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No.
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Government House,
Hongkong, 85th July, 1902.
Gue
244 B
29153
Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 186 of the 20th of June, and to transmit to you a nominal list of the Clerks in the Colonial Secretary's Office, showing their present scales of salary and how it is ultimately proposed to bring them within the general classification scheme.
2. The question of arranging the Staff of the Colonial Secretary's Office according to the classification scheme was very carefully considered by Sir Henry Blake before he wrote his Despatch No. 252 of the 10th of July, 1901, and it was not found possible without unduly increasing salaries to apply the scheme to that Office at that time. Nor was it considered desirable to increase the salaries of the Clerks concerned merely to bring them within the classification scheme, but to effect the necessary change gradually, as salaries reached the scales prescribed for the various classes, as explained in paragraphs 18 and 14 of the Despatch last referred to.
3. I may add that, as stated in the 9th paragraph of his Despatch No. 252 of the 10th July, 1901, Sir Henry Blake proposed not to appoint any permanent clerk to ...
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P., &C...
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Į
3
328.
No.
Hongkong.
C.O.
90
15
28 MG C
Government House,
Hongkong, 85th July, 1902.
Gue
244 B
29153
Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 186 of the 20th of June, and to transmit to you a nominal list of the Clerks in the Colonial Secretary's Office, showing their present scales of salary and how it is ultimately proposed to bring them within the general classification scheme.
2. The question of arranging the Staff of the Colonial Secretary's Office according to the classification scheme was very carefully considered by Sir Henry Blake before he wrote his Despatch No. 252 of the 10th of July, 1901, and it was not found possible without unduly increasing salaries to apply the scheme to that Office at that time. Nor was it considered desirable to increase the salaries of the Clerks concerned merely to bring them within the classification scheme, but to effect the necessary change gradually, as salaries reached the scales prescribed for the various classes, as explained in paragraphs 18 and 14 of the Despatch last referred to.
3. I may add that, as stated in the 9th paragraph of his Despatch No. 252 of the 10th July, 1901, Sir Henry Blake proposed not to appoint any permanent clerk to...
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
&C...
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