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THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE UNDERSIGNED
OFFICERS OF THE CIVIL SERVICE OF THE COLONY
OF HONG KONG TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD
PASSFIELD, HIS MAJESTY'S SECRETARY OF STATE
FOR THE COLONIES,
Sheweth :
1.
We, the undersigned officers of the Civil Service
of Hong Kong, humbly ask that the matters set forth
hereunder may receive Your Lordship's consideration in
connection with the question as to the method of payment
of the salaries of those officers of the Civil Service
whose remuneration was, until January last, paid on a
sterling basis.
2.
Information as to many of the facts hereinafter
set forth was not available on the 28th January of this
year when a petition was addressed to Your Lordship on
the above mentioned question.
3.
In paragraph 6 of the aforesaid Petition of the
28th January, 1931, the petitioners referred to the view
expressed by the Commissioners appointed to consider the
adequacy of the salary scales that a fifteen per cent
addition to the then existing salaries might properly
be regarded as representing a permanent increase in the
cost of living in the Colony, and in paragraph 7 of the
aforesaid Petition reference was made to the Commissioners
recommendation that the Government should continue to pay
a High Cost of Living Allowance not exceeding 15% and 72%
of the nominal sterling salaries of married and unmarried
officers respectively.
It will be within Your Lordship's memory that the
Commissioners' recommendations for the first above mentioned
15% addition to salaries was adopted, but the recommendation
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