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Registrar-General's Office.

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· First Interpreter

Second

do

$66

40

do

$106.

E. Interpreter C1.I $200.

Translator C1.I 200

C1.III 60

$460

POLICE

Third Clerk

$ 50.

Interpreter C1.II $100

Charge Room Inter-

preters 19 (01.1 $30) 670-

7(01.11$25)

175.

Charge Room Inter-

preters 26 (01.III)

$45

1170

$795.

$1270

9/81

E.

The Secretary of State wrote in Despatch No.

"

24 of 22nd. February 1881:- "As regards interpretation for

other than legal purposes, it should be remembered that

cadets are carefully educated in Chinese with the express

purpose of training a staff of officers who will be able

to dispense with the assistance of interpreters This

is all very well as regards the transaction of ordinary

There are numerous occasions on which business, but it is indispensible that his views should

be expressed in polished and correct language. Apart from

these the service of a first-class interpreter are re-

quired at public and semi-official functions and by The

Governor. I purpose that the interpreter in the R.G.0.

should be proficient in Cantonese and Mandarin.

8 Department

Sanitary