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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 15th April, 1919.
In continuation of my Confidential
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Despatch of the 31st. March, I have the honour to submit the
following comments on the Report of the Commission on the
emoluments of the Public Service of the Colony.
2,
I agree generally with the first five
paragraphs of the report merely remarking that the arrangement
made in 1913 whereby 80 per centum of an officer's salary is
draw locally at 1/9 to the dollar has proved an immense boon
far exceeding so far as I am aware any concession granted to
officers in the Navy, Army or Consular Service or the Civil
Service in Malaya or Ceylon. It is true that the currencies of
other Eastern Colonies and Dependencies are on a gold basis, i but I have reason to believe that the cost of living generally
has increased elsewhere in the East though perhaps not to the
same extent as in Hongkong.
3.
I agree with paragraph 6 of the report. I have always considered that the adoption of a 2/- dollar for
local payments was the most convenient system that the
Government could adopt, and I would extend the privilege to
salaries paid in all places where the silver tael or dollar
is the unit of currency.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
VISCOUNT MILNER, G.O.B.,
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