Sir,
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C.O
34943
Rece Reaf 30 OCT
HONG KONG.
September
20th August 1911.
CRA
237
Endl.
I have the honour to request with the greatest respect that for the reasons given below you may be pleased to recon- sider your decision, as conveyed to me both verbally and in the attached letters of the Colonial Secretary dated 14th August 1911 and 18th September 1911: under which I understand
That the post of Deputy Superintendent of Police
is removed from the list of appointments to which Cadet Officers have a preferential claim:
a.
b.
That an exclusive claim to this post is given to
Police Probationers:
C.
That on that account my own claims to this post, which do not rest entirely or even mainly upon
the fact that I am a cadet officer, have been
ruled out: and
a.
2.
That although this post is in the second class,
a dollar officer appointed to fill it will not be
allowed to draw second class dollar pay (that is
a salary at the rate of $4800 rising to $5400 by
triennial increments of $300) but will be re-
quired to draw third cless dollar pay only (that
is $3600 rising to $4200 by the same increments).
I entered the Hong Kong Civil Service as a Cadet Officer
in October 1897: and at that date not only had the Police
Probationer Scheme not been promulgated, but the post of
Deputy Superintendent was filled by a Cadet Officer, Mr.F.J.
Badeley, who had been appointed to it in 1895, and it was
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