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Order 117 would apply to all officers on the new terms
as to quarters.
4.
In paragraph 10 of my confidential (2)
despatch of the 4th April, 1938, I stated that I was
deferring any recommendations as regards the salaries of
Administrative officers of Class I, on the assumption
that the existence of that Class will continue. The
Anomalies Committee now recommends (paragraph 24(a) of Report) an incremental salary of £1450 by £50 to £1600,
plus free quarters and a fixed acting allowance for
Administrative officers acting in Class I posts of £200
per annum. They also recommend a salary of £1700 per
annum for the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and a duty
allowance of £150 per annum to be added to the new salary
approved for the Colonial Secretary.
5.
No exact calculation of the financial effect of
the proposals now submitted has been made. The general
effect of the new scales will be a reduction of
expenditure on personal emoluments and, to a still
greater extent, a reduction on pensions.
Concessions in
individual cases are recommended which will reduce the
immediate economies to be expected but it was never
anticipated that the new scales could be applied without
any modification to serving officers. The net effect is
that no increase on actual previous expenditure, even
temporarily, is anticipated but there will be some small
increase over the expenditure which would have been
incurred if the new scales had been applied without
modification.
6.
Some difficulty arises as to the date or dates