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Government extra expenditure over a period of years. A Lance Sergeant entitled to the Free Passage privilege who marries at home should be granted a passage to the Colony for his wife. It is a feature of the Free Passage Scheme that the officers to whom the scheme applies shall not draw any half-salary for acting appointments. But as the scheme is, if my recommendation is approved, to be applied only to a small section of the Force who, if acting in any higher appointment, would be acting for Sergeants who are not in the scheme, I recommend that this condition be not attached to the grant of the privilege to the small body of Lance Sergeants. The saving by depriving them of acting pay would in any case be very small.
7. Paragraph 7. I camot recommend the grant of more than half-pay while on leave. The increase of pay which I have recommended will somewhat increase the half-pay drawn on leave. The Police, taking into account the large allowances which even with the reductions recommended in this Despatch and the privi- -leges of free quarters, fuel and light and free passages for wives and family not exceeding 4 in all, will, if the increases I recommend are granted, still be better off than Civil Servants of the same grade in other Departments.
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Paragraph 8. There is no objection to this.
Paragraph 9. The accomodation at various Police Stations is being improved as opportunity offers. It is understood that what certain members of the Force objected to was the presence of Indians in dormitories on the same floor as the dormi- -tories for Europeans at the Central Station. These dormitories
Th situated on the 4-storey of the station commanding a fine view of the harbour, constitute the best sleeping accommodation known to me in Victoria. The ventilation and lighting of the rooms would be much impaired by subdividing them if that were possible and I do not consider that any alteration in existing conditions is called for. The Indian and European dormitories are quite separate. They have been situated on one floor for a great
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