3. AFT CYPHÄR TELEGRAN
TO GOVERNOR, HONG KONG.
FOR TREASURY CONCURRENCE.
(146) +(147)
IMMEDIATE
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1.
No.......Confidential.
Your telegrams Nos.1876 and 1879.
Hong Kong Salaries Commission.
Your paragraphs 2 and 3 Expatriation nev.
On further consideration I have reached conclusion
that uniformity need not be pursued. I accept in toto
rates of expatriation pay recommended by Commission.
2.
Your paragraph 5 New proposal regarding cost
living allowance of lower grades. Your savingram
No.86 has just arrived. I had not previously seen
terms of atrike settlement in respect of Government
daily paid labour. If you are in a position to give c
that
an assurance your present proposals would result in
total emoluments og Goverment monthly paid minor staff
becoming substantially the same as total emoluments of
comparable Maval Dockyard staff I shall be prepared to
approve them. But if as regards the coolie grade the
continuance of the practice of paying rehabilitation
allowance to Government coolies at artisan rate instead
of coolie rate would result in Government coolies
receiving greater total emoluments than Dockyard
coolies, I consider that further justification is needed
on this point, and that if there is no other reason for
continuation of rehabilitation allowance at artisan
rates for Government coolies than that it has hitherto
been granted, the present opportunity should be taken
to correct this anomaly. If your new proposals are
agreed to, I consider, subject to any comments you may
have, that effective date should be same as effective
date of increases granted to others after August
strike, Commission's recommendations being accepted
for period between 1 January 1947 and that date.
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