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prior to 1904)are justified in considering that they still

have a claim to Police posts.

6.

As regards qualification in language Mr.

Hallifax can, of course, speak Cantonese and, as a boy, he also

spoke Hindustani fluently having been born and spent his early

childhood in India. He informs me that he would be perfectly

willing to study Hindustani, as Mr. Badeley did, under the

bonus system, and I have little doubt that he would very rapidly

acquire a sufficient knowledge to enable him to pass the usual

examinations.

7.

There remains the question of pay. This

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does not, however, arise until the retirement of Captain Lyons;

for, until Mr. Badeley's full pay leave ends, Mr. Hallifax will

revert to his own full pay as District Officer, while from the

8th. July next, when Mr. Badeley's full pay leave ends, Mr.

Hallifax will draw half his own pay and half the Sterling pay

provided for the Deputy Superintendent of Police. As regards the

substantive pay of the post it is true that the salary attached

to it before the Sterling Scheme was framed was 83,600 rising to

$4,200 by 8300 triennially, that is to say, the pay of the 3rd.

class. The Sterling salary scheme came into force in 1902 and

under it the post of Deputy Superintendent of Police was raised

from 3rd. to 2nd. class. No dollar salary was, however, attached

to