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throughout the service, to be gradually
introduced as opportunity arises
through the occurrence of vacancies " or
or offerwise. Ie
praming
such a
scheme I shall be glad if you " will consider the question whether
a scale of incremental salaries might
ht not be fixed' in the case "certain posts so as to obvrate the
of
" necessity of giving personal allowances, " as has so often been done in Hong-
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Kong
several
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effect in the case of officers the
whose work is so entirely
nature of
different as the First Clerk in the
Treasury
and the First Cleak in the
Observatory
or the Sanitary Department. Rather, I submit, would it be
advisable to divide the service into classes for the purpose of pay,
and
then to decide to which class each
cer should
officer
3.
for
years
without receiving.
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to officers who have served
promotion.
2.
There can be no doubt
that the classification of salaries and the adoption of a scale of incremental salaries is highly desirable but I fail to see the advisability of paying all officers of each denounciation the
same s
salary. It would obviously. be impossible to carry
this into
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not (in tende)
Endem
belong.
Reference to the late Mr. Lister's letter Nr 18 of 18th March 1885, will show that, at that time, Portuguese Clerks in Banks and Mercantile Houses
drew after tex
years service from $100 to $200 and before that perioa
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from $20 to $100. From
randum
L a
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Meno.
by
recently drawn up beg Mr. May, as Honorary secretary to the Board of Examiners, it will be seen
that the
Portuguese
of pay for -
n vain
Clerks in Mercantile -
effect
Firms