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any of the legal poste (even those to which cadets have 8; Em proferential claim) are not now filled by Cadet officers, chiefly because few of those now in the Service have passed the necessary examinations in law, or have been called to the sur. I suggest, therefore, that the Secretary of State should be requested to Bake known at British Universities the fact that there are many postu in the Cadet Service to which officers who are called to the dar have a preferential claim, and that intending cariidates should be advised to 'eat dinners' while studying for their egree, so that they may be called to the Jar either before they leave England or during their first spell of long leave. If his is done, there would be a regular supply of cadets to fill he legal poste. I would go further and suggest that, as in the egal departments a knowledge of Chinose has been shown by past xperience not to be absolutely necessary, however desirable it may , it would be preferable (according to the requiroments of the ervice ut any given time) to arrange that the Cadets, appointed

this Colony as the result of the usual coapetitive examinations, ould from the outset be divided into two claegas one of which puld be required to learn Chines9 o at present, while the other instead of starting for Hongkong directly after appointment) kuld be stimmÅR TË K

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pass the war examinations and eat sa many dinners as possible fore starting for Hongkong, and be encouraged after arrival here study chinose under the Bonur scheme (civil ervice List for 11 page 213 eqq).

(s) The next point, to which I would draw attention, is suggestion that new posts, to be called Assistant Director of Cation and assistant Colonial Treasurer, should be created. I ld further suggest that the Jecretary of the Canitary Board be styled Assistant Head of the Sanitary Department Muition to his other title. My ronson for making this re-

endation is that the Treasury, Education and Sanitary Depart- Se are the only ones in this service which are without an Astant Head and that therefore considerable dialocation to the

istration of the Colony as a whole is caused when the hod of