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than £1500, which will give a full pension of £1000 a year, and it would be rather absurd to pay £1500 and £100 duty allowance. There is no reason for increasing the pay.
We are only proposing to pay the Colonial Secretary of the Straits £1500 + £300 and he holds a far more important and responsible post; owing to the Governor's constant absences in the Malay States the Colonial Secretary at Singapore has to perform numerous cuties as the Governor's deputy. In Hong Kong the Governor is always within 100 yards of the Colonial Secretary's Office.
I should therefore leave things as they are.
? Write on the lines of this minute; ask Sir
F. Lugard to introduce the duty pay system throughout the departments usually recruited in Europe as opportunity offers and tell him that the Secretary of State haa decided to sever the nominal connection with the Malay service (see paragraph 23 of my report).
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