CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4] — Page 528

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I recollect aright advanced by him in our conversation with

Mr. Stubbs, and I understood that it had not been disputed.

Acting upon it I had it in mind to appoint Mr. E. R. Hallifax

to act as Deputy Superintendent of Police during the time that

Captain Lyons acts for Mr. Badeley. and in my Despatch 56 of

10th. of last February, I recommended his permanent appointment

to the post on the retirement of Captain Lyons at the end of

the year, when Mr. Badeley returns to Hongkong. I detailed in

my Despatch the very specially strong claims which Mr. Hallifax

has for the appointment, and I am of opinion that in the

interests of the Public Service it is the best appointment

which could be made, more especially in view of the efforts I

am now making to introduce effective measures for the suppress-

-ion of crime.

I trust therefore that the terms of

paragraph 8 of your Despatch do not preclude the appointment of

Mr. Hallifax, and I request your instructions in view of what I

have written, whether the Senior Police Appointments should not

remain open to Cadets who joined prior to the inauguration of

the Police Probationer System. I may add that on page 191 of

the Hongkong Civil List for 1911 an asterisk has been placed

against the appointments of Captain Superintendent of Police,

Deputy