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have to undergo a long period of training they will not be ready to take up their duties until the autumn of 1941 and it is necessary to make provision early for possible retirement s or transfers.
Under the Head Secretariat for Chinese Affairs will
be found provision for one Lady Assistant and three additional
These appointments are being made in
The
female inspectors. accordance with the recommendations of the Muitsai Commission and with resolutions adopted by the League of Nations Conference at Bandoeng in 1937. There is a compensating reduction of one Cadet Officer and his interpreter. reduction is, actually, more apparent than real because it has been necessary, for many years past, to deprive the Secretary for Chinese Affairs of his Third Assistant except during a few months in the winter when the return of officers from leave made it possible to spare one for the post.
Proposals for the re-organization of the Treasury will shortly be put before this Council. They involve, briefly, the transfer of the Financial Secretary to an office at the Colonial Secretariat, rid the creation of a post of Accountant General for the supervision of the Treasury work proper. I shall not attempt to go into any detail at the moment because the matter is still under discussion.
I may say however that the proposals do not involve any additional expenditure. On the contrary there will probably be a net saving.
The Air Mail payment and subsidy again appear under the Post Office. Of the suns under Subheads 2 and 3 £4,250 represents the subsidy at present payable in respect of the service from Hong Kong to Peng. The other figures represent
Hong Kong's contribution to what is called the "all-up" service under which all first class mail for destinations
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