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The Appointment of a Second Mistress to the Kowloon British School, Hong Kong.
1. The Secretary of State for the Colonies requires a Second Mistress for the Kowloon British School, Hong Kong. The appointment is a new one.
2. Candidates should be holders of the Board of Education's Elementary School Teachers' Certificate, and should have satisfactorily completed a course of training in a recognised Training College. They should be capable of teaching up to the standard of the Oxford Senior Local Examination. A candidate who already has friends resident in the Colony will be preferred.
3. The salary offered, which will be not less than 1501. per annum, will be settled in consultation with the Colonial Office, regard being paid to the qualifications and experience of the teacher appointed. Half salary will be paid from the date of embarkation from England and full salary from the date of arrival in the Colony.
The currency of Hong Kong is based on the silver dollar. payments in the Colony salaries fixed in sterling are converted into dollars at a rate For purposes of fixed by the Government, and based upon the average exchange value of the dollar during the month ending on the fifteenth of the month for which salary is to be paid. At present, however, if the average exchange rate for any month exceeds 28., sterling salaries are converted at 2s. to the dollar.
4. The candidate selected will be required to be examined by the Medical Adviser to the Colonial Office, and if the result is satisfactory she will be provided with a free second-class passage to the Colony. She will be required to sign an agreement to serve the Government of the Colony for three years from the date of her arrival there, and should she leave the service before the end of that period for any reason other than mental or physical infirmity, she would be liable to be called upon to repay the cost of her passage. A free passage home will be provided at the end of the three years period if the appointment is then terminated.
5. Subject to the necessities of the service, leave of absence on half salary may be granted to members of the permanent Government Service after a period of four and a half years' resident service without any special grounds. It may be given before the expiration of that period in cases of serious indisposition or of urgent private affairs. In the absence of special grounds, the leave in such case must not exceed one-sixth of the officer's resident service; on special grounds it may exceed that period by six months. The Governor will not in any case grant leave on half salary for a period of more than nine months at a time but that period may be extended by the Secretary of State on the ground of ill-health or of urgent private affairs or for such other reasons as may appear to him to be sufficient. In exceptional cases extensions of leave without pay may be granted. At the request of any officer who may he eligible for the grant of any period of leave on half salary, the Governor may commute the whole or any portion of such leave into one-half the period of leave with full salary, provided that the total period of commuted and uncommuted leave, together with any period of vacation leave that may be granted, does not exceed ten months at a time. No officer can claim as a right to commute his leave in this manner, the decision whether commutation can or cannot be allowed being wholly within the discretion of the Governor. Officers attached to an educational institution enjoy when in the Colony the ordinary vacations of the institution to which they are attached. When taking long leave outside the Colony they may be allowed to draw full pay during the first three months of their leave unless a school vacation has immediately preceded the grant of leave, in which case full pay may be drawn during two months only. The remainder of the leave in either case is on half salary, and half pay only can be drawn during any school vacation falling within the period of an extension of leave.
6. The present rule as to superannuation is that in the case of ill-health an officer holding a pensionable appointment may be allowed to retire on a pension after ten full years' resident service; otherwise he must have attained the age of 55. For ten full
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