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or two, and we have to look ahead in filling the ranks

of this cadre.

In the past a Cadet has not been

available for duty until he has studied Chinese for two

years; for the future the new unification scheme of the

Colonial services requires him to take a course of one

year's study at Home before coming out.

e have not

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been able to fall completely into line at once, and have

asked for one new Cadet to be sent out at once without the year's training at Home, and other two will be appointed against the eventualities of three years hence,

when they will be ready for duty. The cost of the

year in England is estimated at £335, but the figure

arrived too late for inclusion in the Estimates, where

the ordinary Cadet salary of £450 has been entered.

On page 16 of the Estimates appear two Class II posts of the Senior Clericial & Accounting Staff on a

dollar salary. There are two more such posts at the

foot of page 18 and one each on pages 45 and 46.

This represents the first step in an experiment directed

to the substitution of local for European staff in some

of the posts of responsibility and control, now

assigned to the Senior branch of the clerical service. There are at present forty-one of these posts, but the

reduced establishment of the branch authorized in the

1932 Estimates is only forty-nine officers, of whom all

but three are non-local and require long leave at

intervals of four years. Consequently during the

current