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referred to above and which suggested that the system
whereby no rent allowance should be made to junior Civil
Servants until after ten years' service be abolished,
and that a rent allowance throughout the service ignoring
the ten year qualification be introduced. This recom-
mendation, however, the Government of Hong Kong did not
see fit to adopt and in all grades of junior servants
the whole of the rent has to be found out of their salary
until 10 years' service is completed.
26. The accommodation available at rentals varying between $7 to $40 per month in many cases involves living
under conditions which your Petitioners feel would be
condemned on medical grounds if the matter was fully
Indeed official notice has been taken of
gone into.
the increase of tuberculosis diseases amongst junior
Civil Servants for which inadequate housing facilities
at low rentals must, to some extent, be responsible.
27.
It is not known, and your Petitioners do not
presume to enquire, on what grounds the Government has
deemed it necessary to make a levy on their income, but
they venture to point out that a fair estimate of the
total saving per annum to Government resulting from the sacrifices asked from your Petitioners cannot exceed $230,000 and that this sum represents only 0.7% of the
assessed value, namely, $34,000,000 of the rateable
properties in the Colony
YOUR