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to appoint Cadets to posts whose occupants have actually
to perform Police duties.
I was myself rather in favour of cutting out
the Captain Superintendent also and Sir F. Vas much
more in favour of doing so but Sir H. ay (himself a former Captain Superintendent) pleaded so earnestly for its retention that we compromised by agreeing that
Cadets should not be ruled out but that it should no
longer be a purely Cudet post.
This is much more of
an office post than the Deputy Superintendentship
and a man needs no very intimate practical knowledge
of police work to fill it so & Cadet can occupy it very
well.
Either it should be left in the Cadet classi-
fication but marked us not confined to Cadets or it
should be taken out but ear-marked as a post for which
Cadets are eligible. I prefer the latter course. In
either case the salaries of these three Police posts should be respectively those of Classes I, II und III
of the Cadet service.
The only remaining point that occurs to me
is the question of the Colonial Secretary's salary
which is now $1600. I did not care to discuss this in Sir ". May's presence and unfortunately I forgot to
do so afterwards.
On the whole, I do not think that the duty pay system can well be applied to this post.
The pensionable salary ought not to be less
than
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