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and that since then, although he has temporarily acted in other

posts, his substantive post has always included the duties and

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title of Assistant Superintendent of Police. He is, therefore,

senior as a Police Officer to Mr. Wodehouse, who was not

appointed Assistant Superintendent of Police until the 15th.

March, 1901: and neither Mr. Wodehouse nor Mr. King could have

any cause to complain of the promotion of Mr. Hallifax to be

Deputy Superintendent of Police,, since he is already their

senior. It has, moreover, for many years been recognised in

the service that Mr. Hallifax was probably marked out for pro-

-motion in the Police Department. Sir Henry May was most anxious

to retain him in the Police Force; and in fact in June, 1902,

Mr. Hallifax, who was then acting as Registrar-General, re-

-linquished his acting appointment upon Sir Henry May's earnest

request, in order to act in the less highly paid post of

Deputy Superintendent of Police for no other reason than that

his connection with the Police Force might not be severed.

The Police Probationer system was not

introduced in Hongkong till the year 1904. Prior to that date

Sir Henry Blake, himself originally a Police Officer, had in his

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