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MR. OWEN `HUGHES' SPEECH,
of work undertaken by Mr. Shenton and those associated with him în preparing and presenting the report, The Hon. Mr. J. Owen Hughes with the various schedules I have said-Sir-Being the senior Euro-referred to, before the Committee of the Chamber and employers, but it pean unofficial member present to- day, it fails to me to present to earned for them the gratitude of Your Excellency and this Council all, and especially of those who the considered views of ourselves,
will be adversely affected should the and also of the members of the recommendations of the Commission Hong Kong General Chamber of be adopted. Many meetings have Commerce, and large employers of been held by unofficial members, labour in this Colony, on the including one meeting with repre- sentatives of the Government, Salaries Commission Report.
Will you kindly allow me, Sir, members of the Salaries Commis- first of all to refer to a letter sention, and with the Committee of to the Hon. Colonial Secretary by the Chamber of Commerce, cul- the Hon. Mr. Shenton on May 14 minating in a speech by the Hon. expressing the unanimous request of Mr. Shenton which, but for his unofficial members that he should departure on a well-earned holiday, propose two motions in connection would be delivered by him to Your with the question now before 25. Excellency add this Council to-day. Mr. Shenton wrote again on the end of this month ask Your Excel lency to accept that letter og a formal notice of motion, and that unofficial members desired that they be treated as substantive motions, at the same time, informing the Government that owing to his im-
With the knowledge and consent of all the unofficial members, n copy of the speech und schedules
waa
sent to the Hon. Colonial
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THE Undersigned have received
Instructiona
TO SELL BY
PUBLIC AUCTION,
ON
FRIDAY, JUNE 20, COMMENCING AT 2.30 PM.,
AT THEIR SALES ROOM,
DUDDELL STREET, -
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A LARGE QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
"Comprising:
Teak Dining Tables, Dining Chairs, Sideboards with Bevelled Mirrors, Dinner Waggona, Crockery, Glass Ware, Ioe Chests, Kitchen Utensils, etc., etc.
be left unrecorded. I, therefore, crave Your Excellency's permission etc., etc. and the indulgence of hon. members to quote freely from that speech, particularly as I am in full agree
I will afterwards ment with it. submit my own views, leaving the seconder of this amendment, the Hon. Mr. Mackie, and other un- official colleagues to make their own observations in support.
Teak and Iron Bedsteads, Ward-
Teak Hatstands, Chesterfield Conch Secretary, and being thus sub- mitted, it would, in my opinion, be and Armchairs, Glass Cabinets, Ceiling unfair that such an important docu- Fane, Table Fans, Gramaphones, ment, the result of many weeks Sewing Machine, Carpets, Euge pending departure for home these labour and careful thought, should Wardrobe Trunks, Ornaments, Curios, motions would be proposed by me.
As, however, the Government have adopted the present course of action, it necessitates the first of the two motions referred to being put as an amendment, and I trust Your Excellency will accept it in this form. The amendment, there- fore, is: "That in view of the far- reaching effect of the Commission ers' Report on employment general. ly, and the community as a whole, and the large expenditure of money
I have before me a difficult and involved, His Excelency the Pre- arduous task-one which I think no sident of this Council be invited to one will approach without a feeling appoint a Committee consisting of of diffidence having regard to the Government nominees, representa magnitude of the subject, and the tives of employers and employees interests involved. One has only to and others having a broad know-scan the pages of the Salaries Re- ledge of the conditions of employ port to realise that it covers almost ment in the Colony, to investigate every class of employment in the the Report of the Commissioners Colony. To be able to express an and make a report thereon for fur-authorative opinion on the emolu- ther consideration."
An Arduous Task.
robes with Bevelled Mirrors, Dressing Tables, Chests of Drawers, Chamber Stands, Mosquito Nets, Enamelled Bath, Toilet Sets, etc., etc..
...
and
A QUANTITY OF BLACK- WOOD FURNITURE.
OF VILN From THURSDAY, the 10th JUNE, 1980. "
LAMMERT BROS.,
AUCTIONEERS.
ment, which should be received by As Your Excellency is doubtless every form of service in Hong Kong, aware, the Committee of the Hong is a knowledge which I personally | TERMS ĈASH ON DELIVERY. Kong General Chamber of Com-do not possess, and I very much merce, very shortly after the report doubt whether there is any one man of the Salaries Commission was requalified." Nevertheless I think it is ceived, appointed a special sub possible to get a body of men to- committee under the chairmanship gether consisting of Government, of the Hon. Mr. Shenton to consider representatives, employers and em- the report and obtain the views ployees, who could at least do of the principal employers of this justice to those whose salaries are Colony, the others forming this rub under consideration, and at the committee being Mr. M. T. Johnson, same time effectually guard the then in charge of Messrs. Mackin- other interests and considerations non, Mackenzie & Co., and Mr. A.
which require protection, Ritchie, of Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews, with Mr.. M. F. Key an secretary.
Report Recast.
It was realized that it would be quite impossible merely to put the report as it stood before the em- players, so they, as far as they were able to, took the report to pieces, and recast it into schedules, show ing in separate columns the present position, the recommendatons of the Commissioners and the percentages of increase..
The report, the schedules in ques tion and a covering letter were then placed before the following con- cerns, for the purpose of obtaining their views:-*
(1) Messra, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.; (2) the Indo-China Stean Navigation Co., Ltd.; (3) the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd.; (4) the Hong Kong Tramway Co., Ltd.; (8) the Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd.; (8) the Hong Kong and Whampot Dock Co., Ltd.; (8) the P. & 0.) Steamahip Co., Ltd.; (0) the E. & A. Lines; (10) the Hong Kong Elec- tric Co., Ltd.; (11) Messrs. Butter feld & Swire; (19) the Taikoo Dock yard and (13); the Taikon Sugar Refinery Co., Ltd...
I have no hesitation in saying that to arrive at an equitable and fair decision, not only must the views of the Government service be heard, but the representations of any other interests in the Colony, likely to be effected, and as regards pensions, the general conditions existing, and likely to exist, in these countries where the recipient concerned is likely to retire to.
We must not be blind to the fact that any increase has to be paid for, that any advantages given must reflect on outside employment, and that the general conditions of trade
past, present and future-cell for the most careful investigation.
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Undersigned have received Instructions
TO SELL BY
PUBLIC AUCTION
אס
FRIDAY, JUNE 20,
AT 3 O'CLOCK P.M.
Ar Tazil SALES ROOM, DUDDELL STREET,
ONE BUICK, 1924 ONE OLDSMOBILE, 1924
(Recently Overhauled).
OF VIEW ON DAY or SALE.
Before proceeding further, I should like to pay a tribute to the great work of the Commissioners- who have given so much of their time to the study of this, difficult matter-they have devoted many. weeks to this important subject. The public, as a whole, and the Government in particular, must be (and without doubt are) deeply in debted to the members of the Corn TERMS-CASE OF DELIVERY. mission for their great service, and for the range of their deliberations, which has given us a comprehensive frame upon which to work, and will assist us very materially is under- standing the important problems we are called upon to solve.
LAMMERT BROS.,
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It might here be stated that the sub-committee were considerably surprised to find that none of the In reviewing this matter, we owe executives of the above concerns a duty to the Colony as a whole, had been consulted by the Commis" and we should be failing in that sioners.
duty if we attempted to represent Written statements were received ahy individual interest, or in any from all, and were found to be un-way allowed one section of the com- animous in rejecting the Commis.munity to influence us more than sioners' Report, the general con. another. Whilst we wish to do
T sensus of opinion being that the justice to the Government service, present terms of Government em- we must be careful that our recom ployment are more advantageous mendations do not cause undue in- | than similar employment outside. jury, to the public, ar cast too great It must not be assumed by this a strain on the revenues of this general statement that there are not Colony,T considered to be cases where re vision is necessary-there are, and probably many, but they must be dealt with as individual cases.
The views expressed were collated in a report which was passed to the Committee of the Chambor, who, after consideration, adopted it as the considered view of the Chamber, and the same was in January last sent to the Government.
The Commissioners were appoint. cd on October 19, 1928, and the report in question was delivered some time in the autumn of last year." I cannot give the exact date, as the report is not dated.
The terms of reference were four only -(1) The adequacy of the pre sent Government salary scales; (2) the method of conversion of such salaries, when in the Colony, and on leave; (3) the principles of acting pay, charge allowances, and overtime; (4) housing, and rent allowance,
Question of Pensions,
THE Undersigned have received
Instructions
TO SELL. BT
PUBLIC AUCTION,
ON
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25,
COMMENCING ar 11 AM.
AT No. 4, LOCHIEL TERRACE, CAMERON ROAD, KOWLOON,
A QUANTITY OF VALU- ABLE" HOUSEHOLD ·
FURNITURE.
-ON-Vraw-From TUESDAY,
It should also be stated that the Commission's Report had previously been submitted to a board appoint ed to consider labour conditions, who, by a majority, arrived at the same conclusion, as the "Hong Kong. 1 want you to hote here, that General Chamber of Commerce. although the terms of reference. That, Sir, is a brief history of the specifically refer to leave pay, no progress of the Commissioners Re- mention is made of pensions and port, through the hands of the sub-1 venture to suggest that pensiona committee, the large employers of are a matter which require separato “labour, and mambers of the Hans a consideration and sia got neres.
Kong General
heral Chamber of Comsarily bound up with the amount of salary granted when on active Becond only to the labour under- service, but are more concerned TERMS:--Uash on Delivery, taken by members of the Salaries with the general circumstances" and Commission themselves, in the tak- | conditions in the country to which ing of evidence, in the considera the recipient is likely ultimately to tion, and the final presentation of retire, A
merce.
the report itself, is the vast amount (Continued on Page 8.)
the 24TH JUNE, 1930,
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