4103/45
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SAVINGRAM
To the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
From the Governor, Hong Kong.
Duf
an cipe
22
Date
5th
January 1950.
No.
10
STAFF
S123A
19
Officer.
1.
Payment of Acting Pay to Mr. P.M. Xavier, temporary Executive
Person named was first appointed as a temporary Accountant in the Food Controller's Office in 1941 and after the re-occupation he was recalled to the Colony from Macau and appointed as Temporary Accountant in the Police Force with effect from 22nd September 1945. As he was too old for appointment to the pensionable establishment, he was offered, and he accepted, an appointment on agreement for three years as an Executive Officer on a non-incremental salary of $840 p.m. with effect from the 1st of July 1948. Under the Salaries Revision he received a revised basic salary of $840 p.m. with effect from the 1st of January 1947.
2.
From the 1st of January 1947 to the 18th of April 1948 Mr. Xavier performed the duties of the former post of Senior Clerical and Accounting Cfficer Class II known as Senior Accountant, Police Force. This post became under the Salaries Revision, a post of Senior Executive Officer Class II on the scale $1120-1300 per month and as Senior Accountant, Police Force, it is a scheduled post of Senior Executive II, so that if it is not occupied by an officer substantively promoted to Senior Executive II the Officer under- taking the duties of the post is eligible for acting pay under the normal rules laid down in Colonial Regulation 4. Mr. Xavier was, therefore, considered to be eligible for acting pay during the period in question and Finance Committee approved in March of last year a supplementary provision of $2184 to cover the grant to him of acting pay of $140 p.m.
3.
It has now been pointed out by the Director of Audit that although there was provision in the Estimates for 1946/47 for one post of Senior Clerical and Accounting Officer Class II in the Police Force (Head 19/1), there was no such provision in the Estimates for 1947/48 (Head 22/1). In the Estimates for 1948/49 provision for the Senior Accountant post was re-introduced under Head 22/1, Senior Executive Officer. To regularise the payment of acting pay to r. Xavier for the period 1st April 1947 · 31st March 1948 it is necessary, therefore, to obtain your approval now to amend the Estimates for 1947/48 to include provision under Head 22/1 for one post of Senior Clerical and Accounting Officer Class II, which was the style still in use at that time. As far as can be ascertained, there was no particular reason for omitting the post from the 1947/48 Estimates except that Mr. Xavier was at that time performing the duties attached to it and his post of Temporary Accountant was already provided for.
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I should be grateful, therefore, for your approval to amend the 1947/48 Estimates as requested above in order to regularize the payment of acting pay to Mr. Xavier for the period of that financial year,
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