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HONGKONG. 3rd. January, 1917.

44316/I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Confidential Despatch of 30th. September last on the subject of salaries I had suggested for the Superintendent, the Deputy Superintendent and the Assistant Superintendent of Imports and Exports.

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I regret that I felt obliged to address you on this subject in the restricted compass of a telegram. The bare pro- -position without explanation has, I fear, led to a misapprehension which it is now my desire to remove.

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Until the taxation of alcoholic liquors was introduced the appointment of Superintendent of Imports and Exports was held by the Harbour Master without additional remuneration. The duties of the post were till the legislation referred to very light. In his Despatch No. 283 of the 5th. October, 1909, forwarding Ordi- nance No. 27 of 1909 for the collection of duties on intoxicating liquors, Sir F. Lagard recommended that Commander Beckwith, Assistant Harbour Master, should be seconded as Superintendent of Imports and Exports with a salary of £600 rising to 2720 per

annum. Subsequently on recommendations, in which Sir F. Lagard

concurred, unde in my Despatch No. 173 of 21st. May, 1910, the appointment of the Superintendent of Imports and Exports was placed

in Class III of Cadet Appointments. The department remained a sub-department of the Harbour Department.

RIGHT HONOURABLE

WALTER LONG, M.P

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