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bepo finally deciding Fain report,
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proposed that
definite approval should now
be given by the Secretary of State to the
Governor's recommendation on the Anomalies
Committee's scheme.th the
matter concerning residential clie
The petition of the engineers of the
P.W.D., which is transmitted in No. 4 by the
Governor, contains representations against the
reduction of their terms of remuneration which
has already been approved as part of the general
new scheme. The engineers desire to retain the
more favourable terms which were fixed for them
by the 1929 Salaries Commission. The se
representations were considered by the Anomalies
Committee itself and by the Governor before he
approved that Committee's conclusions. The
Governor remarks that the 1929 Commission gave
the P.W.D. relatively more favourable treatment
in comparison with other departments than is
usual elsewhere in the Colonial Service. This
favoured treatment has been the source of constant
complaints by the officers of other departments,
and the Governor has no doubt that if a concession
to the P.W.D. as regards their general level of
salaries were now made, it would be followed by
similar claims from other departments in Hong Kong.
In two respects, however, he draws attention to
advantages which have accrued to the P.W.D.
engineers, first, the raising of the engineer in
charge of the Water Department to the status of
an Assistant Director of Works, and secondly,
the