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Your Reference........
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Savingram.
CODE TELEGRAM
53723/47/48
CONFIDENTIAL
92
GOVERNOR
HONG KONG
279)
were on leave
decision offuers who pror to retirement on 1st January 1947 will be excluded from the benefit of the new scales.
This involves a departiere from acceplid practice which has hitherto been followed in all other
my approval
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given on the understanding that if
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1.
Your Savingram No.475 Confidential
Salaries Commission,
In view of your representations
I now accept recommendations of
Salaries Commission in paragraph 194
of Report.
In consequence of this
2. I note that you are prepared
to consider on their merits, for
application of the Salaries Commission
terms, officers who were on the Hong
Kong establishment on 1st January 1947,
but who were not on duty in the Colony
on that date, provided they
(a)
any case of anorialy it
or (b)
re-considerer
FURTHER ACTION.
Mr. Bancroft (Treasury
with copy of 279)
Mr. King (s)
Mr. Nicholls (S) i
have subsequently returned
to the Colony
have been seconded elsewhere
or (c) were on leave prior to
transfer.
and that in fact you do not
anticipate that any cases will arise
where application of the new terms to
refused
such officers will be referred.
3. I agree that 1st January 1948
should be taken as date of announcement
of "final approval of the recommendation
SFCER