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applies to all/Colonies; yet no other

Colony has yet put-it-forward, a fact which

Would make it all the more difficult for us

to approach the Treasury on behalf of Hong

Kong at this moment;

5.1. In the circumstances it would seem

best to put the proposal for an large increase

in the permanent establishment into cold

storage until we have been able to get the

recommendations of the Salaries Commission

through and until the survey of the services.

with a view to reorganisation has been

carried out)-

67. It is however necessary to consider

whether an increase in the permanent establishment

is required to cover new officers who, in

provide

order to preserve a proper age balance in the

service, it is necessery, as explained in the

despatch, to recruit now. Paragraph 7 of the

despatch points out that Williams, Tsui and

Barlow, when they arrive in the Colony,

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(vide Enclosure no. 3 the depoting will be supernumerary to establishment.

They

can however presumably be held against the posts

of Kennedy-Skipton, Burgess and Fortescue,

[their]

who are not drawing their pay from Hong Kong

funds. (In the same way presumably Follows is

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held against the post of Butters).

There remain

the three pre-war ex-I.C.S. officers whom you

have asked us to recruit (one of whom has in

fact already been selected). If it

held that Clinto

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