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CONFIDENTIAL.
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12 JUL 01
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG. 17th May, 1920.
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My Lord,
With reference to the question of the salaries of Police Officers, which is dealt with in paragraph 9 of Your Lordship's confidential despatch of the 20th March, 1920, I have the honour to submit for your instructions the case of the officers who are now in the service.
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Under the scheme which has been approved an officer commences upon a salary of £325 and he reaches £1,100 after twenty-five years' service. This means that the probationer, who is twenty or twenty-one years of age when he comes out to the Colony, will reach his maximum at the age of. forty-five or forty-six; and, having regard to the fact that the Police Officer has free quarters, I consider that the emoluments proposed are sufficient to attract a suitable type of man.
But the new scale requires some modification before it can be applied to the present Police Officers, who have had hitherto somewhat exceptionally favourable treatment.
In the year 1901 the post of Deputy Superin- tendent carried a salary which corresponded to the salary of a Class III cadet appointment, the salary of an Assistant Superintendent being considerably lower. Under the sterling salaries scheme of 1902 these Police posts were put in Cadet Classes II and III respectively, and they were ear-marked as cadet appointments. In 1910 Sir F. Lugard, in his despatch
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6016/10 No.148 of the 29th April, 1910, recommended a considerable
increase in the cadet salaries in Classes II and III, but he
RIGHT HONOURABLE
VISCOUNT MILNER, G.C.B.,
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