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salary will not be reduced within reasonable
limits. From whatever angle it is reviewed,
cannot be considered satisfactory if half the
personnel every year receives no increment of
salary. (Vide Appendices D and E).
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Finally under this heading, the existence of a
"Special Class" of Junior Clerical Service has
helped to weaken further the prospects of promotion
to higher grades, especially as members of the
Special Class enjoy, by comparison, the prospects
of quicker promotions. Members of the Special
Class receive a commencing salary of $1200 a year (equivalent to the salary of a Chinese member of
the Junior Clerical Service who has ten years'
service or more to his credit), and are either
selected from the non-Chinese sections of Class
VIB or directly appointed.
Promotions to the Special Class have occurred,
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on an average, after five years' service.
twelve years or so will normally enable a member
propriat
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of this class to reach Class II right over the
head of men in Classes VI, V, IV and III
who have toiled about twenty five or more years
in the hope of Class II promotion.
Thus this short cut to Class II (
(itself an
unfair spectacle) adds further injury to your
petitioners' interests by creating a class of
rival candidates for posts which are already too
few to go round. As a consequence of this and.
the lengthy period which must elapse before a
man can get to the top, promotion to the top two
classes is becoming an unrealisable dream to an
increasing number of your petitioners.
Appendix J).
(Vide