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GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

HONGKONG. 9th. June, 1914.

With reference to Mr. Chamberlain's Despatch

No. 427 of the 19th. December, 1901, I have the honour to report

on the unsatisfactory position of affairs in the Interpretation

Sub-department and to submit particulars of a proposed scheme of

re-organization.

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The existing establishment shews 61 Inter- -preters' Posts in the Public Service, distributed as follows:- 1 in the Higher Grade, and 4, 2, 6, 1, 33, and 14 in Grades I, II, III, IV, V, and VI, respectively. This uneven distribution is explained by the large number of V Grade Interpreters attached to the Police and Sanitary Departments where officers of limited qualifications suffice, whereas the number of highly trained officers required by the Public Service is comparatively small.

Heretofore Interpretation Posts have been set aside in a separate Sub-department independent of the clerical service and governed by the Regulations set out in General Order No. 47 a copy of which is enclosed for reference. Candidates for the posts are selected from various schools in the Colony, and receive prior to entering Grade VI a somewhat expensive training at Government expense. Their subsequent promotion is limited to the Sub-department. Advancement to Grade V is therefore reasonably rapid but further promotion is necessarily slow in consequence of the dearth of Higher Grade appointments. As a result many of the more

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LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,

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