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Post Office.

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With regard to the salaries proposed for

the Superintendent, Money Order Office, Accountant, General Post Office, Superintendent of Mails, and Superintendent of Registration Branch, General Post Office, I should prefer to make the minimum salary of the two former posts £500. The Post Office has always been, and probably always will be, to

some extent self-contained. The work is of such a nature that

the efficiency acquired would probably be of little use in another branch of the service, and it is, therefore, desir- -able to aim at having as few changes as possible 'in the

permanent holders of posts.

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Imports and Exports Department.

In this Department also it is desirable

to maintain continuity in the offices not open to Cadet

Officers, and I would increase the salary proposed for the

Supervisor and Accountant by making it £450 to £650 by annual

increments of £10. The post of Office Assistant should no

longer be required if a Cadet is appointed to the Department,

as recommended in paragraph 16 of my Confidential Despatch of the 15th. April.

As regards the Revenue Officers I consider

that with the higher salaries proposed for the Police Force

it will no longer be desirable or necessary to recruit from

that force. The great temptations to which Officers of the

preventive service are exposed of yielding to corrupt

practices makes it of the first importance that a good stamp

of man should be obtained for the European branch. I consider

that it would be well to aim at having a few men of experience

who, while thoroughly efficient, would also maintain the

credit of the service, and with this object in view I would

make the prospects such as to attract junior officers of the

Customs

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