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and no advantage would be served by suggesting that

she should.

There were no criticisms of remark by the

Unofficials on the Budget second reading. The

usual complaint of the cost of sterling salaries

and pensions revealed no new grounds for

reasonable complaint of extravagance and in fact

an experimental replacement of certain British

Subordinate police personnel by Chinese was mentioned

with approval.

The Colonial Government has undertaken to

look into the conditions in the new Stanley Prison

which are alleged to be insufficiently "deterrent"

and to the possible advantages in a reorganisation

of the Water Department of the Public Works Department.

The latter may be a useful development, but the former is more suspicious. The excessive prominence

in the police courts of the offence of hawking

without a license was criticised, as being a matter

in which the police might be better employed otherwise

to which the chronic congestion of

and the

A

extenbutable

ed prison accommodation might be

relieved, also resulted in an undertaking by

Government to have the question examined.

have useful and desirable results.

It may

?Telegraph as proposed and follow up with

a despatch on the lines suggested by Mr. Rogers

and then circulate the file for C.S.D. and

?

Dr. O'Brien to see the passages mentioned in his

minute.

Su Gent.

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