the salons.
and
of the scheme that all non cluical fists over $1200 a year all forts below that limit adinarily filled I the aff) of sections from thiscanty shall be fixed in sterling so that ultimately there will be a subordinate service andollar salaries and all the
officers higher forts will to held by
starting salaries. Add that is fened that the principles regulating the starting scheme and the grant of douth exchange comfensation, laid down in despes afto the Straits IFMS of which
in It is assumed copies hav. accordance with wishuctions, been transmitted to H. Kay, have not been chail understood in the
clearly Matter Coly, and that it is intended that so far as is possibl the principles regulating the skibining scheme d'exchange comfempation shes shall bridentical in all the flier. Add that th. "Haggard must be faid the
salay of the fast.
starting salar
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No.5/2.
Hongkong,
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Sir,
C. O.
51800
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£15 DFC C
Goverment House,
Hongkong, 15th. November, 1902.
I have the honour to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of your Despatch No. 318 of the 30th. of last September
and to refer you in reply to paragraph 6 of my Confidential
Despatch of the 11th. of December, 1901, in which I stated
that the Sterling Salary Scheme, forvarded under cover of
that Despatch, was designed to include all offices which would
in the ordinary course be held by Europeans appointed from
home. In other words all Officers entitled to draw Exchange
Compensation.
2.
In paragraph 7 of the same Despatch. I
enumerated certain offices in Post Office to which Sterling
Salaries were allotted because I anticipated that these
positions would in all probability be filled by European
Officers. appointed from home.
3.
From this principle I deduce in the first
instance the conclusion that an European Officer on probation
jand, therefore, under Exchange Compensation Rules not entitled
Ito Exchange Compensation, should not draw a Sterling Salary,
and secondly that while the offices referred to in the Post
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Office are held by Officers not entitled to Exchange Compensa-
tion such Officers are to be paid in dollars. The Officers who THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
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