435.
be converted to a third class cadet post (£420
£540 by
£40 triennially). One Passed Cadet is required to complete
this group but is available for 6 months to act in the
Treasury and Post Office (see Table IV.)
(b).
Table II groups together the
Registrar-General's and District Officer's Departments forming
together two leave cycles. These are the two essentially
Chinese speaking departments in intimate relations with the
Chinese population and discharging more or less similar
respective in functions in the Colony and the New Territories. I desired to
group them together instead of in two separate cycles in
order that the District Officer of the New Territories may
act for the Registrar-General since a senior officer is
required for so important an office and the two Assistant
Registrars-General will usually be junior officers.
(c).
In Table III the Harbour Master is
excluded since he will never be a Cadet. I am in a separate
Despatch about to propose to you that during his absence on
leave the King's Harbour Master (if the Admiralty agree)
should act for him. A Chinese-speaking Officer would in that
case perform the non-technical duties of the Department and
supervise the Junk Traffic. Some such arrangement is
necessitated by the proposed Customs Convention with China
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