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Colonial Secretary's office,
Hongkong, 27th. August, 1906.
I am directed to request you to
be good enough to explain what was the status accorded to
Junior Officers and Officers originally appointed as such
who were serving in any of the Native States when the
Federation of the Malay States occurred and the Cadet
system was introduced into the Service of those States.
2.
Information on the following
points is more particularly desired:-
(1). Were such Junior Officers and Officers
originally appointed as such put on a
par with Cadets and Passed Cadets in
the Straits Settlements
(2). Was it laid down that Cadets and
Junior Officers would be eligible for
promotion in either the Straits Settlements or the Federated Malay States
regardless of which Service they
originally joined, and that they
would rank for seniority from the date
of their first appointments?
The Honourable
The Colonial Secretary,
Singapore.
I have etc.,
(Sd.) T. Sercombe Smith,
Colonial Secretary.
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