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for the Palestine Exa nination Service where, although Navy votes pay the personnel according to their Naval rank in the first place, this amount is recovered from the Civil Government which also has to make up the difference, if any, between Naval pay and civil pay. In effect, therefore, in Palestine the Civil Government is

paying the cost of the Examination Service whereas in Hong Kong the Admiralty is paying for it.