NOX CONFIDENTIAL.
RECEIVED
55712/1/38
24
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
12/53723/39
in cire.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
Sir,
- 7 SEP 1939
C. O RECY
25th August, 1939.
I have the honour to refer to my
confidential despatch of 12th October, 1938, on the
subject of the salaries of Government Marine Surveyors,
and to inform you that I have assumed, from your general approval of the recommendations of the
Anomalies Committee regarding new salary scales, conveyed in your confidential (4) despatch of 27th
April, 1939, that the proposals contained in my
despatch under reference were approved subject to
modification of the residential allowance scheme as
now agreed. The salaries as set out in the enclosure to my despatch of 12th October have accordingly been
included in the scales recently published in the
revised Appendix VI to General Orders with the further
modification that the salary of the Principal Surveyor
of Ships has been fixed at £1,200 instead of £1,250 in
view of the new terms of residential allowance
applicable to him, in the same way as for other officers
whom it had originally been proposed to place on the
fixed salaries of £1,250.
2.
The general principle has been adopted of
permitting officers serving on the old scales to transfer
to the new scales at the corresponding incremental
MALCOLM MACDONALD., MP.,
&c., &C.,
Sz