CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895 — Page 386

1 Service of Hongtong and the

Straits Settlements. I consider

that anba exceptional On the complacy

Circumstances

itists I confider that it

May be

as an

zule

ordinary preferable to select the colonial Secretary from without than

from within the colony. I -4. I gather that it is not

wholly

your

intention wholly to

Combine the two deportments,

but rather to retain them

as far sipporate branchial

If the pal·lic service, hamix

cafe

in the

Hompiling as other plonies

I think I

Would

say

this

is CPE.

I kommit it is a drittfel.

a aggualte perpentira, wend What does tofure.

is sufficient E

Ifficers during in the will of

Comme le linthe 4h Cathard M. I bound an

For the present, at any

rake

Mi

common head and I shall be glad to know thatted or

the

-5 Martious Jaffare of

proposed abolition on racancy- of the appointment of Chief Cleak in the Colonial Secretary': Office and of that of

Not this impression is posse.

lithis

orums,

clerts of the Councils, and

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approve

the other recommendations which,

have been made in the direction

of

(the Colonial Secretary's

retrenchment in that office

and that of the registrar general,

So far as you have expressed

Concurrence was in them in

your despatch.

19

agree that the appointment of assistant Registrar General

must be retained, but I do

not

of

agree

that the salar.

Salary

the assistant colmial

Seene tary

should be raised as

high as you suggest and I

prefer

the scale which the

committee recommend Liz

riz

$.3600. p.a. rising by

every

increments of $300 two years to #4800, the holder to discharge

of the appointment

the duties