*Not printed.
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Paragraphs 58-60. Secretariat for Chinese Affairs.
Paragraph 58.-As mentioned above under Cadet Service, the post of Secretary for Chinese Affairs is now a staff appointment with the maximum (£1,500) of the First Class scale as salary (fixed). In order to maintain this relative position the post should carry a revised salary of £1,800 per annum. The present holder Mr. Hal- lifax, should retain his Personal Allowance of £300 per annum.
Paragraphs 66-70. District Officers North & South.
Paragraph 67.-It is agreed that there should be a single establishment of Land Bailiffs with a single salary scale for District Offices and Public Works Department. A recommendation for the improvement of the prospects of officers in this cadre is made under the latter department (paragraph 153).
Paragraphs 71-75. Post Office.
For the newly created post of Inspector of Postmen a revised salary of £260 to £430 by five annual increments of £10, three of £20 and four of £15 is recommend- ed, with an efficiency bar at £550. This scale represents an amalgamation of the scales recommended for 2nd and 1st class Sanitary Inspectors (paragraph 140). Present salary is £220-£360.
Paragraphs 82-92. Harbour Department.
The Harbour Master has made very strong representations as to the inadequacy of the salaries awarded to certain sections of his European staff, more especially the Marine Surveyors, Chief Boarding Officer, Chief Junk Inspector and Boarding Offi- cers. As, however, all the considerations urged by and on behalf of all these officers were before the Commissioners the Government finds itself unable to recommend any departure from the Report.
A petition from the Marine Surveyor against this decision is annexed.* It should be explained that General Order No. 12 referred to in this petition was issued with a view to preventing public funds from being saddled with pensions after com- paratively brief service on the part of the employee, and departure therefrom does not necessarily imply any exceptional value in the officer in whose favour it is made.
Paragraphs 101-105. Supreme Court
Paragraph 104.-The second Bailiff is a local man and received, on promotion to this post, a dollar salary of $3,000-$100-$3,600. The Commission was not aware of this arrangement, the salary of the post being still shewn in Sterling in the Esti- mates for 1929. It is recommended that this officer's revised salary be on the scale of $3,700 by $150 annually to $4,300.
The report contains no recommendation for the salaries of the Bailiffs' watch- · men and Head Watchman; but it has been ascertained that $192 to $240 and $312 to $360 in each case by $12 triennially were intended for these officers respectively.
Paragraph 110. Magistracy, Hong Kong.
The question of the First Clerk is dealt with under paragraph 47 supra.
Paragraphs 112-118. Police Force.
Paragraph 112.-Although the Commissioners were informed by the Head of the Police Department of Government's proposals for re-naming and redistributing the senior staff of the Force, their report contains no inention of the scheme, presum- ably because it was not then definitely in being. It is now in force and provision must therefore be made for the Deputy Inspector General. A fixed salary of £1,400 per annum is recommended, the Inspector General's scale being at the same time altered to £1,450 to £1,600 by annual increments of £50.
Subsequently to the issue of the Report a new post of Assistant Storekeeper has been created in the Police Department and filled by a police officer who was on temporary pension as a result of wounds received on duty. The salary scale selected