No. 208
AIRMAIL
Sir,
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG,
11th March, 1937.
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I have the honour to refer to Mr. J.H.
3/53723/36 Thomas' despatch No.82 of the 12th March, 1936,
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and to the correspondence which has since ensued
regarding the revision of salary rates in this
Colony and to enquire, with reference to paragraph
10 of Mr. Thomas' despatch, what action was actually
taken in the African Colonies as regards the
application of the new scales of salary to serving
officers.
2.
I may say at once that in my opinion no
attempt should be made in Hong Kong to apply any of
the scales set forth in the first enclosure to my
despatch No. 138 of the 9th February, 1937, to serving
officers. These are all time-scales, or upper storeys
of them, and I feel that to apply them to existing
Civil Servants would interfere too greatly with
their reasonably anticipated prospects to admit of
justification. I do not therefore desire to explore
that possibility.
3.
As regards the appointments listed in
Enclosure No.2 of my despatch No. 138 the position is,
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE,
W. G. A. ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P.,
&C., &C., &C.