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THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE
UNDERSIGNED EXECUTIVE ENGINEERS
AND ENGINEERS OF THE PUBLIC WORKS
DEPARTMENT OF HONG KONG TO THE
RIGHT HONOURABLE THE SECRETARY OF
STATE FOR THE COLONIES,
SHEWETH:
THAT, we, the undersigned Executive Engineers and
Engineers of the Public Works Department of the Government
of Hong Kong crave YOUR consideration on the matter of
YOUR petitioners' remunerations consequent upon the proposals
of Government to introduce new salary scales,
2.
That, YOUR petitioners are now receiving salaries
which were recommended by the Salaries Commission of 1929
and subsequently approved both by Government and by the
Secretary of State for the Colonies at that time.
3.
That, the Salaries Commission of 1929, which
included two of the most prominent and capable representa-
tives of local business firms, made a thorough investigation,
during a period of normal trading conditions, of all the
pertinent factors affecting our remunerations and that the
recommendations made by this Commission were considered by
it to represent a reasonable standard of remuneration
compatible with the responsibilities of office, professional
qualifications required, social obligations and cost of
living.
That, in 1936 partly on grounds of financial
stringency and partly on grounds of unification of the
Colonial Services, Government intimated that it proposed
to introduce new salary scales, details of which were
given in Sir Andrew Caldecote's despatch to the Secretary
of State dated 19th August, 1936, to be applied to new
entrants to the Service and, at some date to be announced,
to existing officers on promotion.