Appendix L.
Notes regarding quarters for Chinese
Subordinate Officers.
1. In 1924 a Committee was appointed to choose sites in Kowloon
for quarters for Chinese Subordinate Officers of the Government.
Two pieces of land at Coronation and Waterloo Roads, in Kowloon,
were earmarked for this purpose. But no provisions were made
in the Estimates.
2.
In 1924 certain flats in Shamshuipo were leased by Government
as quarters for Chinese subordinate officers.
3.
In 1925 14 houses were leased in Percival Street as quarters
for Chinese subordinate officers.
4.
The scheme to provide Chinese subordinate officers with
quarters had proved to be a failure, for the following reasons :-
(A) The localities of these quarters were not suitable.
(B) Only senior officers with more than ten years' continuous
service were eligible for such quarters on payment of 6%
of their salary for rent. On the other hand these
5.
officers were eligible for a rent allowance of between
$15 $25 in lieu of quarters.
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With such an allowance
plus the 6% which was deducted from his salary if he
took Government quarters, it was found that an officer
could obtain alternative quarters better than those
supplied by Government.
Subordinate officers with less than ten years' continuous
service were without quarters or rent allowance, so that the recom-
mendation of the Salaries Commission, 1929, that a rent allowance
should be given on entry into Government Service was passed over.