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commencing salary of $800 per mensem was proposed
in view of the fact that Education Officers
appointed to Hong Kong are required to have a
minimum of three years' teaching experience in
addition to standard academic qualifications
(vide No. 4 on 21127/2/A/7/47). Adoption of
the formula proposed by the Secretary of State
for granting increments for experience to
teachers would not only achieve the same result
but it would provide for the case of the teacher
with less or more than three years' teaching
experience. In these circumstances a minimum
of $720 is considered suitable.
(3) Airport Officers and Air Traffic Control
Officers: Grades I and II.
The scales proposed for these grades should,
if possible, be adjusted to avoid overlapping.
(4) Labour Commissioner
As the officer is Head of a Department it
would be preferable and in accordance with normal
Colonial Service practice that a fixed salary should
be attached to the post rather than a scale. It is
considered, therefore, that the salary should be
$2,400 per mensem as against $2200/$2400 recommended
by the Commission (£2100 per annum for expatriate
officers as against £1950/50/£2100).
(5) Prisons Officers
The scale recommended by the Commission
for Superintendents and Assistant Superintendents
of Prisons has a higher minimum and a higher
maximum than the corresponding scale for police
officers. The higher minimum may well be justified on
the grounds that the Assistant Superintendent of
Prisons is normally much older than the Assistant
Superintendent of Police on appointment to that
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