CO129-534-3 Report of Retrenchment Commission 4-5-1931 - 19-2-1932 — Page 96

SECRETARIAT FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS.

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The duties performed by the staff of this

department are multifarious, extending as they do from

liaison work between the Government and the Chinese

community to inspection of factories. It is evident

that work of the latter description, in fact all

social welfare work, will increase in the near future.

It is right that Hong Kong should progress in this

direction; moreover, there is the League of Nations

with its various committees and missions continually

urging that more be done. It is probable that the

staff will tend to grow larger rather than smaller.

There is however one small reduction that should be

made, and that is the post of the European Police

Sergeant attached to the Secretariat for Chinese

Affairs for inspection of boarding houses. That work

could be adequately performed by the ordinary staff of

the department.

2.

A system of voluntary censorship accompanied by

a bond or cash deposit, might be substituted for the

present form of censorship control, in the case of the

larger and more responsible Chinese newspapers, A

reduction in the censorship staff could then be affected.

Payment of compensation for fung shui' should

3.

be discontinued.

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