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The 1939
file mohoses that
in all cases the
salary and allowance than his first senior officer
above the time-scale.
This was the germ of the
scheme adopted in the Home Civil Service.
I do not think that we need anything more
elaborate for Hong Kong, and on the attached sheet
I have attempted to show the effect of granting a
residential allowance of 10% of the first £400, 5%
of the next £400 and 22% of the next £400; no
allowance would be payable on any part of salary
(and
in excess of £1,200, (and an officer in receipt of
21,500 or more would get no allowance at all. I
would ask the Governor to consider a scheme on this
recidental alle skull basis, but the actual percentages and amounts are
be payable up to the 127 E1200 of sulany
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only a suggestion for consideration.
Paragraph 15. With the scheme proposed
above there would seem to be no need to recast the
upper ranges of the Administrative, Public Works and
Education scales. There seems to be no reason why
the new scheme should not apply to Mistresses in
the Education Department (a the very fact that the
Anomalies Committee's scheme is not applicable to
the Mistresses seems to me to indicate a serious
weakness).
Paragraph 16. In any case the residential
allowances should be variable, if only because the
cost of living is not stationary.
Paragraph 17. Taken with the accompanying
tables, this means that officers serving in different
Departments in Hong Kong have different periods of
They should I think all be the same
probation.
(as indeed they are throughout East Africa
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except
on the Kenya and Uganda Railways and throughout
West
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