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A recommendation for filling the post of
Auditor will be sent in in due course when it has
been ascertained which of the officers whom I
consider the most suitable are desirous of the
appointment. The fact that the emoluments of
the post are not definitely settled is of course a serious handicapin dealing with the
matter at the moment. It would be a great convenience if this could be settled within, say,
the next three or four weeks so that the officers could be sounded knowing what the post is going to
be worth. As regards the future salary, the
telegram sent on 3rd February (No.2) was unhappily worded. What I said in my minute of 29th January (No.1) was that the pay of the Auditor should be
more than the salary of the Deputy Treasurer (or
whatever the second officer in the Treasury is
called) and at least on a level with the pay drawn
by Heads of Departments next below those who are
members of the Executive Council and that he should
not be treated as the Head of a minor Department.
But in the telegram the S. of S. is made to say that
the salary of the Auditor should not be less than
those of Heads of minor Departments, to which the
Hong Kong Government of course reply (No.5) that the
proposed salary is quite up to that proposed for
Heads of minor Departments. The 0.A.G's. statement
that "Of minor departments only two heads, Crown Solicitor and Land Officer, are on equivalent scale"
is not strictly correct, for the minimum salary
proposed