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he convinced me that it was not. Everybody wants to live on the Peak and the cost of constructing houses there is very heavy, as the site has to be hewn out of the granite before the house can be built, so that existing rents are not really more than an adequate return for capital. If people would live somewhere else it would be simpler; but they won't. Indeed in present circumstances the Peak is about the only place where Europeans can live in comfort in the summer. I have great hopes that when the railway is working properly a residential suburb will be built in the

beautiful and healthy district of Taipo in the New Territory, but at present it takes an hour to get there

and trains are infrequent so that this is very much

& mutter for the future).

The financial effect of the introduction of the

new scale will be very small, as very few Cadet Officers

are yet on sterling saluries. That it means is not

that the expense will be increased but that it will not

be diminished.

As to paragraph 5, I agree with the first proposal

here, the Straits should not be asked to change their

system.

Paragraph 6 I fully agree.

It is absurd to have the District Officer ord

his assistant both in the same class and both paid

alike, although it is true that they do very much the

sume work.

Parusraph 7

I do notland did not) advocate the extension

to