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educational service, as that of the

Medical Service would be if it were

subordinated to a Cadet Officer under

the title of Director of Medical and

Sanitary Services. In saying this

I desire to make no reflection on the

present holder of the office, but on

the occurrence of a vacancy, i think it

very desirable that the post should be

filled by an educationalist, and if

possible from the existing staff of

the department.

9. The financial prospects held

out by your Goverment do not on the

whole compare unfavourably with those

of other Colonics, but it is necessary to

record that the improvement in the

salary scales proposed in your Confiden-

tial despatch of the 15th of July 1926,

and approved in my telegram of the 27th

of November has not (as i had hoped) led

to any improvement in the situation so

far as recruitment is concerned.

In

this