CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4] — Page 527

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Hongkong, 26th. April, 1911.

I have the honour to acknowledge

receipt of your Despatch No. 75 of 9th. March, 1911, relative

to the Sterling Salary of certain Cadet Appointments. I shall

address you in regard to this general subject, as soon as I

have in accordance with your instructions ascertained the

attitude of the Legislative Council on the one hand and of the

Cadets on the other to the proposals.

2.

In regard however to paragraph 8 of

your Despatch, I desire to point out that although it is well

understood that since the introduction of the Police Pro-

--bationer System Cadets have no longer any preferential clair

to Police Appointments, it has, I believe, always been admitted

that Cadets who entered the Service prior to that date have

not forfeited the claim to Police Appointments which may be

considered to have formed part of the inducements of the

Hongkong Service at the time they joined it. This view has

been frequently expressed to me by Sir Henry May and was if

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E RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,

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