NATIONAL
SCHEME
DISABLED
MEN
Telephone No.: WHITEHALI. 1234.
In any reply
please quote Regd. No.
E.1711/3.
TREASURY CHAMBERS,-
WHITEHALL, S.W.1.
18th July, 1937.
Dear Gent,
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I mentioned to you on the telephone the position
which has arisen with regard to the rates of cost of
living bonus paid to certain locally entered staff employed
by the Admiralty at Hong Kong. You were good enough
to say that you would do what you could to help in the
matter.
Put shortly, the position is that the materials
on which the rates of local bonus have been based
hitherto have been found to be unsound, and the Admiralty
are now proposing to take in hand a fresh revision of
actual costs of living of the staff in question. The
attached memorandum shows the lines on which the Admiralty
propose to deal with the matter.
It seems to us that it will be a very real help
to the Admiralty and to the local naval authorities if
the Colonial Government will co-operate with them in the
manner suggested in this memorandum, and my purpose in
G.E.J. Gent, Esq., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C.,
Colonial Office.
writing