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HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Air Services.
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In regard to Air Services, we would echo the hope, expressed by the Honourable Acting Colonial Secretary, that very shortly agree- ments, on a mutually reciprocal and beneficial basis, will be arranged with the Chinese Authorities.
We approve of the proposed revival of the Flying Club.
Legal Departments.
With regard to the section in the Acting Colonial Secretary's Speech which deals with Legal Depeartments, we submit that two new Solicitors, with the necessary legal qualifications and with some years of practical experience, ought to be engaged at once from England.
One of such Officers is required to replace the late Mr. Agassiz.
The engagement of the second of such Officers is rendered neces- sary by the following facts, namely:-
(i) That one of the Officers in one of the Legal Departments, who is now home on leave, has, during his recent term of service in this Colony, been suffering from bad health, and
(ii) By the fact that the Officers in the Legal Departments are compelled to work long hours in order to keep them abreast of their tasks, and that, although they are most of them no longer young, no provision whatever is made for occasional sickness in their ranks or for any vacation leave.
Looking ahead a few years, we would add that the work of the Land Office and also of the Registry of the Supreme Court is in our opinion of such an important character, from the public point of view, that a Legal Officer should be engaged from England for the Posts of Assistants in the Land Office and the Registry respectively, to arrive out here for at least a year prior to the retirement of the present Land Officer and Registrar respectively; the laws and also conditions in this Colony being different from those at Home.
Police Department.
The proposed new appointments meet with our approval, as also the new scheme for Sub-Inspectors in the Cantonese contingent.
We regret that some more suitable name cannot be devised to indicate the "Upper Levels Police Station", as there are so many other higher levels than its proposed site on Hospital Road,
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