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.287233 Despatch No. 327 of 1st. July, 1903, recommended that "no such
rigid line of separation should be drawn between the Police
Cadet and the original Cadet Service as would make it im-
-possible, in special cases, to transfer an Officer from one
branch of the service to another"; while Mr. Lyttelton, when
me 10916/04 replying in Despatch No. 107 of the 8th. April, 1904, which
introduced the Police Probationer System, wrote:- "I have not
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thought it desirable to adopt the suggestion made in Sir Henry
Blake's Despatch No. 327 of the 1st. July last as to the inter-
-changeability of Officers of the Police Service and Cadet
Service as I do not think that Officers appointed Police Pro-
-bationers should have any claim to appointment in the Cadet
Service; but, as indicated in the last paragraph of the
enclosed Notification, Cadet Officers may still be appointed,
if thought fit, to posts in the Police Department". The para-
-graph of the Notification in question reads "moreover some of
the posts included in these classes will not be exclusively
confined to Officers originally appointed as Probationers"; and
this paragraph remains unchanged in the last issue of the
134297/ Notification forwarded in your Despatch No. 5 of 5th. January
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any Bufallast. It is clear, therefore, that although Probationers have
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no claim to Cadet Posts, Cadets (especially those appointed
prior