not specify how those Posts should be allotted. Since the inception of the new
scale, the procedure adopted by the Education Office has been to allot all four Posts purely on grounds of seniority, regardless of qualifications or the lack
of them. The only ground of eligibility for these Posts, therefore, is to have
stayed in the Department longer than other members.
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Here again we would humbly submit that, as in the case of Belilios
Public School there is no possibility of distinction for any woman Graduate
member of the Department who may devote herself to her work with ability and vigour. We feel sure that such procedure is not for the highest good of the Department,
nor is it an encouragement to the younger members when they start their work in
the Colony full of enthusiasm and up-to-date ideas. In quoting from the Standard
Scales of Salaries as laid down in the Burnham Awards of 1927 we have ventured to
show that in all classes of schools in England and Wales the Education Authorities.
are empowered to give a special addition to the standard salary in the case of Senior Mistresses in Mixed Schools. The Burnham Committee, in making this provision,
recognise that the Senior Mistresses in such schools have special responsibilities
involving special remuneration, and we would humbly request that the same principle
be applied in Hong Kong in the case of Central British School, Kowloon, We humbly
beg, therefore, that one of the four Senior Posts be reserved for the Senior
Mistress of this school, whatever her length of service be compared with that of
other members of the Department.