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get a grant).
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Robertson and I think that the University should be
prepared to offer £1500, or even £2000, to a really good man, plus
$200 a month for a house allowance.
We think that the subjects which the Professor should be
specially qualified to teach, should be English Law and Comparative
Jurisprudence. A good lawyer working here should be able to
exercise a lot of influence in Shanghai and Nanking.
The Salaries Committee has suggested a new scale for
Senior Lecturers, namely £750 per annum rising by annual increments
of £40 per annum to £950. The only other whole-time post we are
suggesting is that of a senior lecturer. We suggest that he should
be recruited on the above scale. He would receive a house allowance
of $200 a month, if he were married and his wife were in the
Colony. We may take $200 a month as representing the outside cost
for house allowance. It is suggested that the Lecturer should
teach Roman Law and Constitutional Law.
The rest of the work we would arrange by part-time
lectures, paid at the rate of $15 an hour.
We should want an initial
grant, of £1000 for the library and an annual recurring grant of £100 We shall probably also be able to arrange for
They would
for the same purpose.
the students to make use of the Supreme Court Library:
also attend cases at that Court. It would be necessary to provide
the Professor with a whole-time stenographer. Such a stenographist could be recruited locally and would require about $200 a month. Another clerk would be required. We have three grades of clerks in the University, the lowest $50 a month - 10 - $80 a month; the middle grade $90 - 10 - $120 a month; the highest grade $120 - 10 - 180 (efficiency bar $150). I am including $100 for the clerk.
The general practice in Hong Kong is to quote salaries of