C.A. 494.
The Appointment of an Assistant Master in the Education Department of Hong Kong.
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1. The Secretary of State for the Colonies requires an Assistant Master for the Education Department, Hong Kong.
2. Candidates should be trained teachers qualified to teach general subjects, have a University degree and possess a knowledge of English phonetics. They should be not more than about 30 years of age, and unmarried,
3. The engagement, in the first instance, will be for three years, and if at the end of that time his service has been satisfactory, the Assistant Master will be placed, if mutually agreed, on the pensionable establishment of the Colony.
4. The Assistant Master will be required to teach boys of Chinese or other race
the subjects required in ordinary elementary or secondary school work.
5. A salary at the rate of 3007. for each of the three years of the engagement will be paid to the Assistant Master, and, subject to the permission of the Director of Education, he may undertake private tuition. If he is placed upon the pensionable establishment his salary would be at the rate of 360%. per annum, rising to 5507, per annum by four annual increments of 107, and ten annual increments of 157. salary will be paid from the date of embarkation from England, and full salary from Half the date of arrival in the Colony.
For purposes of
The currency of Hong Kong is based on the silver dollar. payments in the Colony, salaries fixed in sterling are converted into dollars as regards 80 per cent, at the rate of ls. 9d. to the dollar and as regards 20 per cent. at a rate fixed by the Government, and based upon the average exchange value of the dollar during the month ending on the 15th of the month for which salary is to be paid. House or mess" accommodation is readily procurable.
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6. The candidate selected will be required to be examined by the Medical Adviser to the Colonial Office, and if the result is satisfactory he will be provided with a free second-class passage in mail steamer or vid Siberia, or first-class in an "outside" boat, to the Colony. He will be required to sign an agreement to serve the Government of the Colony for three years from the date of his arrival there, and should he leave the service before the end of that period for any reason other than mental or physical infirmity, he would be liable to be called upon to repay the cost of his passage. A free passage home will be provided at the end of the three years' period if the engagement is terminated for reasons other than misconduct. will also be provided before the expiration of three years if the Assistant Master is A free passage home incapacitated from further service by mental or physical disability.
7. 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 be 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
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