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have been printed in italics, as that of the additional
Member of the Court is. (Mr Gompertz is Assistant Colonial Secretary). The Member's salary is reduced
by $3,000, fewer sittings being required. In this case, it is not clear why an additional Registrar should be appointed, on the same salary as the Regis-
trur; and we do not seem to have heard about Mr Wolfe's
to this new fost expointment/ The staff of demarcators is cut down
efer to the ucation
Despatch
CPR
from 49 to 6, with a reduction from 140 to 30 Coolies
"owing to the progress made in demarcation work".
Eccleciastical, increase $200! This is in the Protestant Chaplain allowance and we approved
it.
Education, increase $51,837. More than half
of this is exchange compensation. New appointments,
Mr Young Lee at $1,800; the staff of the Kowloon
British School, at $5,361.81. $2,291 for two Junior Masters at Queen's College, paid in sterling. (They have not provided for the second English Master and
Supervisor, who will cost $2,945; we must tell them.) There is also a vote of $20,000 for the Chinese High School "and other improvements in the Educational
system"; the Governor ought to be told not to be in a hurry to spend this. On the other hand, they save $6,800 odd by the closing of the Belilios Reformatory. There is nothing here to criticise.
Medical Departments. Increase, $82,200, or 56%. $27,000 is exchange compensation, and $4,100 is due to placing salaries on a sterling basis. The
opening of the Victoria Hospital for Women and Children will cost about $35,500. The closing of the Female
Venereal