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taking of the figure 1,200 as the dividing point between unmarried officers has the further advantage that a bachelor
on the maximum salary of Grade III with a 10 per centum bonus in addition will still be drawing $120 per annum less
then a bachelor on the minima salary of Grade II.
I have included bachelors in this
proposal iv for two reasons; firstly because the very great
majority of the officers covered by the proposal are married,
and it would be a matter of extreme difficulty to ascertain
the actual domestic circumstances in individual cases; and
secondly because the very subordinate officers are specially
affected by the rise in the price of food and by the increase
in rents, of which increase the Rating (Special War Rate)
Ordinance, 1917, has, I am afraid, been a principal cause.
Proposal v provides for the bonus being paid upon the salary actually drawn in the Colony, salary
including duty pay.
With regard to proposal vi, the Cable
and Postal Censors draw substantial suns in addition to their substantive pay. Certain officers in the Harbour Department are paid by the Naval Authorities for work in connection with the Examination Service. Host of the Doctors in the Medical Department receive good remuneration for lectures at the Hongkong University. I am not propared to recommend that officers receiving such additional emoluments
should also get the 10 per centum bonus.
Similarly with regard to proposal vii, there are several cases in which both husband and wife are employed; for instance, the wife of a Sergeant of Police is getting £200 as a schoolmistress; a husband md wife are both employed in the Education Department; the wife of a Medical Officer is employed as a Sister at the Civil Hospital; the wife of an officer in the Public Works
Department
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