2.
4.
The Chairman of the Commissioners was
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His Honour Sir Henry Cowper Gollan, Kt.C.3.E.,
then Chief Justice of the said Colony. The
two remaining Commissioners were Sir Shou-son
Chow, Senior Chinese Member of the Legislative
Council and Mr. Paul Lauder, Managing Director
of the Union Insurance Society Limited of
Canton, neither of whom is or was connected
with the Civil Service of the said Colony.
5. After hearing the evidence of two hundred
and seventy seven witnesses representing every
class, grade and group of the Government Service,
the Commissioners submitted a Report which was
unanimous and which was published in Sessional
Paper No. 3 of 1930.
6.
In the aforesaid Report the Commissioners,
after referring to the greatly increased cost of
living during the preceding eight years, expressed
the view that a fifteen per cent addition to the
then existing nominal sterling salaries might
properly be regarded as representing a permanent
increase in the cost of living in the Colony.
The Commissioners recommended that all sterling
salaries of employees of the Government should be
increased by fifteen per cent ( subject to
conditions which provided for the retention to
an officer of the number of dollars which he was
then drawing), and that such salaries should be
paid to them when on duty in Hong Kong in dollars,
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