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£1500 or less, (e.g. Harbour Master). If the Director
of Education were granted a salary of £1600 plus free quarters it might be hard to resist a claim by his second
in command, the Senior Inspector of Schools, to the
elevation of his post to that of Deputy or Assistant
Director at a salary of £1300 plus free quarters, on
the analogy of the Assistant Director of Public Works and
Deputy Director of Medical Services.
5. I do not think that the fixation of the salary
of the Director of Education at £1500 would, in fact,
suggest that the post had suffered loss in status. It
is the case that in Appendix 6, Part II, of the Hong Kong
General Orders the salary of £1600 with free quarters was ascribed to it, but the salary scheme there contemplated
has never been put into force: moreover, if the point
were to arise which is unlikely the fact that those
emoluments appeared there would be attributed to the post
being then occupied by a First Class Cadet on the £1500 -
£1800 scale. The terms of my confidential despatch to
which you refer are, of course, unknown to the Civil Service in general and to the public.
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6. The Anomalies Committee originally made no recommendation on this matter because the members regarded the post as one in Class I of the Administrative Service and therefore covered by their proposals for that class. When the question arose in its present form the Committee had concluded its work and was therefore not consulted.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient, humble servant,
1. hot. kontest
Governor.