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and Pahang, have been retained, and the remaining three-the Assistant Commissioners, Selangor, Negri Sembilan and Taiping-have been trans- ferred to the List of Professional Appointments, in accordance with His Excellency's instructions."
4. In the absence of Mr. l'ountney on leave I am unable to discover how these Your Excellency appointments came to be omitted from the Professional Scheme. will, however, recollect that Mr. Pountney's health broke down in December, and can only presume that the interruption caused by his illness and the fact that the work had to be entrusted to other hands resulted in Your Excellency's instructions regarding these Police Appointments being overlooked, since they do not appear in any printed professional list.
5. When sanctioned by Your Excellency, the appointments of Assistant Com- missioners of Police, Selangor and Negri Sembilan, were in Class V., and the appoint- ment of Assistant Commissioner of Police, Taiping, was in Class VI., of the Cadet Service, I have, therefore, recommended in my telegram that they should be entered in the Professional List on the salaries accorded to Classes V. and VI., of the Cadet Scheme as finally settled.
I have, &c.,
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of £60, but, on the other hand, I would lose £85 while on leave, and, what is more important, in case of being invalided, my pension would be considerably reduced, as I should draw it at 3s. instead of 3s. 8d. to the dollar.
Again, should I ever be promoted to wing commander, the sterling salary offered being the same as the dollar salary at present drawn, viz., £450 per annum, the loss on full pay leave would be at the rate of £150 per annum, and on half pay at the rate of £75 per annum, and the pension very much reduced.
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I would also respectfully ask to point out how disadvantageous the terms offered
to the officers of the Malay States Guides are compared to those offered to other professions.
Take as an instance the Police. Up to the time of the promulgation of the present sterling scheme, I was drawing the same salary as that shown in the estimates for the Assistant Commissioners of Police, Pahang, Selangor and Negri Sembilan, viz., 2,400 per annum.
Under the sterling scheme the salary of Assistant Commissioner, Pahang, is shown at £540, rising to £600, and the Assistant Commissioners, Selangor and Negri Sembilan, at £420, rising to £480. These officers have also the prospects of pro- motion to the Deputy Commissionerships, rising from £660 to £780.
W. H. TREACHER,
Resident-General,
Federated Malay States.
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I have, &c.,
H. W. DENISON ADAM,
Captain,
3rd Battalion, The Border Regiment, and Målay States Guides.
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His Excellency
The High Commissioner,
Federated Malay States,
Singapore.
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SIR,
No. 102.
FEDERATED MALAY STATES.
CAPTAIN II. W. D. ADAM to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received October 14, 1902.)
[Answered December 29, 1902 (52568); not printed,]
Invergordon, Rickmansworth, Herts. Wrrn reference to scheme for sterling salaries, copy of which I have received, I would ask to point out how unfavourably I have been placed for some years to come under the scheme, and would ask if I cannot be offered better terms.
I am the senior wing officer of the Guides, having served in the force since its formation. I have four more years' service than any of the other wing officers, and am the only one still serving as wing officer of the wing officers originally appointed. I am shown, in Appendix B, as wing officer (1) dollar salary per annum 2,100, equals, at 3s. to the dollar, £315 per annum, whereas I am actually drawing 2,400 dollars per annum (having a personal allowance of 300 dollars per annum on account of length of service) or an equivalent of £360 per annum sterling.
The remaining wing officers shown in Appendix B benefit under the scheme, as they all at present draw 3s, to the dollar for service and leave, but as I draw my leave pay at 4s, to the dollar, I think I can make it clea. to you that for some years to come I am liable to lose cousiderably should I accept the terms offered.
As I have six years' service in the Malay States Guides, I presume my salary under the triennial increment scale would be £300 per annum, or exactly the same amount as I am at present drawing, so that for the next three years I receive no benefit from the scheme, but rather the reverse, for should 1, on account of ill-health or any other urgent reason, be granted within the next three years leave to Europe, instead of receiving my full pay leave salary at 4s, to the dollar, equal, at the rate of £480 per annum, I should only receive at the rate of £380 per annum, and my half pay would be at the rate of £180 per annum instead of £240 per annum, a very considerable difference.
If, in the ordinary course of events, after five years' service, I proceeded on leave of, say, three months' full pay leave and nine months' half pay, I would then, on two years' service on my third increment, £390 per annum, have benefited to the extent
No. 103.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
MR. CHAMBERLAIN to GOVERNOR SIR F. A. SWETTENHAM.
(Sent 12.15 p.m., October 18, 1902.)
TELEGRAM.
[Answered by No. 104.]
Propose to add to my telegram of 23 July* following words "or to posts of same salary." Have you any objection?
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No. 104.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
GOVERNOR SIR F. A. SWETTENHAM to MR. CHAMBERLAIN. (Received 11.13 a.m., October 19, 1902.)
TELEGRAM.
[Acknowledged by No. 107.]
In reply to your telegram of yesterday's date.† I agree and have already recommended this rule.
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No. 105.
HONG KONG.
MR. CHAMBERLAIN to GOVERNOR SIR H. A. BLAKE.
(No. 359.)
SIR,
Downing Street, October 23, 1902. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Sir W. J. Gascoigne's despatch No. 398 of the 4th ultimo, on the subject of the scheme of sterling salaries for Hong Kong, and to inform you that I concur in the proposal that Dr. Thomson and his
‡ No. 98.
• No. 78.
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† No. 103.
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