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to the salaries of officers whilst they
are actually serving in Hong Kong the
salaries themselves being based on the
West African scales) trompensat thrm for tour high
Arrop thing in than Chandy.
of
do not feel abh bi accept entirely the miw oom Anomalies ('tir.) Paragraph 13. I suggest that the ideal
"cost of living" or "residential" allowances
ammum,
laper off to thing, for
(or some very low figerne) and, should not start at nil and having riseň risin systematically with salary uplin gradually, subsequently fall again; and example,
there seems to be little object in paying
as
any officer a cost of living allowance of
• propost in the sport in certain cases. Again year. I would further suggest that
£4 a year
sums tome li open
the scheme proposed) in the report is liable
to objection in that after an officer reaches
a salary of £1,000 a year the practical
effect of the scheme is to reduce the
me
amount of his increments. It seems to e
a matter for consideration whether there
shi by mante
should not be provision for some reasonable
payment to all time-scale officers, whether
on probation or confirmed, since, granted
that the expense of living in Hong Kong is
What
higher than in West Africa, the extra expense
falls on an officer during the whole of his
residentixi