(16,
Far East receive
ive
al Surveyor (such
(400 per annum.
400
(4)
220
1000 to 1100 per annum, whilst a Princip- 1000 to 1100
as Mr. Cox in Japan) receives 1300 to
works manager of a shipyard or engine ring works (of about
the size of Taikoo or Kowloon Docks) receives at Home 600
per annum which is practically the present salary, including
cost of living bonus, of a Board of Trade survey or with 10
years service. The present salaries paid to assistant Gover-
nment Marine Surveyors with 10 years service to their credit
are barely half those enjoyed by the assistant managers of
Taikoo and Kowloon Docks, taking into consideration the free
quarters and other privileges available to these officials.
(c) As a final comparison we would invite attention to the propor-
tionate salaries paid to shipyard and engineering works fore-
men here and at Home. A senior foreman in Kowloon Docks
receives between 145 and 50 per month with conversion
privileges, a free house, coal, light, mocical attention,
free passages for himself, wife and two children and a
Provident Fund, the benefits of which are available on
resignation or on death. A similar post at Home at the present time would carry with it a salary of between £25 and 4
4250
300 per annum, which indicates when everything 1 talen
into consideration, that the salaries paid locally to men in
these positions are from two to two and one half times those
paid at Home.
In the course of our official duties we individu-
ally deal with marine superintendents, shipyard and engine ring
works managers, marine surveyors and classification societies
representatives, and we are of the opinion that it is very neces8-
ary, for the efficient di charge of our duties, that our financial
position should be such as to permit us to meet these gentlemen
on terms of equality in social life, which at present is impo33-
ible. We cannot believe that it is the wish of the Goverment
to place us on a lower salary basis than these foremen of works,