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of the Senior Masters might be carried up to a maximum salary of £480 per annum and those of the Junior Masters to a maximum of £360 per annum rising to £480 by triennial increments of salary to a maximum of £480 for a year. The scale should be applied to the Head of Kowloon School. James would then be placed on a scale of £360 with increments of £30.
The salary to be assigned to the Headmistress of Kowloon School may remain on the scale proposed in your despatch No.25 of 18th January last.
The Master of the Belilios Reformatory might be given the same salary as a Third Grade Master in the Straits Settlements, viz £225 per annum rising to £285 by two triennial increments of £30; and his Assistant should receive a salary of £150 per annum rising to £200 by two triennial increments of £25.
16. The salary proposed for the Postmaster at Shanghai seems adequate, except that I am inclined to think that the increments attached to the post should continue up to a maximum of £480 a year, in view of the desirability of retaining in the appointment an experienced postal...