Enc. 21
His present salary was $25. Say that as Mr. Hung Kam Wing was transferred from a post (5th Clerk in Harbour Dept) to another post with a rise of pay, without receiving any increase from $864 to $1472, Lord K. considers that he may be given a similar increase notwithstanding the fact that his present salary was raised previously. It might either be given as an allowance to him, or added to the pay proper of the post. If the latter course is taken, Lord K. considers that it will not raise it unduly or disproportionately to the pay of the First Interpreter, who after all appears to perform the same duties as the 2nd.
Enc. 22. Say that this Officer formerly drew $1440 and Quarters, and now draws only $1920. The $480 may fairly be regarded as the value of the Quarters. He may therefore receive an increase not greatly in excess of that granted to other Clerks hitherto drawing $1440.
Proposed increase should, I think, be 20%. He is hardly of the class for whom the 35% increase was intended; the Police force generally getting less than the other departments; similarly, the 2nd Clerk, Mr. Madly, and the 3rd & 4th Clerks in this Department should perhaps get a similar increase (vide Enc. 24, and remarks on p. 4 regarding the rates sanctioned in 10961/81).
Enc. 24. In 1881.
As to Enc. 26, first part relating to Pensions. Point out that the argument proceeds on misapprehensions regarding pensions existing under the Municipal Board. The final pay (and not the average pay of the last 3 years) has been retained in the same office, and therefore the supposed difficulty will not arise.
Besides the above cases dealt with in the order of their mention in this despatch, the following require notice:
(2) The Clerk to the Puisne Judge. This office came into existence after 1875, in 1881, when its present pay was fixed (21144/81). It was given a 35% increase in the same way as the 1st Clerk (or Chief Justice's Clerk). I think it has been rightly done. Let it stand.
Similarly, let the 20% increase to Clerk to Registrar, Mr. Salustian Santos, stand. He was fixed in the present rate in 21145/81.