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involve the discharge of duties that are very similar, and the statement contained in your Despatch Hong Kong No.75 of March 9th 1911, published in the Colony as a Service Circular, can only have been founded on a misapprehension of the actual routine work or the Department. It runs :-
"The same argument applies partially to the post of "Captain Superintendent of Police, but not to the same 19 extent since the Commandant of the Force does not require
"the same amount of practical experience of Police work "as his subordinates"
The undeniable fact is that there is hardly an hour of any day when the Captain Superintendent is not called upon to deal per- sonally with the minutest details in the management of the
Force: he is in the closest actual touch with the entire work-
ing of each branch of his Department.
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If I am excluded from the post of Deputy Superintendent of
Police, the best fortune I could now hope for would be that I
should act whenever opportunity offers in first class posts,
as His Excellency the Governor has decided that I am to act
in November next, and as I have already acted on several
occasions in posts, such as lst Police Magistrate, Registrar
General and Captain Superintendent of Police. My position
however would still compare unfavourably with that of other
dollar officers holding second class posts: for such lat
class acting appointments could not in their nature be con-
tinuous, and yet in any whole year under the best possible
conditions, I should draw only $200 above the salary of a
second class post at its minimum, with no security to justify
lessing a house, with the probability of frequent moves, and
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