Cost of Living allowance of 71⁄2 or 15% with six
years to serve before he reaches £1400+ H.C.L.
allowance.
£50 - £1500
A salary of £1300 -
which is less than what is proposed by the
salaries Commission for the Head of the Police
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and the Harbour Master
£1350 £50 - £1600,
I have known Governors who I think, would have tried it - and one of them was Gov.of Hong Kong.
(Int.) A.F.
(and I see that the Hong Kong Government propose
to put the Head of the Police up to £1450 £50 -
-
£1600 and the pay of the Deputy Head to £1400) - would enable Hong Kong to get a really good.
Auditor. If however it is thought impossible
to give the Auditor a maximum of £1500 though
I consider that the Auditor ought to have a
higher maximum than the maximum (£1400) of the
time scale to which every Cadet Officer can rise
automatically provided he passes his "Efficiency
bars", and he certainly ought to get more than
the Deputy Head of the Folice Department, I should
be prepared to accept as a compromise a fixed salary of £1400 plus H.C.L.allowance (or £1450 if the Deputy Treasurer or Deputy Head of the Police Department is given £1450). A fixed salary is in many ways more suitable for an Auditor than
an incremental scale, as the latter may tend to
deter an Auditor from doing his duty if he has
not attained his maximum and is confronted with
a Governor who, he thought, might use his power of withholding an increment certificate to induce
the Auditor to refrain from pursuing some question which the Governor wanted to be dropped. I don't say that any Governor would so abuse his powers;
but