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ENCLOSURE NO. 2.
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In Appendix II the petitioners humbly
submit for your consideration a
comparison of the salary scales in
West Africa and Hong Kong. In Scale B
of this Appendix they have outlined a
scheme which is, save in one respect,
comparable to that of West Africa and,
while entailing reductions, especially
in pension prospects, when compared
with that fixed by the Hong Kong
Salaries Commission of 1929, is
never the less one which officers might
reasonably be asked to accept.
Scale B of this Appendix, providing
as it does for rive super scale posts
and four senior grade posts, would offer
prospects of promotion consonant with
the suggestion contained in the
Secretary of State's dispatch as quoted
in paragraph 11.
In one respect there is a disparity
between the scale which your petitioners
propose and that adopted in Test Africa;
namely, in regard to the initial salary
of officers on probation. At such a
time high initial expenses are incurred
in the purchase of tropical clothing
and in the payment of club entrance
fees. It may also be observed that in
Hong Kong, owing to a shortage of
houses, especially at the present time,
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