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8. Subject to the observations contained in a despatch in which I am replying to your despatch, No. 211, of the 22nd April,* I agree to the rates proposed for the Chinese Medical Officer, New Territory, and the House Surgeon, Tung Wah Hospital. I would also suggest that the salary of the Laboratory Assistant in the Bacteriologi- cal Department should be assimilated to those of the Chinese Medical Officers generally. I understand that the present Assistant has passed through the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, and that the post will usually beheld by a Chinese possessing similar qualifications; and if the salaries were placed on a level, as I suggest, an occasional interchange might be possible, which would very probably be advantageous both to the Medical and to the Bacteriological Department.
9. I am prepared to agree to the rate of salary proposed for the post of District Master (2nd Grade) in the Education Department; but recent experience in obtain- ing Schoolmasters for the Straits Settlements leads me to doubt whether Mr. Irving is justified in his forecast of the possibility of obtaining elementary schoolmasters from this country on this scale of pay.
10. I see no objection to the proposal put forward in paragraph 3 of your despatch in regard to the rearrangement of the staff of Overseers in the Public Works Department. I also approve of the removal of the post of Probationer in the Medical Department from the Sterling Scheme.
11. I approve of the proposals contained in paragraph 6 of your despatch,† relative to Messrs. Carpenter and Haggard.
I have, &c.,
J. CHAMBERLAIN.
• Not priated.
† No. 133.
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