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Sir,
27 MAR 1940 0.0. KL
Q.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
14th March, 1940.
I have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of your confidential despatch of 15th
January, 1940, on the subject of the salaries
of Mistresses in the Education Department on promotion to the posts of Senior Mistress and
of Senior Mistresses on promotion to the post
of Principal, Belilios Public School.
2.
I note your approval of my proposals and confirm the correctness of the assumption stated at the end of the second paragraph of
your despatch.
3.
It has been brought to my notice,
however, that there are at present in the service
three Senior Mistresses who do not fall within the
scope of my recommendation that all Senior Mistresses serving on the old terms, which include the privilege of reckoning house allowance for pension purposes, should, if promoted to the post of Principal, Belilios Public School, enter the new scale approved for that
appointment at £810. At the end of 1938 it was decided that any officer who had attained, prior to 1st January, 1939, the rank of Senior Mistress,
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,
&C., &C., &C.