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Responsibility/
G.N.P. Scale
Recommended
Salary
£
Hong Kong
100...
14,400
Fiji
77
11,100
Bahamas
72
10,300
British Honduras
6.5
9,350
Gibraltar
63
9,100
W. Facific
62
8,950
Bermuda
61
8,800
Swaziland
Seychelles
Falklands
57
8,200
·38
5,500
35
5,050
St. Helena,
.25
3.600
42. Acceptance of these figures would involve a
reduction in the basic salaries of the Governors of
the Bahamas and Bermuda. But in both these cases. the local cost of living is exceptionally high.
In any case the Governor of Bermuda is on a contract which could not be reduced; and appointment has already been offered to the Governor-designate of
the Bahamas at the same rate of emoluments as his
predecessor. I therefore propose that for the time
being these be left as they are.
13. All the others involve increases, some modest
some very considerable.
!
But I believe that these are
equitable and defensible. I submit them now to you
as justified; for I believe that Colonial Governors
have been allowed to slip behind to an unfair degree.'
14. Hong Kong clearly could (and I believe readily would) increase its Governor's salary to the level
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