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reduce the number of super-scale posts to
which members of the Administrative Service
may be appointed.
It is probable that in
the near future the Director of Education will
no longer be a Cadet officer, but that the
post will be held by an officer of the
Educational Service, and other posts may, in
course of time, be filled from outside the
Administrative Service in a similar way.
This change appears to be inevitable,
however, and if there were maintained a fixed
number of appointments carrying super-scale
salaries, there would then be the anomaly
of an officer with a super-scale salary serving
in a comparatively minor capacity because
there is no longer a senior post open for him
to fill. I fear that the Administrative
Service may have to resign itself to a gradual
restriction of opportunities for promotion to
senior posts in Hong Kong, and accept what
compensation is offered by opportunities for
transfer in the Colonial Administrative Service.
? Acknowledge and say that
Sir Andrew Caldecott's proposals have been
adopted after full consideration and in the
light of conditions existing elsewhere in the
Colonial Administrative Service. The S. of S.
appreciates the regard which the 0.A.G. must
feel for the Service in which he was brought
up, but he regrets that in view of the decision
already reached it is impossible to alter the
new salary scheme which has been set up.
P. Royes
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