CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2] — Page 39

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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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