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* SAVINGRAM
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53723/9.
XKELEGRAMXXX
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To:--
GOVERNOR, HONG KONG.
Mr.
Mr..
Fanclough 27/2 Teget meier 2/2 3/3
Dr. Austin
Mr.
Palmer 4/3 Ar Hall 1/3
Mr Sidebo Kam
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116 MAR 1950
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Your Savingram No. 532 Staff of 10th
November, 1949. Petition from the European Health
Inspectors of the Medical Department.
The arguments aduced in the petition and
1
in your Savingram, concerning the salary scale for
European Health Inspectors Grade I have been I find some differuatting carefully examined. I regret to say thate I am
gree with the view expressed at the end
of paragraph 1 of your Savingram that there are no
grounds for maintaining that the position of Healt Inspectors Grade I is in any way less favourable
than that of similar grades elsewhere in the
service.
2. I appreciate the apprehension you express
in paragraph 4 of your Savingram that any conces-
sions to Health Inspectors would immediately be
followed by demands for similar concessions by
Police Sub-Inspectors, Prisons Officers Grade I,
etc. I realize also in this connection that a
petition by Police Inspectors for improved salaries
has recently been turned down (my Despatch No. 250
of the 18th October, 1949 refers) and this no doubt
makes it more difficult to contemplate any increas
in the salaries of poste which you consider to be
comparab