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month may be granted. Cost of living
is generally reckoned high, but salaries
were recently revised in light of
existing conditions. There is no
income tax.
Vacation leave is at rate
of1/8th resident service,. Free passages
for officer and family granted after
four years re si dent service or proportionately
reduced grant is allowed after shorter
period.
In event of acceptance
MacGregor should proceed direct to
Hong kong, receiving free passages
for self and wife cost to be recovered
from Hong Kong. Suggest he should be
granted leave earned by resident service.
Any period between expiration of such
leave and date of arrival in Hong Kong
will be at half Hong Kong salary.
I realise that transfer after
so short a period will be inconvenient
to your Government but I have carefully
con si de red the alternatives and decided
that