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ONG KONG
and Class I in Hong Kong as compared with the same
classes in Ceylon and the Straits.
439
(The service in each
case is reckoned up to the time when each officer receiv-
ed a post in Class I).
CEYLON.
1.Secretary cadet)..
11
18 yrs.
Col, Secretary
(non-cadet).
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
Col. Secretary
19 yrs. (non-cadet).
16 yr
reasurer...
13 yrs.
Treasurer,
27 yrs. Treasurer.
22 yrs
egistrar General..
15 yrs.
Auditor Gen.....
26 yrs
Auditor Gen....
2 yrs
Irzt Magistrate... 14 yrs
Govt. Agent... Central Province
54 yrs. Res. Councilior Ponang.
25 yrs
t. Superintendent Police.
12 yrs.
Principal Collector
Resident Councillor
26 yrs
of Customs.... .22 yrs. Malacca.
(in the case of Ceylon, the last two posts are
taken as the two cases in which an officer has got into
Class 1 in the shortest time.
The service of the Colonial Secretary, Straits,
is reckoned up to the time when he became Auditor General
of Ceylon).
These results are sufficiently startling,
think. If we had acceded to the recommendations to
appoint cadets in the case of the appointments of which this memorial complains, we could have produced something
equally