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To our despatch on 63221/22/Straits
Hong Kong
about the provision by the Crown Agents of passages for certain newly appointed officers Ceylon has already replied (16518/Ceylon) to the effect that the C.A. should in future book
second-class
"A passages by P.& 0. Mail steamers
when intermediate boats are not available (and unless there is strong reason to the contrary in any particular case) for those officers who, before the war, were entitled to second-class passages by mail steamers or first-class mail by intermediate steamers P.& 0.
The 8.8. have replied, (52658/Straits) that the practice during the last few years has been for cadets, professional officers on the $400 to $800 scale, police probationers, and nurses to be provided with first-class, and for other officers to be provided with second-class passages; and recommend that this arrangement should be continued for the present.
Hong Kong reply that there is no difficulty in the case of officers formerly entitled to first-class mail passages and of subordinate officers entitled to second-class
aikymai
passages and that the
passages should, where possible, be booked by P. & 0.; but the Governor considers that officers who, under the
old arrangement e, would have travelled by intermediate P.& 0., should not be compelled to travel second-class mail, and that such officers should now be provided with passages either by first-class P.& 0. or other lines, at the
at hu discretion of the C.A., wireference to the
Grown Agent if necessary.
Crownl offe