Sir,
Enclosure No. 1.
48
Government Marine Surveyor's
Office,
Hong Kong, 6th February, 1937.
Understanding that the salary scales of Senior
Officers are now under consideration we beg leave again to
address Government on the question of status and what appears
to be the inadequacy of the salaries of Senior Officers of
this sub-department. We humbly crave that the information
submitted may be placed before His Excellency the Governor
with our earnest plea that it may receive his sympathetic
consideration.
By courtesy of Government, we have received
through the Association of Professional European Civil Servants 3/53403|36a copy of Mr. J. H. Thomas' despatch No.82 of 12th March, 1936, ૩)૦૧૩|૩a Pa
on the application of the African salary schemes to Hong Kong, 5/5342336 and His Excellency the Governor's reply despatch, dated 19th
August, 1936, embodying the proposed new time-scales, for
certain of the larger Hong Kong Services.
The absence of a marine (ship) survey service
within the African scheme has prompted us to attempt an
analysis, on broad general principles, of the proposed new
time scales Tables A - F of the above despatch, (Table G,
being omitted on account of inadequate comparable information).
The object of this analysis was the determination of a Colonial
Recruitment Inducement Factor, as a ready criterion of the
relationship which the new time scales bear to the United
Kingdom Civil Service Salaries for each particular service.
It is believed that this is a sound basis for a comparison of
both status and salary, since the standard measured against
is that of the well established salaries of the Home Civil
Service, that standard from which candidates, drawn from a