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warrants it the signatories to the memorial
will, in the event of vacancies occurring in
the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay
States, be considered as far as possible in
making the appointments.
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It will no doubt be replied, however,
that the majority of the appointments of which
the cadets complain were not made by transfer-
ring officers from the Malay Peninsula. This
is true; but before discussing the general
claims of cadets to be preferred to members of
the Government Service of Hong Kong who were
not appointed as cadets, I propose to go in
detail into the very diverse circumstances
under which these appointments were made.
(1) The appointment of Assistant Post-
master General had been held by Mr G.S.Northcote
who was not a cadet officer. On his retire-
ment, the Officer Administering the Government
urged that it was desirable that a candidate
experienced in postal matters should be select-
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