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Gov./6174/19-20./Hong Kong
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Downing Street,
20 March, 1920.
#132
DRAFT.
EC KONG
FIDENTIAL
sir,
I have the honour to
acknowledge the receipt of your
Confidential despatch of the 11th of
X December, 1919, submitting your
MINUTE.
recommendations with regard to the
Pat Mrs
Mr. Beckett 12 /3/20.
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revision of the emoluments of the
membe
f the Public Service of Hong
Mr.
K Mr. Grindle.
Sir H. Lambert.
Sir H. Read
Sir G. Fiddes.
Col. Amery.
Lord Milner.
Craps
ircular of B.Setts .Govt.
4:58 of 84. Refot.)
Farm & 12%.
Tort scherm for fansager for fort Shins
Two. Ading& wan
to Know
we are doing.
1
"Collection huramente)
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Kong.
2.
I have given careful con-
sideration to your proposal that
salaries should be fixed in dollars, but
that for purposes of leave pay and for
the calculation of pension an officer's
salary should be taken as the equivalent
of his salary at 2/- to the dollar.
As you pointed out, this amounts in the
main to the same thing as fixing the
IMPE
salaries at sterling and paying them
at the rate of 2/- to the dollar as
suggested