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officers similarly situated on the oocasion of the last

revision.

On the other hand the views expressed by the

Committee in paragraph 115 of their deport appear to me to

carry much weight and to deserve careful consideration. I

should therefore be obliged if in replying to this despatch

you would desl fully with this aspect of the matter.

7.

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I have endoavoured in the preceding paragraphs to

indicate the main issues which arise on the Committee'a

Report in relation to Hong Kong: . Other points will no

doubt occur to you in the course of your examination of the

Report, but I do not at this stage wish to trouble you

with the proposala regarding transfer arrangements which

will form the subject of a separate despatch. With this

exception, I have now to request you to furnish me with

your observations on the Report generally, snd in particular

with your views on the question of adopting the committee's

suggestions in so far as they involve variations in the

existing rules and practice in Hong Kong. In so doing,

I would invite you particularly to bear in mind the

circumstances in which the Committee was appointed and the

special advantages which they enjoyed in considering the

questions referred to them. In the first place one of the

main purposes of their deliberations was to ascertsin

whether it was possible to devise & scheme not only for

simplifying the various leave and psasage systems which in

course of time have grown up in different Dependencies, but

also for introducing a resl measure of unification in the

principles and practice as regarda leave and passage

privileges for members of u.ified services and officers of

corresponding status throughout the Colonial Service.

Secondly,