No. 768.
53712/1
Sir,
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
30th December, 1937.
Enclosures
Nos.1 to 4.
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I have the honour to inform you that I have
received representations from the Government Marine
Surveyors regarding the alleged inadequacy of their
salaries. Copies of the petitions and related diagrams
and tables submitted by those officers are enclosed.
A petition in somewhat similar terms was
forwarded under cover of Sir Cecil Clementi's despatch
No.37 of the 22nd January, 1930, and is referred to on
page 6 of the second enclosure to that despatch. The
request put forward in that petition was rejected, but
I am of the opinion that there may be grounds for a
reconsideration of the matter having regard to comparisons drawn between the salaries paid to Marine Surveyors in
Hong Kong and elsewhere, and between the salaries paid
3.
to Marine Surveyors in Hong Kong and those drawn by
technical officers in other branches of the service.
The present staff of the Marine Surveyor's Office consists of a Government Marine Surveyor on the scale £860 by £40 to £1100 and 14 Assistant Surveyors on the scale £550 by £25 to £825. The duties of these officers include all the functions of Surveyors of Ships in the Mercantile Marine Department of the Board of Trade.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
W. G. A. ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P.,
&C.,
&C.,
&C.
Tonnage