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DRAFT. LETTER
Your Reference.....
Hong Kong Salaries Commission.
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D.R. SERPELL, ESQ., O.B.E,
Dear Serpell,
TREASURY.
(169).
1. Will you please refer to our
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Savingram No. 680 of the 30th December,
(194)
(ISTE)
(157A)
1947 to the Governor of Hong Kong and tolhis
telegram No. 75 of the 20th January, 1948?
Savingram No. 680 was based on a Note by our
Colonial Service Departmnt dated the 17th
December, 1947, of which I sent you a copy
with my letter No. 53723/47 of the 22nd
The love
comparatively minor pomité raised in
FURTHER ACTION.
December.
2. I attach drafts of a telegram and
Savingram which it is proposed to send to
Hong Kong dealing with the points raised
in the above communications.
concur in these. faring nam 3.
are
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The Governor's comments on point (e)
to (h) of our Savingram No. 680 given in his
telegram No. 75 have been discussed here and
it has been decided that his views should be
accepted. Point (h) (basic salaries of
Principal Matron and Matron Grade I) is,
I think, the only one on which I need
comment.
4.
In the first place the uniform scale
of expatriation pay since agreed on for Hong
Kong