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of the temporary appointment of Mr. J. R. Wood as Assistant

Land Officer for the Southern District of the New Territo-

-ries on a non-incremental salary of $3,600, I have the

honour to refer Your Lordship to paragraph 7 of Sir

Matthew Nathan's Despatch No. 52 of the 6th. March, 1905,

in which it is anticipated that this additional Assistant

Land Officer will be permanently required. The Land

Officer now reports that he sees no chance of being able

to dispense with an Assistant Land Officer for the

Southern District of the New Territories, and recommends

that the appointment should be made permanent at the same

salary as that of the Assistant Land Officer of the North-

-ern District. In this opinion I concur and I would

further recommend that Mr. Wood and Mr. Messer should draw

their first increment as from the 30th. of next August.

6.

No Cadets on sterling salaries

are immediately affected, for Mr. Wood and Mr. Messer have

declined to accept the sterling salary scheme, as has also

Mr. Ro83,

who was recommended in Mr. May's Dospatch of the

15th. June, 1907, for the vacancy created by Mr. Messer's

promotion to be Head of the Sanitary Department. Mr. May's

recommendations were endorsed in ry Despatch of the 8th.

November,

1907, and have been approved in Lord Elgin's telegram