CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12] — Page 367

4.

5

364

lien

case

of passage of Chinese.

in the

(4) Raising the pay of

2nd Class Chinese Water

...

Police by 50 cents a month.

With regard to the

3.

first.

am

recommendation I confident that the proposed increase in the length of service would not militate against obtaining as good a class of recruits for the Indian Force as heretofore, for I

have

have good ground for believing

that there would be

no

difficulty in recruiting the Force from the pick of the Kongkong Regiment and Asiatic artille

of

The

men

those regiments have to serve 21 years for much

lower Pensions than

accorded to the Indian Police, and it is believed that many of them would leave the service after their -first period of engagement,

and