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ducation Department,
HONGKONG.
16th 'pril, 1924.
Enehomme A.
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sir,
I have the honour to request your favourable consideration
of the following application for adjustment of my salary.
I was appointed to the Fongkong service as an ex-service
officer under the Reconstruction Scheme of Selection. In the
prospectus issued by the Civil Service Commissioners in
connection with this Scheme the following sentence appears:
"Candidates who under this scheme enter the service
at an age above the normal maximum of 24 years
will be allowedone increment of salary for each
year of their age above 24 at the date of their
qualifying examination,"
From the promise contained in this clause I conclude that
as my age was two years and more in excess of the normal.
maximum of 24 at the date of my examination (April 1919),
I should be entitled to two annual increments of salary as
from the date of embarkation. This is, I take it, the strict
minimum interpretation of the clause. It has been interpreted
somewhat more generously by the Government of the F.1.5.88
will be seen from paragraph 6 of the attached copy of the
letter sent by that Government to all ex-service Cadets in
that service, If my oase were dealt with in the same way as
the Mr Coulson who is taken as an example in paragraph 6 of
this letter, the result would be that my salary and seniority
would be determined as if I had joined the service on 22nd
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