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Malay States. Nor have I any reason to sup-
pose that the prospects of passed and unpassed
cadets in either place obtaining substantive
appointments at an early date is better or
worse than that of cadets in Hong Kong.
15. 16.
J
I think that the rapidity with which
cadet officers have risen in the Hong Kong
Service dvd in the past has perhaps given
recently-appointed cadets a wrong impression
Prospects of
as to their plaims to speedy promotion. Offi-
cers of the Hong Kong service possibly do not
thes realise how exceptionally rapid/promotion has
rapid/promo
been.
The following table shows roughly the
number of years that have elapsed between the
appointment to their respective Colonies of
Officers now holding the highest positions in
Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements and Ceylon,
and their first substantive appointments to
Class I posts:-