CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4] — Page 15

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Incentive Council on the 30th Ultimo,

and with their concurrence I have

made some small additions to the

Pay of the most deserving of Policemen. By this of Pay

to £130

an

the

augmentation

expenditure of from £122

per

annum will be

incurred, in addition to that set

· down in the Estimates.

4. I have also taken this recasion of causing a few Chinese to be femployed in the Police of the Colony who, it is obvious, from their knowledge of the language of the country and

the habits and customs

Countrymen, would be

of

their

infinitely

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than the natives

efficient the

of India - but

few of whom can

speak. half a dozen Sentences of

Chinese.

5. In the early days of

the

Colony it was considered unadvisable

to employ chinese, inasmuch as

it was

Services

then

impossible to secure

of persons at all known.

Circumstances have

now

the

become to

a certain extent altered, and the

Population being

more settled, I have determined to employ come; and I have us doubts but that they will be

found

is

given

to answer,

to

fair trial

provided a fair

them. With this view