N° 291.
Sir,
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RECEIVE!
22 JUNTOSS
30140
2 7
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG.
16th June, 1927.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your despatch No.66 of 16th March, 1927, regarding the conditions of service of Nursing Sisters under this
Government.
2. It has been explained in paragraph 3 of my despatch No.477 of 25th November, 1926, that it is the
object of this Government to confine its European
Nursing Staff to the higher and more administrative
duties of the service, recruiting its rank and filt from
locally trained Chinese and Eurasians who are more economical both directly in the matter of salary and
indirectly in the matter of leave passages and other
privileges. It is moreover the almost universal rule of
this Government to regard the initial term of three years service as providing an adequate test of any officers' suitability for permanent appointment. To reengage for a second tour of three years a Nursing Sister not considered suitable for permanent employment would thus
impede on the one hand the search for suitable candidates
for permanency, and on the other the construction of the
necessary cadre of non-European nurses. Also it would
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.
&C.,
&c.,
&c.
appear