CO129-607-5 Police Department- Indian Section 8-1-1946 - 15-9-1947 — Page 144

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Treasury Reference. $.52892/5

مراسم

Dear Howitt,

RECISE RED

حميل

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TREASURY CHAMBERS,

18

GREAT GEORGE STREET,

LONDON, S.W.1.

1st May, 1946.

(Aus by 25)

Your letter of 23rd April about the pay of the Chinese rank and file of the Hong Kong Police Force.

for:-

the

I gather that you have under consideration proposals (a) Increased pay and increased numbers for Chinese section (b) Reduced numbers, with a possible but uncertain

modification of pay for the Indian Section.

The only certain element in the situation is the proposal

C. R. Howitt, Esq.,

Colonial Office.

/for