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mention that in connection with the promotions resulting from the appointment of Sir F.H.May to be Colonial Secretary and of Mr.F.J.Badeley to be Captain Superintendent of Police, the Officer Administering the Government recommended me in 1902 for the vacant post of Deputy Superintendent, and I was in fact appointed in 1903 and 1904 to act as Deputy Superinten- dent of Police, while in the latter year I held for a short time the post of Captain Suparintendant.
With regard to my qualifications for Police work, I beg to
refer you to the record of my services in this Colony, and to
the official comments which have from time to time been made
thereon: and I venture to add that the charge of the New
Territories during the first nine years after the Lease in-
volved a great deal more, and more varied, original and
responsible Police work than did any of the junior posts on
the Island of Hong Kong itself.
My second submission is therefore that even if I had no
preferential claim as a Cadet Officer, my past services and
the experience I have gained of Police work in the Colony
have qualified me for appointment to the post of Deputy
Superintendent of Police.
4. It is on record and is weighed against me, that I here
refused promotion to two second class appointments: both
carrying salaries on the dollar basis, as I shall submit later
that the post of Deputy Superintendent of Police in my case
should also carry. The one post was Head of the Sanitary
Department: I was permitted to refuse this: 3, the work not
being as congenial as Police work, I considered I could afford
to wait the little longer necessary for the promotion in the
Police Force which I had for so many years been led to expect:
the vacancy was in sight.
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