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ONFIDENTIAL.
Hongkong.
¡RECE
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Government Re APR 06
Hongkong, 7th. March, 1906.
299
My Lord,
Goo 12016
In the 3rd. paragraph of my Des-
-patch No. 46 dated 28th. February last, dealing with the
leave-pay to Mr. A. W. Grant on account of the Assistant
Mastership of the Police School, I have the honour to
state that I proposed to bring under Your Lordship's
consideration the question of the tenure of appointments
in that school.
2.
The Police School first appeared
in the Estimates for 1873 as an item of $2,400 under the
head of "Allowances" and so remained till 1891 when the
same item was entered under "Other Charges". The amounts
of the salaries of Master in charge and Assistant Master,
paid out of this open Vote, were all along $600 and $480
respectively. In 1898 these salaries were held to be
pensionable and the Executive Council approved of Exchange
Compensation being added to them at the rate of 3 shillings
to
RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,
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