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prior to 1904)are justified in considering that they still
have a claim to Police posts.
6.
As regards qualification in language Mr.
Hallifax can, of course, speak Cantonese and, as a boy, he also
spoke Hindustani fluently having been born and spent his early
childhood in India. He informs me that he would be perfectly
willing to study Hindustani, as Mr. Badeley did, under the
bonus system, and I have little doubt that he would very rapidly
acquire a sufficient knowledge to enable him to pass the usual
examinations.
7.
There remains the question of pay. This
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does not, however, arise until the retirement of Captain Lyons;
for, until Mr. Badeley's full pay leave ends, Mr. Hallifax will
revert to his own full pay as District Officer, while from the
8th. July next, when Mr. Badeley's full pay leave ends, Mr.
Hallifax will draw half his own pay and half the Sterling pay
provided for the Deputy Superintendent of Police. As regards the
substantive pay of the post it is true that the salary attached
to it before the Sterling Scheme was framed was 83,600 rising to
$4,200 by 8300 triennially, that is to say, the pay of the 3rd.
class. The Sterling salary scheme came into force in 1902 and
under it the post of Deputy Superintendent of Police was raised
from 3rd. to 2nd. class. No dollar salary was, however, attached
to