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NOTES FOR THE INFORMATION OF CADETS

POLICE PROBATIONERS APPOINTED STRAITS SETTLEMENTS AND FEDERATED MALAY STATES.

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C.O. 882

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The following notes have been prepared in order to give Cadets and Police Probationers selected for service in the Straits Settle- ments and Federated Malay States the benefit of the experience of their predecessors as regards clothing, baggage, uniforms, sport and games, plenishing of quarters, &c., &c.

Mr. Belfield has given much useful information of this kind in his Handbook on the Federated Malay States, but it can be usefully supplemented by hints received from the Cadets and Police Probationers of recent years giving what they themselves would like to have known before coming out.

I.-CLOTHING.

All should be brought except such articles as frock-coats, morning coats, tall hats, &c. Thick tweed suits and under clothing will be required as far as Port Said (also see note as to Police Probationers).

A good number of evening shirts should be taken (say 15 to

18) as it is usual to dress for dinner in the first saloon of the principal lines of mail steamers and it is not possible to get clothes washed on the voyage, except perhaps at Colombo, when there is time, though a certain amount of washing is done on the North German Lloyd and Nippon Yusen Kaisha Steamers.

Also take a good supply (say a dozen) soft shirts to wear with collar, and some cricket shirts. As regards the latter it will be found best and cheapest after arrival to get Japanese crêpe shirts locally.

Two lounge suits of the lightest material should be brought, one, say, of dark blue, which will be very useful, and another of a lighter colour. They should not be lined more than is absolutely

necessary.

It will be found that for ordinary day-wear on the voyage out after Port Said a flannel suit of any colour or a loose unlined coat of thin tweed or flannel and white flannel trousers with soft shirt aud collar, or cricket shirt, is the most convenient and comfort- able dress.

Also bring plenty of the lightest underwear of India gauze or some similar texture.

II.-HATS.

Bring any straw or terai bats you have, but do not buy a sug hat at Home. Wait until you reach Colombo or the Straits Settlements.

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