Ne. CONFIDENTIAL.
AIR MAIL.
21
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
196 1.00 £1
27th September, 1937.
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Sir,
I have the honour to address you with
regard to the salaries proposed for the Administrative
Service under the general revision which is dealt
with in your despatch No.220 of 12th June, 1937,
and previous correspondence.
2.
With great deference to Sir Andrew
Caldecott I cannot but view with disquiet the
proposal, set out in the third paragraph of his
despatch No.208 of 11th March, 1937, that prospective
applicants for appointments in this service should
in future see little chance in Hong Kong of attaining
the heights which are offered in Malaya merely
because of the geographical size of the latter or
because of the apparent importance of Residencies and
the like. I venture the opinion that an officer of
the Hong Kong Cadet service with twenty years'
experience of the language and habits of the Chinese
has as delicate and responsible a task as anyone in the Colonial Service even though the post which he
occupies may on its face appear to be of hardly
more than municipal importance.
3.
Of the time scale proposed for the
Administrative Service I have no criticism to offer,
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
W.G.A.ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P.,
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