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(5.) Mr. Burn-Murdoch strongly supports what I have said in my paragraph 6 as to the inadvisability of placing the Government Experimental Gardens under his control.
His Excellency
The High Commissioner,
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Federated Malay States, Singapore.
I have, &c.,
W. H. TREACHER,
Resident-General,
Federated Malay States.
No. 122.
FEDERATED MALAY STATES.
HIGH COMMISSIONER SIR F. A. SWETTENHAM to MR. CHAMBERLAIN. (Received January 10, 1903)
(No. 505.)
Government House, Singapore, December 17, 1902.
SIB,
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge your despatch, Native States, No. 329, of 24th October,* concerning the Scheme of Sterling Salaries, and I have noted your approval of a salary of £2,260, with an entertainment allowance of £240, for the Resident-General. The officer who draws this salary will not be entitled to count the value of his quarters for pension purposes, he will pay rent for the furniture in his principal residence, and the only other emoluments attaching to his office will be a horse allowance at $300 per annum for each horse maintained, not exceeding four in all. There will be one caretaker provided by the Government to look after the house and furniture.
2. I will request the Resident-General to make an announcement to the effect that appointments to the posts of Resident-General and the Residents in each State are staff appointments, and that it is not intended that vacancies in these posts will always be supplied from the Civil Services of the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States.
Your paragraph 3 will be acted upon.
4. As regards paragraph 6 of your despatch under reply, the paragraph 3 of the memorandum attached to the Sterling Scheme has the meaning you imply, but it means rather more than this. The intention is that as the Sterling Scheme was drawn without reference to individuals, and as the sterling value of certain posts has been considerably raised and some have even been put in higher classes, it followed that it would have been impossible without injustice to let every individual claim the sterling salary of the post which he happened to be holding at the time the scheme came into force. Paragraph 3 was therefore written to warn officers that though no one would be offered a lower sterling salary than the equivalent of his present dollar salary, it would be necessary to make certain changes in posts in order that their new sterling rates should be drawn by officers who had the best claim to them. This is perfectly understood in the Federated Malay States, and I have not heard a word of protest. In the Colony I do not think there is any case of the kind.
5. Paragraph 7 of the memorandum will be altered in accordance with your recent decision and the entertainment allowances of Residents will be expressed in sterling. These allowances are not pensionable.
6. I have informed the Resident-General of the instructions contained in paragraph 9 of your despatch under reply, and though I have not yet received any reply from him, I expect that he will point out to me that officers engaged some time ago for similar posts did not receive such favourable terms, and there will no doubt he a request from them to be put on the same footing as those last engaged.
I have, &c.,
F. A. SWETTENHAM.
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No. 123. FEDERATED MALAY STATES.
THE EARL OF ONSLOW (FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE) to HIGH COMMISSIONER SIR F. A. SWETTENHAM. [Answered by No. 130.]
(No. 23.)
SIR,
Downing Street, January 14, 1903.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 493, of the 11th ultimo,* in regard to the proposed scheme of sterling salaries for the Forest Department of the Federated Malay States.
2. In view of the explanations furnished in your despatch under acknowledg- ment, I approve generally the scheme put forward in your despatch, No. 295, of the 12th August last.f
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As regards the salary of the Conservator, I agree to your proposal that it should be fixed at £800, rising by triennial increments of £100 to £1,000, on the understanding that that officer will be appointed permanently, and not merely lent by the Government of India.
4. I am not sure that the Federated Malay States Government is compelled to depend entirely upon India for a supply of forest officers, as officers with forest training and experience elsewhere could be selected in this country.
5. An arrangement was recently made with the authorities of the R.I.E.C., Cooper's Hill, whereby a candidate who had failed to secure a place at the competition for admission to the Indian Forests Department was trained at the college and abroad, at the expense of the Government of Ceylon, whose service he has now entered. A similar arrangement might be adopted in the case of the Federated Malay States, if necessary, and an officer appointed in this way to one of the junior posts might eventually prove himself qualified for the appointment of Conservator.
6. I approve the appointment of Mr. W. H. Craddock to be Deputy Conservator, and that of Mr. W. R. French to be Assistant Conservator of Forests in Pahang.
7. I agree that the Superintendents of the Experimental Plantations, Selangor, and the Government Gardens, Perak, should not be placed under the Conservator of Forests; and that the question of granting a third increment to officers in the junior posts of the Department may be deferred for the present.
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I have, &c.,
(FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE),
ONSLOW.
FEDERATED MALAY STATES.
THE EARL OF ONSLOW (FOR THE SECRETARY of State) to HIGH COMMISSIONER SIR F. A. SWETTENHAM. (No. 25.)
Downing Street, January 16, 1903.
SIR,
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 484, of the 10th ultimo, on the subject of the three appointments of Assistant Commissioner of Police in Selangor and Negri Sembilan and at Taiping.
2. It appears to me that it would tend to simplify the classification of the Service if these three posts were removed from List B to List A, and there marked with a star, as not confined to cadets. This is indeed already done in the case of the other superior Police appointments.
3. List A being the list of "appointments open to cadets," it is more logical to include in that list all posts to which cadets can be appointed; and to confine
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