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assumed to be included.

4.

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I think that the post of Assistant

Crow Solicitor should also be made a "cadet" one: the pay

fixed is that of a Third Class Cadet and the work is within

the capacity of a cadet who is specialising in law. In this

connection I invite reference to my Confidential Despatch of

this date.

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5.

I have omitted from the previous list

shown on page 191 of the Civil Service List for this year the

appointments of Captain Superintendent of Police, Deputy

Superintendent of Police and Assistant Superintendent of

Police. I note the ruling given in your Despatches Nos. 89 of

the 31st. March and 167 of the 9th. June last that Cadets are

eligible for the post of Captain Superintendent of Police but

have no preferential claim to it.

6.

I have also omitted the post of Secreta-

-ry to the Sanitary Board. The importance of this post has been

much diminished since the present list was drawn up. At that

time there was no Head of the Sanitary Department, and the

Secretary to the Board was the only Government Officer whose

whole time was devoted to the work of the Board at whose meet-

-ings the Principal Civil Medical Officer presided. Moreover

with the severance of all Building Authority's work from the

Sanitary