N°
238.
44137
L
145
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG.
12th. July, 1917.
Gov
7536
-73
sir,
Referring to Viscount Harcourt's Despatch
No. 64 of the 12th. March, 1913, I have the honour to transmit
the enclosed copy of a letter from the Acting Local Auditor
asking, with the sanction of the Director of Colonial Audit,
that the scale of salaries of Assistant Auditors in this
blony may be re-considered.
2.
The duties and responsibilities of Assist- -ant Auditors have undoubtedly increased in recent years and I am satisfied that the existing scale of salaries is no longer
adequate. I have therefore to recomend that the emoluments of
the two Assistant Auditors, which are at the rate of £420 to
£540 by £15 annually, be increased by the addition of duty pay
in the sum of £60 per amum, with effect from the 1st January,
1918.
3.
The grant of £60 duty pay will put the
Assistant Auditors on much the same footing as the Executive
Engineers, Second Grade, Public Works Department, who draw
$450 to £540 by £30 triennially, with £60 duty pay.
4.
As the Estimates for 1918 are in course of
preparation I have, in anticipation of your approval, authorized
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
WALTER LONG, M.P
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