12 JUN 50
COL. OFFICE
TELEPHONE
CITY 5856.
Sir,
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社中英
會華商
CHINA
AssociaTION.
99, CANNON STREET,
LONDON, E. C. 4.
87
11th June, 1930.
This Association has been in communication with
its branch in Hongkong and with the Hongkong Chamber of
Commerce in connection with the Report recently issued by
the Salaries Commission appointed by the Hongkong Govern-
ment.
In face of the recent heavy fall in the price of
silver, the proposed adoption at the present moment of the
recommendations contained in the Report has caused consider-
able apprehension in the minds of the commercial community
in Hongkong lest the adjustments proposed should cause wide-
spread dissatisfaction amongst the foreign clerical staffs and
Chinese labour in the Colony at a particularly inopportune
time.
The abnormal depreciation in the value of the
H.M. Under Secretary of State
for Colonial Affairs,
Colonial Office,
Downing Street.
S.W.1.