Particulars of the Office of Senior Traffic Inspector
now vacant in the Railway Department, Hong Kong.
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Duties of the Office and Qualifications required for their performance.
Language qualifications required.
Salary
(See also under 4).
Conversion of salary into lo cal currency.
Contribution to provident fund.
Allowances, quarters, and other circunstances affecting the value of the Office.
Age 23-28 possessing a sound knowledge of the various phases of traffic working on an English and/or Colonial Railway with particular reference to Block Telegraph operation on Single Lines, Control of staff, Guards' Rosters and Train working generally. The Duties are for the most part supervisory and it is desirable that the appointee should have had experience in staff supervision.
No objection to married candidates.
Nil.
1300-2430 by 8 increments of £15 and 1 of 10 annually - Free Quarters.
Salaries are converted for payment in local currency at a rate fixed from time to time by Government. They are at present paid at the rate of 1,5 = l so long as the Treasury rate of the dollar based on the average monthly rate of the H.K. & S. Bank remains at or below that rate. A deduction of 4% from salary is made as contribution to the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Scheme.
Free partially furnished quarters if available. If quarters are not available, a married officer, whose fa lily is resident in the Colony, will receive a rent allowance not exceeding $110 a month, if he rents a tenement with the permission of the Government; or a lodging allowance not exceeding $70 a month, if a separate self- contained tenement is not rented; and an officer with no dependents in the Colony will receive a lodging allowance not exceeding 50 a month; provided that the allowance will in no case exceed the rental which is actually paid, and that these allowances may be modified or withdrawn at any time on six months' notice being given by Government. It is a condition of the occupation of free quarters or the grant of an allowance in lieu of quarters that the officer conce med does not marry except with the consent of the Governor, which will not ordinari ly be given in the case of officers who are on probation or agreement. Free medical advice is
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available to officers and their wives and families at Government hospitals; and officers, their wives and chi laren may obtain free medical attendance in their own homes if unable to go to a Government hospital. Free Medicines are supplied with certain exceptions. Officers, their wives and children obtain reduced fees when immates of Government hospitais.