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GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG. 14th. August, 1917.
With reference to my Despatch No. 238 of
the 12th, ultimo, I have the honour at the request of the
Acting Auditor to transmit the enclosed Memorial from the Assistant Auditors praying that they may be placed, as regards eroluments, in the same position as Third Class Cadet Officers.
2.
I regret that I am unable to support the
prayer of the Memorialists for the following reasons:-
(a). This Government has never undertaken to pay to
the Audit Staff salaries equivalent to those
paid to Cadet Officers.
(b). The emoluments proposed in my Despatch under
reference ore equal to those paid to Executive
Engineers of the 2nd. Grade all of whom at the
present time are senior in point of years and of
service under the Crown to Mr. Dallin the
senior of the two Assistant Auditors,
(c). I consider these emolumenta sufficient having
regard to the scale of emoluments obtaining
generally in the Hongkong Civil Service at the
present time.
3.
It is scarcely necessary for me to point
out that Mr. Dallin is mistaken in thinking that Mr. R. E.
Stubbs was sent to Hongkong to investigate generally the question of the salaries of officers in the Hongkong Civil
Service
E RIGHT HONOURABLE
WALTER LONG, M.P., &C..
&c.,
&c...
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