Copy.
Enclosure No. 3.
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HONG KONG CHINESE CIVIL SERVANTS' CLUB,
35, Queen's Road Central,
Hong Kong, 12th August, 1927.
The Honourable
The Colonial Secretary,
&c., &c., &c.
Sir,
With reference to my letter of 22nd November, 1926, and your reply to same dated 7th January, 1927, re appeal from Junior Clerical Staff for having them placed on the footing as Chinese teachers in respect of scheme of continuous increments, I have the honour to request on behalf of these officers that the Government will be good enough to reconsider the question.
It was pointed out in your letter that teachers enter the Service of Goverment as trained officers with tested qualifications and abilities. connection, I cannot help pointing out the
In this
fact that many
of the clerks in the service have also qualified themselves and passed a course of training like some of the teachers appointed in recent years do, and that most of them have been holders of certain certificates on subjects such as Translation, Interpretation, Book-keeping, Accounting, Short hand, Typewriting, etc.
Apart from those enumerated above, quite a large number of clerks has proved themselves as efficient as the teachers in their respective branch of work, and it is needless to say that in revising salaries of the whole
service