Enclosure 3,
COOP Y,
Education Department,
Hongkong, 16th August, 1906.
RECEIVED
Pcc 17 NOV 06
Sir,
Referring to your letter 5749/1906 in which His Excellency has ruled that I have not the status of a Cadet Officer, and am not qualified for promotion, I have the honour to draw attention to the following facts, and respectfully ask that they may be considered, and this ruling reconsidered.
In 1891 I was appointed by Sir Cecil Clementi Smith, then Governor of the Straits Settlements, to be a Junior Officer in the State of Perak. A Junior Officer was then the term used to describe what are now called Cadets. The appointment was one requiring the sanction of the Secretary of State for the Colonies. As the services of the Malay States were not at that time open to public competition, this was the manner in which alone it was possible to enter them.
When some years later the Malay States were federated, the position of Junior Officers and officers originally appointed as such was assured by putting...
The Honourable
The Colonial Secretary.