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emoluments of similar officers else here. I consider that $20,000 would be an adequate salary for the Colonial Secreta -ry. I have never fully grasped the reasons for which the salary of a Chief Justice is usually made considerably larger than that of a Colonial Secretary and I should have been disposed to advise that here also 820,000 was sufficient. If, however, it is desired to maintain the existing practice of paying the Chief Justice at a higher rate, I suggest a salary of £24,000. For the Attorney-General I suggest 818,000 and for the Puisne Judge $16,000 or $16,500.
11.
In considering other appointments it
will be convenient to follow the same order in which they are
set out in Mr. Severn's Confidential Despatch of lat May.*
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
I do not share Mr. Severn's view that
Government Officers should be entitled to free medicul attendance in their private bouses and I do not advocate any i change in the existing system in this respect. As regards salaries, I would place the Principal Civil Medical Officer on a scale of $10,000 rising by $500 annually to $12,000, though I should not be indisposed to agree to the maximum being raised to $13,000, if Your Lordship oonsiders that $12,000 is insufficient. For the present I think that the Principal Civil Medical Officer should continue to look after the Victoria Hospital for Women as owing to the small size of the Colony the supervisory duties to which a Principal Civil Medical Officer is usually confined are scarcely sufficient to occupy his time; but I do not think that this arrangement can be permanent as medical institu- -tions of the Colony will certainly increase in number (e.g. I m hoping to establish a General Hospital in Kowloon in the near future and also a convict establishment on the mainland to which it will be necessary to attach a hospital) and the Principal Civil Medical Officer will
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