No 69-
52816
RECEIVED
! MAR 1928
ICOL,OFE
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 3rd February, 1928.
و جدا
Gov
19417/13
Aned 130
30174/27
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Sir,
With reference to Mr. (afterwards Viscount) Harcourt's despatch No.198 of 11th July, 1913, regarding the leave of the Governor's Private Secretary and Aide-de-Camp, I have the honour to inform you that I propose to regard these officers as eligible for six weeks' full pay leave in respect of each period of twelve months' resident service, subject to a maximum accumulation of three months' full pay leave in respect of a completed period of 24 months' resident
service, and I request your sanction to make provision in the Estimates for 1929 for acting pay accordingly, in order to avoid the necessity of approaching the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council for a supplementary vote.
2.
I venture also to recommend that the salaries
Owing to
attached to these posts should be reconsidered.
the amount of work he has had to perform lir. Forster, my Private Secretary, was last year granted a bonus of $200 per month, (see my despatch No.214 of 2nd May, 1927), which bonus is with the consent of the Finance Committee still being paid
to him.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,
&C.,
&c.,
&c.
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