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MEMO BY THE DIRECTOR OF COLONIAL AUDIT ON THE PROPOSED
SALARIES OF OFFICERS OF THE COLONIAL AUDIT DEPARTMENT
SERVING IN HONG KONG.
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At present the establishment is as follows :
1
Auditor
£1,400.
+ Locally
styled First
2
Assistant Auditors✦
on £800-£50-£1,050.
Assistant
Auditor and Second Assis- tant Auditor
1
Assistant Auditor
on £450-£50-£700.
The Governor proposes that it should be altered to :-
1 Auditor
£1,350 with free
quarters, reckoned at £150 a year for
pension.
3
Assistant Auditors
£25
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...
on £460, £460, £520, £570
£670, £700 (efficiency bar)
£800 £30
-
£920 with a non pensionable
allowance (drawn only while in Hong Kong)
at the rate of £50 (or $840) a year from
£520 to £920 inclusive, rising to £100 (or
$1,680) after the officer has been on a
salary of £920 for one year.
2. Subject to two assumptions and one alteration,
I consider that the above proposals are suitable for
adoption for the time being (as regards the future see
paragraph 7 below.)
3. The alteration which I desire is that there
should be two distinct and separate grades below the
Auditor
namely :-
Senior Assistant Auditor and
Assistant Auditor.
4.