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were withdrawn from regular duty for the anti-Communist
section in 1931. One Constable is required for the
Traffic Department in Kowloon. Five more detectives
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are required for the Yaumati and Shanshuipo districts
which continue to spread. One Cetective is required
for Kowloon City, and two for the eastern district of
Hong Kong. One is required for Castle Peak which is
a not unimportant centre with its ferry, brickworks and
large number of bathing sheds. All these increases
are a direct result of the development and expansion
that has been going on throughout the Colony.
Frovision is made for an Assistant Superintendent for
the Anti-Piracy Guards. It is hoped to open the Remand
Home for Juveniles at the end of this or the beginning
of next year, as soon as the necessary alterations have
been made to the building which it is proposed to use
for the purpose.
The requisite staff, which may have
to be modified in the light of experience, is shewm at
the foot of page 52.
Honourable embers will no doubt recollect
that a reduction of five posts of European warders in the Prison Department was made in the 1932 Estimates
and that Government undertook to retrench five more
posts. Two of these five posts now disappear, and it is anticipated that the remaining three will have been
reduced by the end of 1933, as a result of leaving
vacancies unfilled as they occur.
The ten additional
temporary