No. CONFIDENTIAL.
Consid
1 (ON)
82798/31
Sir,
88798
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONG KONG, 21st April, 1932.
I have the honour to refer to paragraph 5 of my Confidential despatch of the 27th January, 1931, and to report that in view of the improved financial
position I have put into force with effect from 1st
January, 1932, the recommendations contained in
paragraph 97 of the Report of the Anomalies Committee
forwarded with that despatch, for the creation of a through time-scale for European Overseers in the Public Works Department and European Revenue Officers in the Imports and Exports Department. As regards the Sanitary Inspectors the Head of that department has represented that these officers have at present opportunities of promotion to Class I even before
reaching the maximum of Class II and that a through scale would thus be a diminution and not an improvement of their prospects. No action will therefore be
taken with regard to this branch of the service.
2. These proposals were endorsed by the Retrenchment Commission and have received the approval
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
SIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.,
&c.,
&C.,
&c.
of
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