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misunderstanding on the subject.
9. In paragraph 6 of the Governor's despatch
No. 491 of the 19th of August, 1936, submitting the
proposed new salary scales, he explains the absence of
a "promotions bar" in the Administrative Scale by saying
that the Hong Kong Service is so small that a division
of Administrative time scale posts into two classes
would be a matter of great difficulty and almost
certainly result in undeserved blockages of promotion;
and in Table G (Audit Service) a footnote appears to
the effect that "there are no Hong Kong appointments
for inclusion in the African promoted class £840 - £920."
The above consideration, however applicable to the
Hong Kong Administrative Service, is hardly applicable
to the Colonial Audit Department, the officers of
which form part of a fairly large and completely unified
Service, in which promotion is usually by transfer to
another Colony and in which an Assistant Auditor has
a considerable number of Colonies to which he can look
for promotion in due course. In the case of the
Hong Kong Audit Department, it is very desirable, both
on general considerations connected with the adminis-
tration of the Colonial Audit Service as a whole and
on the ground of the efficient conduct of the Hong Kong
Audit, that a post should exist comparable either with
the Deputy Auditor grade (Class II) which exists in
Nigeria, Gold Coast, Kenya, Thaganyika Territory
and Malaya, or with the Senior Assistant Auditor (Class III)
of