CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934 — Page 342

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were withdrawn from regular duty for the anti-Communist

section in 1931. One Constable is required for the

Traffic Department in Kowloon. Five more detectives

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are required for the Yaumati and Shanshuipo districts

which continue to spread. One Cetective is required

for Kowloon City, and two for the eastern district of

Hong Kong. One is required for Castle Peak which is

a not unimportant centre with its ferry, brickworks and

large number of bathing sheds. All these increases

are a direct result of the development and expansion

that has been going on throughout the Colony.

Frovision is made for an Assistant Superintendent for

the Anti-Piracy Guards. It is hoped to open the Remand

Home for Juveniles at the end of this or the beginning

of next year, as soon as the necessary alterations have

been made to the building which it is proposed to use

for the purpose.

The requisite staff, which may have

to be modified in the light of experience, is shewm at

the foot of page 52.

Honourable embers will no doubt recollect

that a reduction of five posts of European warders in the Prison Department was made in the 1932 Estimates

and that Government undertook to retrench five more

posts. Two of these five posts now disappear, and it is anticipated that the remaining three will have been

reduced by the end of 1933, as a result of leaving

vacancies unfilled as they occur.

The ten additional

temporary