A
Re
PROVISION OF SALARIES
Hong Kong
Copy of Extracts from Minutes on 53652/35.
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1. Minute by Mr. Gent
12th December, 1935.
and say that he regrets the necessity for the
imposition of a temporary levy on the salaries of
Government officers in relief of Government expenditure
in the present period of stringency, and that it is most
desirable that this levy should not be continued any
longer than is necessary, and that in order to effect the
restoration of a normal position the Officer Administering
the Government should consider, as occasion offers, whether
the present level of salaries is such that in all cases
they are justified, and whether the prospect of the normal
conditions which may be expected to apply in the future,
would call for any reduction on a permanent basis in the
case of new entrants of the present salary scales and
remuneration standards which have hitherto been operative
in Hong Kong.
2. Minute by Mr. Jeffries
13th December, 1935.
In connection with A of Mr. Gent's minute, I
think we might promise to send the Governor in a separate
despatch particulars of the revised scales recently agreed
upon for the main branches of the service in East and West
Africa after an exhaustive review of the recruitment
and other considerations. Mr. Acheson will be able to
produce the material and draft the necessary despatch.
3.