CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4] — Page 326

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Government. By means of the diplomates of the College,

so bound, it would be easy for the Government to carry

out any schemes for the establishment of Dispensaries

that may in the future be determined upon, or to give

effect to such recommendations as those recently submit-

ted by the Sanitary Board.

To give point to this offer on the

part of the Court to bind all students primarily to the service of the Hongkong Government at low rates of salary, I may mention that there is an almost unlimited demand for these men in the Straits at higher figures; that, for instance, the Perak Goverment has a formulated scheme for their employment, whereby they rise by fixed increments to $200 a month; that the Singapore Goverment has recently offered $150 a month as an initial salary; and that the student who qualified at the same time as Ho Nai Hop, now at Tai Fo, declined to enter the service of the Hongkong Goverment, having received an offer from Singapore under which commencing at $100 he was to rise by six-monthly increments to $200 at the beginning of the third year of his engagement, with free

quarters provided.

The Court respectfully direct His Excellency's attention to the policy that has long been pursued ny the Indian Goverment in the encouragment

of medical education, which has resulted in the existence of a great body of native medical men scattered through-

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