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transfer of Mr. Bullock to the Colonial Secretary's Office
should take place shortly before Mr. Crofton's departure
in order that the new 2nd. clerk may have the opportunity
of being instructed by the Chief Clerk in the routine work
of the Department.
7.
Subject to Your Lordship's approv-
-al, I have therefore made provision in next year's
Estimate for the salary of a 2nd. clerk in the Colonial
Secretary's Office at the rate of £300 per annum. This will
not involve an immediate increase in the expenditure of
that Department as Mr. Craig's present salary is equivalent
to £306 per annum.
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I have found some difficulty in
deciding what to do with Mr. Craig. For the present I
propose to employ him as Land Bailiff, since the Land
Officer informs me that an urgent necessity exists for
the services of such a man in the Southern District of the
New Territories. I am advised that it will be necessary to
provide in the Estimates of next year for this post, and
meanwhile Mr. Craig is being paid from lapsing salaries.
The post of Principal Clerk in the Sanitary Department
of which the substantive holder was Mr. C. F. V. Bowen-
-Rowlands
has now been abolished. I hope that it may be
possible