Auditor 21.10.33.
(in original for return)
Mr. Calder.
- 8MAR1933
No.3472/19. 3
52
Please see the attached letter from the Auditor
of Hongkong (sent in original for return) about
the class of steamer passages allowed to the Assist-
ant Auditor on £450 £50 £700 under the new
Passage Regulations.
It appears from Nos.10-12 of 92658/32 Hongkong
that, although Hongkong cadets, Passed and Unpassed,
and Police Probationers are not on a scale of salary
which goes above £800 a year, they are given first
class passages as if they were.
The effect of the new rule as applied to the
£50 £700 is very
Assistant Auditor on £450
unfortunate, for:-
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(a) It deprives him of first class passages,
(b) It differentiates him from the other
Hongkong Assistant Auditors, though their posts
are in the same Class in the classification of the
Colonial Audit Department,
(c) It puts him in a lower stratum of the
Hongkong Service than the Cadets and Police
Probationers whose educational qualifications etc.
are similar to, or lower than, those of the
Colonial Audit Department officers now being
recruited, and
(d) It differentiates him from every other
member of the Colonial Audit Department. In no
other Colony is an Assistant Auditor expected to
travel second class by ocean steamer.
I do not suppose that in framing the new
Passage Rules this was intended, and I should be
glad if it could be remedied, either by the
addition of Assistant Auditors to the existing
exceptions