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expected to be almost doubled with the recently increased fees.

Fees in respect of bankruptcy proceedings reached the then

highest total of $7837 in 1926, a year of many business failures.

For the first three months only of this year the figure was

$8,892. These figures are mentioned not as an excuse for

retaining the post of Official Receiver on the grounds that it

is a means of obtaining more revenue, but to show that unless

there is this substantive post, bankruptcy work is bound to be neglected to the inconvenience of the community. It is

properly work for which a Government is expected to provide.

The position will however be reviewed on the retirement of the

present holder.

MAGISTRACIES:

Government concurs in this recommendation.

POLICE DEPARTMENT:

Paragraph 2. Government is not prepared to accept this

recommendation at the present time. At most it can undertake

to consider the matter further when retirements take place. In view of the present disturbed state of South China and of the

activities of communistic agents it would be unwise to effect

any reduction in the executive of the Police Force.

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Government prefers the proposition

put forward by the Chairman to that of the Unofficial Members. The Inspector General of Police has gone carefully into the Question as to how far section sergeants can be replaced, or

rather reduced, as a result of the use of motor cycles. He finds that ten only can be so reduced.

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