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CONFIDENTIAL.
Sir,
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
20th January, 1939.
I have the honour to refer to your confidential
3/38. despatch of 17th November, 1938, on the subject of the
11-138 2/7/38.
organization of the Hong Kong Administrative Service and the
salaries and acting allowances attached to Class I of that
service.
2.
I enclose for your information a copy of amendments
to General Orders which have been made to give effect to your
approval of the proposals made in my confidential (2)
despatches of 4th April, 1938, and 13th September, 1938. The
revised rate of acting pay, i.e. a flat allowance of £200
per annum has been applied with effect from the date of the
General Order, except in the case of Mr. R.R. Todd who has
been acting since March 1936 in the post of Chairman of the
Urban Council, and in whose case, for reasons explained below,
I have directed that acting pay should be paid with effect
from 1st January, 1938.
3.
When Sir Andrew Caldecott submitted his proposals for the general revision of salary scales, he proposed, as an integral part of his scheme for the Administrative Service, that the Chairman of the Urban Council should be raised to the
rank of a super-scale post with a fixed salary of £1,600 per year. Had that scheme been brought into operation any officer acting in that post would, under the usual Colonial Regulation,
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,
&c., &c., &c.