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At this stage there should be a strict

efficiency bar. A Cadet'a salary should

then rise by £50 annually to £900, where a

skinny further bar should be placed, and then again

by increments of £50 to £1200. Above this

rate I consider that promotion should only

take place as Class I appointmente fall

vacant, and it will be convenient to

make the scale for these £1250 to £1500

by annual increments of £50. If this

rate is adopted the corresponding al-

teration will no doubt be made in rates

of salary for other Heads of Departments

whose pay is intended to correspond with

that of Class I Cadet appointments.

8.

As regards the appointments

classified as Special I approve the

rates of salary which you recommend

here and elsewhere. It will of course

be understood that as the system of

fixing salaries in sterling has been

retained the figures should be divided

by 10 and expressed in pounds sterling.

9.

I will deal next with the

question of the Police Force.

I

observe that Police probationers are to

receive the same salary as Cadete al-

though they are some years younger.

In my opinion some difference should

be made between these rates, and I am

inclined to doubt whether in any case

So young an officir as £300 is a sufficient amount even for a

Police probationer. Possibly

hay

the

Police probationer might be left at

£300 and the Cadets raised to 2325 or the

rates might be made £325 £350

respectively.

I shall be glad if you

will consider this point. I agree to

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the proposed scale for pass/probationers

subject to the insertion of efficiency

bars at suitable points in the scale,

which I would suggest might be £550 and

£800.

I agree generally with your

proposals as regards the lower ranks of

the European Police Force, and the

Indian and Chinese Police.

10. As regards the other

matters

question