Registrar-General's Office.
349
· First Interpreter
Second
do
$66
40
do
$106.
E. Interpreter C1.I $200.
Translator C1.I 200
C1.III 60
$460
POLICE
Third Clerk
$ 50.
Interpreter C1.II $100
Charge Room Inter-
preters 19 (01.1 $30) 670-
7(01.11$25)
175.
Charge Room Inter-
preters 26 (01.III)
$45
1170
$795.
$1270
9/81
E.
The Secretary of State wrote in Despatch No.
"
24 of 22nd. February 1881:- "As regards interpretation for
other than legal purposes, it should be remembered that
cadets are carefully educated in Chinese with the express
purpose of training a staff of officers who will be able
to dispense with the assistance of interpreters This
is all very well as regards the transaction of ordinary
There are numerous occasions on which business, but it is indispensible that his views should
be expressed in polished and correct language. Apart from
these the service of a first-class interpreter are re-
quired at public and semi-official functions and by The
Governor. I purpose that the interpreter in the R.G.0.
should be proficient in Cantonese and Mandarin.
8 Department
Sanitary