The: achievements of the present, directional control of the Salt Administration have "thus salvaged what may be considered the most Valuable product of the past, the experience gained by its officers in the period of experimentation and exploration from 1913 to 1928, This present, control rewisxe con tributed immeasurably to the technical perfecting of the Administration in. relation to policies of salt works depot construction, control of revenue funds and accounting, simplification of routine, rigorous enforcement of civil service regula. tions, elevation of standards of personnel recruitment: in both Chinese and foreign staff, betterment of the preventive service, and finally and
suming populace, improvement of greatest imparlance to the con. quality of alimentary salt, modernsation of salt transportation and distribution facilities, and. tion of consumption. It is. impos sible to enter into the details of foregoing policies which have bee danid necelerated under. th brilliant "leadership of Dr, Soong, and energetically maintained by Dr. H. H, Kung since the incorporation of the Salt Revenue Inspectorate Service as a Department of the Ministry of Finance in the years 1928-29," The actual inpplementation of there policies is very largely due to Mr, T. C. Chu, who has enj continuous tenure' of office as Inspector since July, 1929, and who assumed duty at the moment the Service was undergoing the preli-minery process of readjustment and reorganisation, Unusual acumen in lection of and assignment of trained and experienced officers to specialised tasks, and determined insistance upon civil service obser vance ave in a few highly ex and technical appointments representing. types of talent not already available. in "the. service, have characterised Inv. Chu's administer tion," Of supreme importance, also, the conduct of w public fiscal ser: Yice has been Mr. Chu's "oot and branch' polley whereby he has not only Injected an unusual element of probity into the amination bet
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