PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
TEC.O. 882
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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Sand Magistaste, konla Lumpur “ 141.
Collector of Food Revenue, Batu Gajah “cle,
• District Officer. Temerloh " (r).
Deputy Superintendent of Indian Immigrants "udi
Assistant Superintendent d'Indian Immigrants, Klang å for Selangor an i
Nagu Sembilan
1.
Second Assistant District Officer, Larut" (7.
Magistrate, Kuala Lumpur."
Registrar of Supreme Court."
Deputy Publie Prosentors (two)."
Assistant Distri 1 Officer. Kinta."
'Transferred
tlass [L.
The Chairman nad Secretary of the Sanitary Board, Kinta South, will in future be known as “Assistant District Officer, Kampar, and Chairman of the Sanitary Boards of Batu Gajah, Gopeng, and Kampar,” də it is proposed to make some changes in the nature 4 his duties and tie station him at kampar, where the presence of a European officer is reded.
Volte.
04,4 The secoard magistracy, Kuala Lumpur, should be raised in status for the same reasons as apply in the case of the magistracy. 4.) It is proposed to substitute the post of Collector of Land Revenue. Batu Graja for that Assistant District Officer, Batu Gajah," now in
Class A.
(e) The District Officer, Temerloh, is in charge of a district which has greatly incressed in impertance and is likely to become still more important in the near future with the opening up of Pahang by means of the new
railway.
675 and (e.) The creation of the post of Deputy Superintendent of Indian Immigrants and the raising of the status of the post of Assistant Superintendent have already been approved.
(4.) The Second Assistant District Officer, Larut," will become "Assistant District Officer, Larut," the present Assistant District Officership having hern made a District Officership (sce Class II, Note (e) ).
CLASS V.
Add:-
Second Assistant Superintendent of Indian Immigrants, Selangor and
Negri Sembilan " (4).
Sceond Assistant District Officer, Larut " (l).
Remare:
*Second Magistrate, Kuala Lumpur,”
District Officer, Temerloh."
Assistant Superintendent of Indian Immigrants, Klang.”
Assistant District Officer, Batu Gajah."
Second Assistant Secretary to Resident General" (c).
Second Assistant District Officer, Krisn" (d).
Transferred to Class IV.
Notes.--(a.) The creation of this appointment has been approved.
(6.) This new appointment is necessary owing to the changes in the adminis-
tration of the Larut and Krian Districts already referred to.
(e.) An unnecessary post.
(d.) This post will cease to exist owing to the substitution of a District Officer, Krian Class III), and an Assistant District Officer (Class IV), for two Assistant District Officers.
The following posts should also be removed from the list of Class V appointments :-
"State Treasurer, Negri Sembilan."
“State Treasurer, Pahang.”
"Assistant Revenue Auditor, Selangor, Negri Sembilan, and Pubang." "Second Assistant District Officer, Kuala Kangsar."
*
Assistant District Officer, Kuala Pilah.”
· Assistant District Officer, Ulu Langat."
"Assistant District Officer, Tanjong Malim."
"Assistant District Officer, Matang.'
**Second Assistant District Officer, Tapah."
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The duties of these appointments-and it may perhaps be possible to add some others to this list—are not of sufficient importance to justify the employment in them of officers of the Cadet service, and they should in future be classed with those posts which now appear in the Salary scheme as
The * Additional appointments open to Cadets,” three financial appointments should be given to specially meritorious members of the clerical service or to persons of similar status, and the Assistant District Officerships should be filled either by selected Settlement Officers or by Malay gentlemen. Salaries of from £399 to £350 with a duty allowance of £30 or £75 would be amply sufficient.
Probably in the first instance it will be necessary to continue to employ Cadet officers in soine at least of these posts, but within the next few years there should be an adequate supply of well-qualified Malays who have been educated at the Kuala Kangsar School and are fully competent to discharge the duties of the Assistant District Officer- ships, included in this list. When this supply becomes available, no further appointments of Cadets should be made to these posts or to those now include in the list of * Additional appointments."
22. If these recommendations are accepted, the distribution of appointments in the various classes will be as shown below.
For convenience I have assigned two of the three joint appointments to the Federated Malay States and one to the Straits Settlements.
I have reckoned the Auditor-Generalship of the Colony as belonging to Class II, to which it is to be reduced on the occurrence of a vacancy.
Class 1 and Residents Class 11
Class III
Class IV ('lass V
Straite Settlement-.
Federated Malay States.
Combined Service.
3
10
13
12
11
23
11
24
35
11
22
15
26
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This classification shows a very even balance between the senior and the junior appointinents, there being 71 of the former and 74 of the latter, and the fact that some of the senior posts are not confined to Cadet officers is more than counterbalan 'ed by the chances of the appointment of Cadet officers to posts outside the classification, e.g. to such offices as Judicial Commissioner in the Federated Malay States, President of the Municipality of Singapore or Penang, or Adviser in one of the Malay States not included in the Federation. A service graded in this manner will offer very satisfactory prospects
to those who enter it, especially if care is taken to keep as low as possible the number of Cadets appointed in any one year-a point to which perhaps sufficient attention has not always been paid in the past.
23. I should perhaps have included in the foregoing calculation the appointments in the Cadet service of Hong Kong, since that service is nominally combined with that of the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States, but I have not done so, partly because of the difficulties caused by differences of classification and salary, but mainly because I am strongly of opinion that the time bus now come to put an end to the nominal connection. It has never had any logical basis, as the circumstances of the two countries are entirely different, and, as a matter of fact, it has always been practically ignored. The only officer of the Cadet service of Hong Kong who has been transferred to the Malay Peninsula during the time that the services have theoretically been united, was appointed to a Puisne Judgeship in the Straits Settlements. This post is outside the Cadet service, and the transfer could equally well have been affected if the nominal connection had not existed. During the same period there have, I think, been five instances of transfer from the Cadet service in the Malay Peninsula to Hong Kong, but of the officers affected two were unpassed Cadets, who might have been transferred even if the services had been entirely separate-just as a Cadet in the Federated Malay States was transferred to Ceylon a few years ago—and one of the other three was appointed to the Postmaster-Generalship, which had previously been held by an officer not belonging to the Cadet service. There remain, therefore, only two cases of transfer which can be regarded as due directly to the connection between the two services, and it seems clear that the actual results of the theoretical amalgamation have not been such as to afford any practical justification of an illogical arrangement. The nominal connection has really never served any purpose except to point an argument or adorn a memorial, and I submit that it will be best to recognise facts and to abstain in future from holding
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