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present basis.
It will be noticed that provision for
the Cadet Service, Senior Clerical Service
and Accounting Staff, and Junior Clerical
Service is now made under the various Departmental
heads. The suggestion that provision for the
Clerical Services should be made in this way
was contained in our despatch No.47 of 15.2.32 ( (9) on 90284/32 General) and Hong Kong have
wisely decided to treat the Cadet Service in
the same way. G.D. have already been informed
of the change by minute on the General file. In his speech introducing the estimates, the
Colonial Secretary drew attention to the fact
that the new method of providing the salaries
of these services under the various Departmental
heads made it necessary for caution to be exercised
in the interpretation of some parts of the
estimates, as non-technical officers on leave
would in future have to be shown under the De-
partments with which they were last serving,
though in fact they might well no longer have any
connection with those particular Departments,
and might be transferred elsewhere on return
from leave. In spite of this minor difficulty,
I think that the new arrangement is a great
improvement.
It will be noticed that $358,064 is
provided for new posts as against a decrease of only $127,014 on account of posts abolished. Increases of staff which are worthy of notice
have been provided for in the Police Department
and the Medical Department.
Expenditure under Head 25, Education
Department