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Assistant Auditor (who would in fact be the Auditor's
Deputy) should be increased to £900 by £50 to £1,000
with local allowance at the rate of £100 (or $1,680)
per annum and the scale of the two Assistant Auditors
should then become £460, £460, £520, £570,- £25
£700, £760
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£30
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£670,
£820, with a Local Allowance of £50
(or $840) a year from £520.
8. The two assumptions upon which I put forward
the foregoing proposals are :-
(a) That it is agreed that a Colonial Audit Department
officer transferred from another Colony to be an
Assistant Auditor in Hong Kong will automatically start
at the point on the Assistant Auditor scale which he
would have reached if all his service as an officer of
the Colonial Audit Department had been on that scale.
This has been mooted previously in minutes on Colonial
Office files; but, so far as I am aware, no decision has
so far been communicated to the Hong Kong Government.
The arrangement is in force in the case of the Central
Office, East and West Africa, Malaya, and Palestine.
It is equitable and greatly simplifies transfers.
(b) That the Assistant Auditors, on whatever scale
they are, will receive first class passages not
second class. The question was discussed in correspondence
between the Governor and the Secretary of State beginning
with the latter's despatch No. 193 of the 17th of May,
1933. Mr. W. R. E. Stephenson on appointment in April
last as Assistant Auditor, Hong Kong, was given a first
class passage, but I do not want to have any future
misunderstanding
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