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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
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HONGKONG.
26th June, 1928.
Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge receipt
of your despatch No.130 of 17th April, regarding the
leave and remuneration of the Governor's Private
Secretary and Aide-de-Camp.
2.
As regards the second paragraph of your despatch under reply, I would observe that any leave granted to these officers must be taken while either
the Governor or Officer Administering the Government is in the Colony, and there is no provision for separate salaries for the Private Secretary and Aide-de-Camp of an Officer Administering the Government. If either the Private Secretary or Aide-de-Camp is on leave at any time arrangements must be made, usually necessitating the payment of salary, for the performance of his duties.
It is, I think, unreasonable to expect that a Private Secretary or Aide-de-Camp should continue to work
indefinitely without leave, and in fact it has boen
found inevitable that sick leave should et times be
allowed. At the present moment my Aide-de-Camp,
TE RIGHT HONOURABL
LIEUTENANT COLONEL 1.C..S. ALTERY, E.P.,
&C.
&c.,
&C.
Captain