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of the temporary appointment of Mr. J. R. Wood as Assistant
Land Officer for the Southern District of the New Territo-
-ries on a non-incremental salary of $3,600, I have the
honour to refer Your Lordship to paragraph 7 of Sir
Matthew Nathan's Despatch No. 52 of the 6th. March, 1905,
in which it is anticipated that this additional Assistant
Land Officer will be permanently required. The Land
Officer now reports that he sees no chance of being able
to dispense with an Assistant Land Officer for the
Southern District of the New Territories, and recommends
that the appointment should be made permanent at the same
salary as that of the Assistant Land Officer of the North-
-ern District. In this opinion I concur and I would
further recommend that Mr. Wood and Mr. Messer should draw
their first increment as from the 30th. of next August.
6.
No Cadets on sterling salaries
are immediately affected, for Mr. Wood and Mr. Messer have
declined to accept the sterling salary scheme, as has also
Mr. Ro83,
who was recommended in Mr. May's Dospatch of the
15th. June, 1907, for the vacancy created by Mr. Messer's
promotion to be Head of the Sanitary Department. Mr. May's
recommendations were endorsed in ry Despatch of the 8th.
November,
1907, and have been approved in Lord Elgin's telegram