3.
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basis of the average age on first arrival for duty in a Colony
This average age has been determined from the 1936 Hong Kong
Civil Service List, and is a general measure of the pre-
service training, experience and professional qualifications
required for each service. The new total emoluments,
Hong Kong (vide Tables A - F), are compared with present
salaries plus nett rent allowances, Hong Kong, and with
Malayan salaries plus 15% in lieu of free quarters understood
to be a not unduly generous assessment. The table shows, in
relation to age, the "recruitment-grade-career-expectation"
for officers of average calibre. The Colonial Recruitment
Inducement Factor (C.R.I.F.) shows for the initial and
maximum salaries, the salary relationship of corresponding
services in the United Kingdom. It is believed that the
average ages shown are in accordance with the actual recruit-
ment ages for the same services in the United Kingdom.
known that the average age at recruitment for the marine
survey service in Hong Kong corresponds to that of Board of
Trade surveyors and it is thought that the average age for
the legal service shown will be found to be considerably higher
than that of future recruits.
It is
A further informative feature of the table is
that it shows the available age limit service beyond the
maximum of the recruitment-grade-time-scale-salary.
In the present Hong Kong salary column, the
recruitment-grade-cadre is given with the number of senior
appointments indicating the career-promotion-prospects which
each service offers in Hong Kong. The establishment in the
table includes officers on leave prior to retirement and
officers who have died during the year.
We take the liberty of quoting the following
relevant extracts from Mr. Thomas' despatch, together with
their paragraph references.
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