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b. While over any particular period of years of
duty, the sterling scheme may seem to shew some small advantage, it is always at a disadvantage in the matter of pension and pay on leave; and the disadvantage is the greater the smaller the salary. This means that the disadvantages fall st such times and in such a manner as to make them most severely felt, while the advantages fall when they will hardly be noticed: and the little bene-
fit that laborious figures may perhaps be made to shew in favour of the sterling scheme during
years of duty is entirely discounted.
therefore come within the operation of G.0. 39 (5) es
published in the Hong Kong Civil Service List 1911, p. 211,
which reads
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Officers who have not accepted Sterling Salaries
"under the Sterling Salaries Scheme will continue to
"draw dollar salaries during the remainder of their
"service in Hongkong, and so far as they are con-
"cerned the salaries of all appointments to which
"they are promoted will continue to be fixed in
"dollers."
I am therefore entitled to have my salary for the remainder
of my service fixed in dollars,
mean -
This, I submit, can only
and actually has meant in the past that any post to
which a dollar officer is appointed will carry the usual
dollar salary of its class. Thus the post of Head of the
Sanitary Department was created in 1908, several years after
the sterling salaries scheme had been instituted; it was a
second class post and Mr.Messer, e dollar officer, was ep-
pointed to it on the usual dollar pay of the second class. It
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