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.287233 Despatch No. 327 of 1st. July, 1903, recommended that "no such

rigid line of separation should be drawn between the Police

Cadet and the original Cadet Service as would make it im-

-possible, in special cases, to transfer an Officer from one

branch of the service to another"; while Mr. Lyttelton, when

me 10916/04 replying in Despatch No. 107 of the 8th. April, 1904, which

introduced the Police Probationer System, wrote:- "I have not

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thought it desirable to adopt the suggestion made in Sir Henry

Blake's Despatch No. 327 of the 1st. July last as to the inter-

-changeability of Officers of the Police Service and Cadet

Service as I do not think that Officers appointed Police Pro-

-bationers should have any claim to appointment in the Cadet

Service; but, as indicated in the last paragraph of the

enclosed Notification, Cadet Officers may still be appointed,

if thought fit, to posts in the Police Department". The para-

-graph of the Notification in question reads "moreover some of

the posts included in these classes will not be exclusively

confined to Officers originally appointed as Probationers"; and

this paragraph remains unchanged in the last issue of the

134297/ Notification forwarded in your Despatch No. 5 of 5th. January

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any Bufallast. It is clear, therefore, that although Probationers have

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no claim to Cadet Posts, Cadets (especially those appointed

prior