft