No.
511.
Hongkong.
44093
531
REC
Rea? 7 DEC 03
Government House,
Hongkong, 6th. November, 1903.
sir.
I recently referred the question of in-
creasing the Police Force to the Colonial Secretary and Acting
Captain Superintendent of Police for report, and I have now
the honour to inform you that this question has been carefully
considered by the Colonial Secretary and Captain Lyons, who
had under date of the 29th. September asked that 50 Chinese
Police might be temporarily engaged and paid for out of lap-
sing salaries in the Department in order to tide over the
season immediately preceding the Chinese New Year, when there
is usually an accession of crime.
2.
It is found that owing to the extension
of the area of the City by the Praya Reclamation which is now
largely built over, the extensive building that has taken
place on the new roads on the upper levels (Macdonell and
Conduit Roads) and extensions of the City Eastwards the addition
of 21 night beats and 17 day beats in the City of Victoria
is required. To keep these beats covered 55 men are required,
while 14 additional men are wanted to cover new beats and
patrols in the Kowloon Peninsula rendered necessary by the
large additions of buildings that have been made there recently.
Owing
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE
COLONIES.