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expression of salaries in local currency is
the only really satisfactory method from the
point of view of the Colony's estimates and
accounting; it makes for stability when
exchange rates are fluctuating, since the
exchange problems are confined to the
comparatively narrow field of remittances,
moment is
leave pay and pensions, and do not affect
the bulk of the salary votes./
therefore
The present however,
for
consider that, unless you are in a position
to bring forward strong objections, the revised
scales to be drawn up for new entrants should
be expressed in dellare.
(b) Quarters. The present arrangements
atein
Hong Kong for the deduction of rent in the case
of officers provided with Government quarters
and for the grant of allowances to those not
in opportune
making this change in "H; A I merely command
the
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prinsiple for your counideration at a later date, when the furtive of the currency of the can be fores.com Colony
so provided appear to me to be somewhat complicated,
and the system makes it difficult for a person
considering an offer of appointment to Hong Kong
to make out precisely how he will stand. Since
in
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