CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12] — Page 443

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ONG KONG

and Class I in Hong Kong as compared with the same

classes in Ceylon and the Straits.

439

(The service in each

case is reckoned up to the time when each officer receiv-

ed a post in Class I).

CEYLON.

1.Secretary cadet)..

11

18 yrs.

Col, Secretary

(non-cadet).

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.

Col. Secretary

19 yrs. (non-cadet).

16 yr

reasurer...

13 yrs.

Treasurer,

27 yrs. Treasurer.

22 yrs

egistrar General..

15 yrs.

Auditor Gen.....

26 yrs

Auditor Gen....

2 yrs

Irzt Magistrate... 14 yrs

Govt. Agent... Central Province

54 yrs. Res. Councilior Ponang.

25 yrs

t. Superintendent Police.

12 yrs.

Principal Collector

Resident Councillor

26 yrs

of Customs.... .22 yrs. Malacca.

(in the case of Ceylon, the last two posts are

taken as the two cases in which an officer has got into

Class 1 in the shortest time.

The service of the Colonial Secretary, Straits,

is reckoned up to the time when he became Auditor General

of Ceylon).

These results are sufficiently startling,

think. If we had acceded to the recommendations to

appoint cadets in the case of the appointments of which this memorial complains, we could have produced something

equally