CO129-504-17 Inducements to officers to study for the Bar 13-4-1927 - 10-10-1927 — Page 7

No 187.

Sir,

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GOVERNMENT

HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 13th April, 1927.

50247/20

Ausd 310

10 OCT 1927

With reference to my predecessor's despatch

No.258 dated 9th August, 1920, concerning the payment

of bonuses to officers of this Government who are

successful in passing the examinations for the English

Bar, I have the honour to inform you that the transfer

of Mr. Ball to Ceylon and of Mr. Nihill to Iraq has

created a serious shortage of qualified legal officers

in the service of this Colony, and I have accordingly

had under consideration the question of offering further inducements to officers, more especially Cadet Officers,

to study for the Bar.

2. In this connection I would refer to your

Circular despatch of 6th August, 1926, on the subject of concessions to Colonial Government Officers "exercising judicial or magisterial functions". In this Colony as you are aware Cadet Officers with the exception of a few of the most senior do not hold any specific appointments.

Most of such officers do however in practice at some

period of their careers exercise judicial functions either as magistrates or District Officers and any Cadet

who had been called to the Bar would at all times be

given preference for the former class of post.

I should

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,

&c.,

&C..

&c.

therefore