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Malay States. Nor have I any reason to sup-

pose that the prospects of passed and unpassed

cadets in either place obtaining substantive

appointments at an early date is better or

worse than that of cadets in Hong Kong.

15. 16.

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I think that the rapidity with which

cadet officers have risen in the Hong Kong

Service dvd in the past has perhaps given

recently-appointed cadets a wrong impression

Prospects of

as to their plaims to speedy promotion. Offi-

cers of the Hong Kong service possibly do not

thes realise how exceptionally rapid/promotion has

rapid/promo

been.

The following table shows roughly the

number of years that have elapsed between the

appointment to their respective Colonies of

Officers now holding the highest positions in

Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements and Ceylon,

and their first substantive appointments to

Class I posts:-