No. 392.
Sir,
RECEIVED
14 AUG 1933 CO. REGY
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONG KONG, 13th July, 1933.
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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your despatch No.193 of the 17th May, 1933, regarding the
passages to be granted to the Third Assistant Auditor, Hong
Kong, and to state that I feel considerable diffidence in
asking the Legislature of the Colony to increase its
liabilities in respect of this officer's salary in order that
its liabilities in respect of his passages may also be
increased, the more so that a petition has been received
from the Assistant Government Analysts asking for a similar
dispensation from the new rules. This petition is being
forwarded to you separately and will almost certainly be
followed by others from officers such as Assistant Marine
Surveyors who will receive second class privileges instead
of first, if the dividing figure is raised to £825 as
recommended in my telegram No.74 of the 25th April, 1933.
A definite salary limit was adopted in the new
passage rules with the express purpose of avoiding the strat-
-ification of the service which was a feature of the former
rules. A certain degree of stratification is of course inherent in the variation of salary scales, but I do not consider that the equation of an officer's passage privileges with the
facts of his salary in any way adds to this stratification.
Special exemptions from this equation, on the other hand, must
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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
SIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.,
destroy
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