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in 1901

could, with any justice, have been given the

appointment in preference to Mr Haze land.

(5)

The appointment of Secretary to the

Sanitary Board has never been held by a cadet,

and as far as I am aware, no cadet hadjeven

had fever

expressed a wish to be considered a candidate

for the post. In fact, as Mr May points out,

it was not then regarded as a post to be fill-

ed by a Cadet.

(6) Mr Hallifax was the only Hong Kong

cadet having any claims on the ground of ex-

perience to the appointment of Deputy Super-

intendent of Police. We had then been serv-

ing in the Colony for less than five years;

and it was not thought that so well-paid and

responsible an appointment could be conferred

upon him, with fairness to the claims of of-

ficers in other places, whose Government ser-

vice was longer and whose experience of police

work was greater than his. Apart from his

previous Army service, Captain Lyons had had

some