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felt to be too low, and compare unfavourably with the maximum salaries of other departments: (b) progress beyond the Class II maximum of £600, being conditioned by the number of Class I vacancies above the £600 mark unduly cramps the hopes and prospects of Assistant Kasters.
To deal with the second point first I propose
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that the distinction between Assistant Masters Class I and Class II should be abolished and that all Assistant Masters should proceed from £400 to £800 by continuous increments. From £400 to £600 the increments would be £20 as now: at £600 there would be an efficiency bar, and thence progress would be by £25 to £800.
An additional advantage of this proposal is that the prospect of attaining a salary of £400 to £800, instead of £400 to £600, would increase the chances of recruiting good men at home. This aspect is important in view of the present difficulty of inducing good men to come here as masters.
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With regard to the higher posts, one of them, namely European (Senior) Inspector of Vernacular Schools, has now been abolished: (see your Confidential despatch of 16th January, 1926) on the other hand, with the opening this autumn of a new and spacious school, which will in future be known as "King's College", and will replace the present Saiyingpun School, a new post becomes necessary. This school, with room for some 900 boys, will no longer be a district school stopping at Class IV but will become the equal of Queen's College, educating boys up to Hong Kong University Matriculation standard, and the Headmaster will in every respect have responsibilities equal to those of the Headmaster, Queen's College.
The Headmaster of the future King's College,
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