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unpassed cadet since September 1899. I am at a loss therefore
to understand why discrimination should be made in this matter against me and in favour of Mr.Wodehouse, who is neither a Probationer nor a Cadet, and whose experience is reckoned from a more recent date than mine.
My first submission is, then, that it is (if I may ven- ture to say so) inequitable that the decision to exclude Cadet Officers from the post of Deputy Superintendent of Police should be made retrospective, to the prejudice of myself and of other Cadet Officers, who were appointed to the service before the Police Probationar Scheme was instituted.
3.
That your decision is prejudicial to me is chiefly due to
the fact that ever since September 1899 I have been in a
manner earmarked for service in the Police. For other posts
those of Assistant Registrar General and Assistant Colonial
Secretary, which were never offered to me but to which my
seniority at the time would have entitled me
my claims
were never considered, and were not urged by myself: as the
understanding was so clear that I should not sever my con-
nection with the Police Force. How clear was this under-
standing is shown by the fact that when in 1902 I had, upon
the recommendation of Sir J.S.Lockhart, been appointed to
act as Registrar General and had actually held that office for
one month (May - June), I was urgently requested by Sir F.H.
May
who on 15th May 1902 assumed duty as Colonial Secretary,
having previously been Captain Superintendent of Police to
return to my post as Assistant Superintendent. Sir Henry laid
great stress on the necessity of my keeping in touch with
Police work, and on the opportunities which lay before me in
that Department, and thus induced me to forego the immediate
pecuniary advantages of acting as Registrar General.
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