No 554.
AIR MAIL.
Sir,
10
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
26th August, 1937.
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I have the honour to refer to your telegram
Y.No.138 of the 21st August, 1937, and previous
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correspondence on the subject of the recruitment of
Assistant Analysts, and to inform you that it has been
strongly represented to me by the Director of Medical
Services that the salary offered by this Government is insufficient to attract a suitable type of candidate in view of more favourable conditions of employment
obtainable in the African Colonies and elsewhere.
This view is supported by the terms of your telegram No.106 of the 21st June, 1937, which refers to the difficulty experienced in filling the post owing to numerous alternative openings for Chemists now being
offered.
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I should accordingly be prepared, should you consider it advisable, to introduce a scale of salary based on that paid to assistant analysts in the Nigerian Service parallel with the scales for medical and other officers set out in Sir Andrew Caldecott's despatch
5/53425/86. No. 491 of 19th August, 1936. Particulars of the proposed
scale and of the scale at present in force are shown in
the enclosure.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
W.G.A.ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P.,
&C.,
&c.,
&c.