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GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG. 4th July, 1922.
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Sir,
I have the honour to submit for your approval certain increases in the pay and pensions of the Indian Police Force of this Colony which were sanctioned with effect from July 1st, 1922, subject to your approval, by Sir R. E. Stubbs prior to
his departure on leave. The present scale of salary is as shown
on the accompanying statement.
2.
Certain proposals for a general increase of salary
in the Indian contingent were submitted by the Captain Superinten-
-dent of Police in October, 1921, but were not received in
sufficient time to allow of their consideration for the 1922
Estimates. The arguments advanced in favour of these proposals
were:
(a) that salaries were inadequate, considering the duties
and responsibilities involved,
(b) that the increases granted to the Indian Police at the
time of the revision of salaries were not equal to those granted in other Departments and in other Police Forces employing Indian Police, and
(c) that without doubt the present scale was not sufficiently
high to keep the Indian officers and men from being discontented and possibly disloyal, a state of things which, at all times highly undesirable, is particularly
so at the present time.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
WINSTON CHURCHILL, M.F.,
&c.,
&c.,
&c.
3.