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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 8th October, 1924.
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I have the honour to invite your attention to paragraph 4 of my Confidential despatch of the 12th of July in which I referred to the fact that the commencing salaries for school masters in the Education Department were not intended for married officers.
2.
This question has arisen in a somewhat acute
form in connection with several officers who have been
recruited since the War.
The seven men whose names are given in the
attached list, all of them married on joining the service
and with considerable periods of war service, have been
recruited since the War.
I have examined statements of expenses submitted by several of these, and I an satisfied that in
some cases at least it is not possible for them to support
their wives and families on the salaries of their appoint-
ments, though these would be ample for unmarried men.
3.
A measure of relief has already been extended to all of these seven masters by allowing them one increment in respect of war service, but in the case of men who, owing to their war service, entered the service of this Colony at a higher age than the normal I would ask authority for granting some further concessions.
THE RIGHT HONOURASLE
J. H. THOMAS, M.P..
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