CO129-511-12 Staff list for Hong Kong- approval for staff increase in Colonial Secretary's Office 15-6-1928 - 15-6-1928 — Page 4

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Drafting Clerk 2,400

(b) Under Hoad No.3, Senior Clerical and

Accounting Staff, (sce Apendix I of the practed Estimates).

Class II

Class III

Probationer

1

2

1

Total

4

(c) Under Head No.4, Junior Clerical Service,

(Appendix II ).

PE26167 (in cine Preporal has been approved

Class III

Class V

Class VI

Special Class

Total

Clerks

1

5

6

2

14.

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It will be convenient to consider these

three groups separately.

As regards the staff for which provision is

made under Head No.5, I would refer you to my confidential

despatch of 26th May, 1928, in which I have recommended

the appointment of Mr. Davies to the post of Chief

Clerk, rendered vacant by the departure of

Mr. Bullock.

The post of Confidential Assistant and

Stenographer is held by Miss Thornhill who was

appointed in 1926. Miss Thornhill has proved herself

a most reliable and capable officer and has rendered

very valuable services in the difficult period

following the departure of Mr. Bullock. Her time is

now fully taken up by her duties as Confidential

Assistant and she is no longer available for

stenographic work except when special skill or

secrecy is required. In recognition of the very

satisfactory way in which she performs the more

responsible