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(b) The following appointments :—
Director of Agriculture, S.S. and F.M.S.
Auditor, S.S. and F.M.S., and Deputy Auditor, S.S. and F.M.S.
Director Adviser, Drainage and Irrigation, and Assistant Adviser, Drain-
age and Irrigation.
Director, Electrical Department, F.M.S.
Director of Forestry, S.S. and F.M.S., and Deputy Director of Forestry,
S.S. and F.M.S.
Director-Adviser, Medical and Health Services, and Deputy Director,
Medical and Health Services.
Senior Warden of Mines, F.M.S. Inspector-General of Police, S.S.
Commissioner of Police, F.M.S.
Director-Adviser, Public Works, and Deputy Director of Public Works. General Manager, Federated Malay States Railways.
Surveyor-General, S.S. and F.M.S., and Deputy Surveyor-General, S.S.
and F.M.S.
13345/4/33 [No. 2].
No. 61.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
FEDERATED MALAY STATES.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR.
(Confidential.)
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SIB,
Downing Street, 29th August, 1933. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatches Confidential* and Confidential (2)† of the 14th July, 1933, regarding the re-organization of the Medical and Health Services and of the Public Works Departments of Malaya, and to inform you that I approve the abolition of the posts of Principal Medical Officer, and of Director of Public Works, Federated Malay States, and the creation of the posts of "Director of Medical and Health Services, Straits Settlements, and Adviser on Medical and Health Services, Malay States," and of "Director of Public Works, Straits Settle- ments, and Adviser on Public Works, Malay States." I approve also of the two latter posts provisionally carrying the salary of $1,350 per mensem, this figure to be subject to my confirmation after I have received your recommendations on the Report of the Committee, presided over by Mr. W. S. Gibson, which is inquiring into the remunera- tion of these and certain other offices.
2. In addition, I approve the appointments of Dr. C. J. Wilson and Mr. G. Sturrock respectively to these two posts with effect from the 1st of January, 1932,
I have, &c.,
P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER.
X. REORGANIZATION OF DEPARTMENTS OF CHINESE AFFAIRS IN THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS AND MALAY STATES.
C. 92096/32 [No. 1].
SIR,
No. 62.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
MALAY STATES.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Confidential.)
(Received 11th May, 1932)
[Answered by No. 63.]
Government House, Singapore, 14th April, 1932.
I HAVE the honour to submit proposals for the reorganization and reclassifica- tion of posts in the Chinese Secretariats of the Straits Settlements and of the Malay States.
* No. 73.
† No. 60.
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2. At the present time there is one Secretary for Chinese Affairs for the Straits Settlements and one for the Federated Malay States. Both officers are graded in Class IA of the Malayan Civil Service and each is the head of one of the two parallel departments of Chinese Affairs in the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States, respectively. The appointments in the Chinese Secretariats under these two officers, respectively, and in the Unfederated Malay States are as follows:-
Straits Settlements,
Protector of Chinese, Singapore
Protector of Chinese, Penang
Assistant Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Straits Settlements Assistant Protector of Chinese, Singapore
2nd Assistant Protector of Chinese, Singapore
Federated Malay States.
Protector of Chinese, Perak
Protector of Chinese, Selangor and Pahang
Protector of Chinese, Negri Sembilan
Assistant Protectors of Chinese (three)
Assistant Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Federated Malay States
Unfederated Malay States.
Johore-Protector of Chinese
Assistant Protector of Chinese
Kedah-Protector of Chinese
Class.
IB
II
II
III
IV
Class.
II
II
III
IV
IV
Class.
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The officers filling these posts are appointed from the general cadre of Chinese- speaking officers of the Malayan Civil Service, and in the case of the Unfederated Malay States are seconded for duty in a particular Malay State.
3. The main duties of the Protectors of Chinese consist in the administration of Ordinances and Enactments which chiefly concern persons of Chinese race. The proper working of the legislation relating to labour especially as it effects Chinese, to the protection of women and girls, to the control of societies and, especially in the Straits Settlements, to the control of immigration, are matters which are the particular concern of the Protector. In addition, the Protector is the officer to whom the administrative head of the Settlement or State looks for advice in any matter which primarily concerns the Chinese inhabiting that Settlement or State.
The two Secretaries for Chinese Affairs have in the past been responsible to Government for the proper working of the Chinese Protectorates in the Straits Settle- ments and the Federated Malay States, respectively. They have also had the grave responsibility of advising their respective governments on the difficult and important questions of Chinese policy, which have tended to come to the fore since the establish- ment of the Chinese Republic in 1911, and which to-day seem likely to be of greater importance to the future political history of Malaya than at any time in the past.
Among such questions may be instanced the policy to be followed to counteract the influence of Chinese nationalist political parties and especially the Kuomintang of China, as well as the influence of Chinese consular officers on Chinese who, from the point of view of local law, are British subjects or British protected persons. Another most important matter which is the concern of these departments is the control over Chinese immigration into Malaya to preserve a sufficient supply of immigrant labour for the basic industries of Malaya, while preventing the influx into Malaya of classes of Chinese who may in the future prove politically undesirable. Equally important are questions connected with Chinese vernacular education in Malaya."
Up to the present time these Secretaries for Chinese Affairs have exercised no direct executive authority over Chinese Protectorates outside the Straits Settlements. and Federated Malay States, though it is usual for them to be consulted, when any important question of Chinese policy arises.
4. The history of the two appointments of Secretary for Chinese Affairs is as follows:-From 1905 to 1914 there was a joint Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Straits
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