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substantive post are $4,800 to $5,400 per annum with

Fxchange Compensation.

2.

I have received an application

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for the same appointment from Mr. L. A. M. Johnston, Post-

-master-General, who points out that he is the senior among

Officers originally appointed as Cadets, has had several

years' experience in the Straits in the Police Court and

as Coroner and that he has also sat as Justice of the Peace

in County Down. Mr. Johnston's official career is detailed

on pages 221 and 222 of the Civil Service List. The

are

emoluments of his present substantive post $4,800 to

$5,400 per annum with Exchange Compensation and £100 from

Imperial Funds.

3.

After full consideration I have

come to the conclusion that in spite of Mr. Johnston having

joined the Eastern Civil Service as a Cadet in the Straits

Settlements nearly two years before Mr. Gompertz,

the

latter's longer aggregate experience of judicial work and

the fact that he has gone to the trouble and expense of

being called to the Bar with a view to qualifying himself

for the judicial side of the Service, give him the greater

claim for the vacant post.

4.