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figure by a number of officers, who are due for home leave, not applying for it, or being delayed twelve months or more,
Faragraph 2. At the time the Retrenchment Commissi on was sitting two locally appointed officers were dismissed; this evidently influenced the Commissioners when they were writing their report. Government is well satisfied with the results it has obtained from locally recruited European clerical staff, particularly has this been the case with the Probationer class, young men of under 20 years of age, many of them sons of Government servants. Moreover it is an exceedin ly cheap method of recruitment. A thoroughly trained man will not come out from England except at a comparatively high salary; in addition to which there is, as the Commissioners remark, the cost of his pasaage or passages (if he is married), and if he is unsatisfactory return passages home have to be provided. In the case of the two locally appointed officers who were dismissed, Government had no such liability.
Paragraph 3. The number of stenographers has been reduced to eleven, which includes a special new post in the Police Department which has recently been created. Leaving this out of account there is an actual reduction of six out of sixteen
posts.
The question of sharing stenographers by departments has been considered, but it is aly practicable to a very limited extent. The possibility of employing Chinese lady stenographers is still being explored.
JUNTOR CLERICAL SERVICE
A bald recommendation for a 20% reduction without any
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