CO129-518-6 The vacancy for Deputy Treasurer- salary- and conditions of service 2-10-1929 - 30-1-1930 — Page 5

M Ellis

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The plan for a Chief Accountant was held

up in No. 9 on 62795/29.

It was part of a scheme

for (1) Mr Messer to be replaced as Treasurer by a

trained financial Officer from outside the Hong Kong

Service (2) a Cadet Officer to be appointed Deputy

Treasurer.

This arrangement is now temporarily upset

by the decision to leave Mr Messer as Treasurer for

another year, and to appoint a trained financial

officer as Deputy Treasurer with the prospect of

succeeding M. Messer when the latter moes.

The Governor now deplores the suggestion

that Mr Messer should be succeeded by a man who is

not a member of the Hong Kong Cadet Service; in any

case he trusts that the number of Class I posts for

Cadets should not be reduced. The De falcations

Committee (The Chief Justice and Messrs Dallin and

Hazel rigg none of them Cadets) in the last pape of

their Report put on record their feeling of appre-

hension caused by the lack of any organised system

of training for Cadet Officers in financial and

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accounting matters.

The Governor mentions in his telegram

that the posts of attorney General, Captain

Superintendent of Police, and Head of the Sanitary

Department may possibly be "lost" to the Cadet

Service. He does not mention that the reservation

of the post of Director of Education to the Cadet

Service is also criticised in some quarters.

The Governor's opposition to reducing

the number of Class I Cadet posts is based on the

ground that the attractions of the Cadet Service

will