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The present Special Class to which
the petitioners take exception, and which
seems to fulfil no useful purpose would be
abolished.
One of the petitioners complaints
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is that the proportion of posts in the upper
classes of the Service is too small, and this
they consider to be a contributary reason why
51.8% of the present officers are on the
maximum pay of their class. Under his new
scheme the Governor proposes provisionally the
following proportions on the basis of the
present establishment:
Class II
Class I
Special Class
550
20.
100
مدد
70
Sorry 60%
As far as I can judge this
apportionment seems reasonable enough.
Enclosure 4 to the despatch is an
estimate of the additional expenditure involved
by the creation of the new long scale in Class II.
The total cost over a period of 16 years is
estimated to be about $1,541,750, whilst the
average annual cost over this period is just
under $100,000, a considerable sum for Hong Kong.
To offset this large additional
expenditure the Governor recommends the
withdrawal
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