UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG.
General Conditions of Service.
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Salaries are quoted indifferently in £s or
at the rate of $ 10 to the £1. They are paid in £s when a member of the staff is out of the Colony (except in the case
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of temporary absence in the Far East) staff is in the Colony he is paid in $s,
When a member of the
save when the value
of the $ falls at the end of any month below 2/-, in which
case the equivalent of the salary in £s is paid in
at the current rate of exchange.
Full first-class passages (up to a maximum equal
to the P. and 0, fare) are paid for a member of the staff,
his wife and his children under sixteen, when travelling
to take up an appointment and on final retirement in due course, save where it is expressly stated that second class
passages only will be paid. Provided that in the case of
Junior Lectureships, applications for which are restricted to
bachelors, no passages for a wife or children will in any
case be paid either for the voyage out or, in the event of
retirement at the end of the first contract-period for the
voyage home, Half sterling salary is paid during the
journey out and full sterling is paid on the homeward voyage (the duration of which is taken at six weeks) when a member
of the staff retires on the satisfactory completion in due
course of a contract of service for a term of years,
Members of the staff are entitled to free quarters
or to a house allowance. In the case of a junior lecturer
serving on a first contract, bachelor quarters will generally
be available and any house allowance will be at the rate
proper for a bachelor. The number of quarters available
1.