CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12] — Page 100

the current year will be ten, and has tresented that it is desirable that arrangements should be make for curshying their pinces by recruits from Angiand. In the meantime he has been authorized by the fovernor to engage termmorarily two likhs for

Each Euroscan

دست

a

vacancy falls in,

the cost of tws Sikhs being lef than that of one hurorian. Cortain

Denne recommended this in preference

to

filling

vacancies by enlistment Suropeans in the Colony, as the chass

of muen

from whom recruits would

have to be selected here

Fpinion,

are,

in his

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as a rule not to be relied on.

2.

There is no

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provision in the Estimates of this year for the cont

of recruiting and of passages to Hong Kong which

which will amount to about £50 per

head, judging

from the expenditure

occasion

3.

I beg

on the lask

beg to enclose

a

سات

Memorandum of the Captain Superinting chowing the pay and conditions of service, and ales a copy of the existing regulations as to pensions Superannuation allowance tc.-. The Commission on Phies and Prima considered that there requiations were too liberal and recommended

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