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than in of the service now consequent upon the transfer of Officers from Departments with which they are familiar would be avoided, But this inconvenience is in some respects less considerable at Hong Kong, where all the chief civil Officers are assembled within a small area, beyond or the Straits Settlements, where some of those who might share in the temporary advancement might be in distant provinces, and in any case it has been held that it is better to incur such inconvenience occasionally than to

423 DRAFT. to give the control of Civil Administration to a Military Officer who is necessarily unacquainted with the manifold duties of a Governor, whose previous training has not been diverted to fit him for the discharge of civil functions. I need only add that this is not the first time that this question has been raised; it has repeatedly engaged the attention of my predecessors, more especially on three occasions, namely in 1864, in 1866 and 1871, and the decision arrived at, after much consideration, was that

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than in of the service now consequent upon the transfer of Officers from Departments with which they are familiar would be avoided, But this inconvenience is in some respects less considerable at Hong Kong, where all the chief civil Officers are assembled within a small area, beyond or the Straits Settlements, where some of those who might share in the temporary advancement might be in distant provinces, and in any case it has been held that it is better to incur such inconvenience occasionally than to 423 DRAFT. to give the control of Civil Administration to a Military Officer who is necessarily unacquainted with the manifold duties of a Governor, whose previous training has not been diverted to fit him for the discharge of civil functions. I need only add that this is not the first time that this question has been raised; it has repeatedly engaged the attention of my predecessors, more especially on three occasions, namely in 1864, in 1866 and 1871, and the decision arrived at, after much consideration, was that
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13. * than in of the service now consequent upon the transfer of Officers from Departments with which they are in familar would be avoided, But this inconvenience is some respects less considerable at Hong Kong, where all the chief bivil Officers are assembled within a small area, beylon or the Straits Settlements, where some of those who might share in the temporary advance. - ment might be in distant provinces, and in any case it has been held that it is better to incur such incon venience occasionally than to * 423 DRAFT. to give the control of Civil Administration to a Officer Military Aan who is necessarily un- = acquainted with the manifold and duties of a Governor, whose previous training has not Exped been diverted to fit him for such as the discharge of civil functions. I need only add that this is not the first time that this question has been raised; it has repeatedly engaged the attention of my predecessors, more especially on three occasions. namely in 1864, in 1866 and 1871, and the decision arrived at, after much consideration, was that
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13.

*

than in

of the service now consequent

upon the transfer of Officers from

Departments with which they

are

in

familar would be avoided,

But this inconvenience

is

some respects less considerable

at Hong Kong, where all the chief

bivil Officers

are assembled

within a small area,

beylon

or the Straits Settlements,

where some of those who might

share in the temporary advance.

- ment might be in distant

provinces, and in

any case

it has been held that it is

better to incur such incon

venience occasionally than

to

*

423

DRAFT.

to give the control of Civil

Administration to a

Officer

Military

Aan who is necessarily un-

=

acquainted with the manifold

and

duties of a Governor, whose

previous training has not

Exped

been diverted to fit him for

such as

the discharge of civil functions.

I need only add that this is

not the first time that this

question has been raised; it

has repeatedly engaged

the

attention of my predecessors,

more

especially

on

three occasions.

namely in 1864, in 1866 and 1871,

and the decision arrived at,

after much consideration,

was

that

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