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It is thus appreciably a worse scale than the
existing one (which is a scale for Assistant
Auditors, not Senior Assistant Auditors); and it
compares quite unfavourably with the scales of
Senior Assistant Auditors in Tropical Africa, who
get free quarters worth at least £100 a year
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and live in a less expensive Colony.
I understand that it is not proposed to approve
the scale of "Residential Allowances" mentioned in
the Vacancy Form; but I do not know what is to be
substituted. If it is to be
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as I understand
it is intended to be an allowance to compensate
Hong Kong officers for the extra cost of living
in Hong Kong as compared with Tropical Africa, I
would point out that anything under £50 a year
would be derisory.
To make a reasonable allowance for no free
quarters and the higher cost of living, the total
emoluments of a Hong Kong officer ought, I
consider, to be at least £160 to £200 a year more
than the salary of a corresponding East African
officer
i.e. £80 to £100 a year for quarters
and £80 to £100 a year for cost of living.
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Director of Colonial Audit.
Si John Wanding
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