(a) Senior Master, one post, $3600 a year.
Class I H
II
III
IV
2600-100-3000.
1800-100-2500.
1250-75-1775.
600-75-1200.
(b) University trained teachers $1500-120-1620.
{ $1800-150-3000.
The present scale for Vernacular Masters which I will call
(c) is
Class I
$2600-100-3000.
II
1600-100-2000.
III
1250-75-1550.
IV
600-50-1000.
I propose that the maximum for all these masters shall be
raised to $4800: that for (a) and (c) the initial salary
should be $700. University trained teachers should remain
as they are up to $3000, but should continue beyond that by
increments of $150 to $4800.
10.
It is expected that future recruitments to
the English-teaching Chinese Masters' staff will be mainly
by way of University trained teachers. But there are more
than 50 English teaching Chinese Masters now on the staff
who were formerly pupil teachers or otherwise recruited and
trained at the Technical Institute. These men are doing
good work and form a loyal and trustworthy class of
Government servant.
Under the present system of promotion by
vacancy in classes their progress in the service is unduly
slow, and their prospects unduly limited. The same remarks
apply to the Vernacular Masters. The cost of living for Chinese has risen greatly since 1920, and I consider that
a system of continuous increments, subject to efficiency
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