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that an Assistant Superintendent should be selected from the
Police Inspectors and given a similar increase of $360 per
annum. Mr. May did not propose that the Captain Superintend-
ent of Police should receive any extra emolument for the
work of general supervision.
4. These proposals were not carried into
effect without some important modifications. It was decided
that the Captain Superintendent of Police should not merely
supervise the Fire Brigade but that as Superintendent he
should be directly responsible for its efficiency; that he
should himself receive the extra $360 per annum which he had
recommended for each of the Assistants; that the Deputy Su-
perintendent of Police should be Assistant Superintendent ɗ
the Fire Brigade; and that the appointment of a Police Inspect-
or as Second Assistant was unnecessary.
5. In October 1896 Mr.May addressed the Go-
verment on the subject of these alterations in his original
proposals, and strongly urged that they should be reconsidered,
I attach an extract from a letter in which he emphasises his
opinion that in the interests of both the departments under
his control he should be relieved of immediate responsibility
in connection with the Fire Brigade, and relieved also of the
obligation of personal attendance at Fires. He explains his
position with regard to personal attendance more fully in his
minute
"Enclosuret
26th Peto- ber, 1896.