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submit, has been duly carried out up to the present time as regards passages; and to withdraw at this late
date this privilege of which Mr. Bradley has had the
benefit on first appointment, and on leave of absence, appears to me to be a moral breach of contract with Mr.
Bradley, as well as a renunciation of the underlying
intention of the principles contained in the Colonial
Audit Committee Report. I find it difficult to appreciate
the Colonial Secretary's reply that the ne" regulation
as it affects Mr. Bradley's passate implies no decision
as to the status of the officer: in the view of the
Hong Kong Government this may be so, but I trust that
I shall not be considered warped or cynical when I express my belief that even in these democratic times, by the many the opposing view would be held. memory does not deceive me, sometime, I think about 1924,
this Government made representations to the Secretary
If my
of State that cadet officers should not on first
appointment be required to travel second class, and
reasons were given as to the undesirability of the ir
having to travel with subordinate officers.
If I am
correct I submit that similar reasons apply equally
to an Assistant Auditor. The duties of an Assistant
Auditor are so varied that they may require him to check
the tickets held by the Sanitary Inspector in charge
of a Slaughter House, or the revenue collected by the
police officer in charge of an outlying Police Station,
and so on.
If the new ruling was ¿eneral or had been
initiated on account of great financial stress, I am
sure that there would be a general acquiescence therein,
but I submit that such is not the case, for the new
passage regulations do not appear to cut down the number
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