5. From Hong Kong
Sar. 120
14/3/47
Mr. Robison.
I understand from 5 that the total additional expenditure involved in the amended code, apart from that connected with bringing the salaries of Anglo-Chinese and vernacular teachers in grant-aided schools on to the same incremental scales as teachers in similar posts in Government schools, is £864 per annum at present and that this figure will rise to a maximum of £1064 per annum. Will you very kindly confirm that this is your interpretation?
If so I suppose we must put it to the Treasury and I have amended my original draft letter to Mr. Serpell in the light of this later information.
24.3.47.
Miss Ruston.
I agree with your total of the figures as given in (5) but I am afraid I cannot find the Code authority for the calculation of the figures in question.
According to Section 10 of the 1941 Code, the maximum salary that could be paid to any teacher was £600; according to the corresponding Section in the amended Code the salaries of teachers are to be at the rates laid down for assistant teachers in the Burnham Scale.
In the first place, to speak about the Burnham Scale is inaccurate as there are several Burnham Scales. There are two scales of salary for qualified assistant teachers in Primary and Secondary Schools; the maximum for men assistant teachers is £525 whilst that for women assistant teachers is £420. Are we to assume that when the Code speaks about the rates laid down for assistant teachers it implies that the men's scale is to be adopted. I think this must be so as separate scales for Europea
women teachers are not mentioned in the 1941 or the amended Code. Mr. Monks is chosen as an example in (5), Miss Hurrell is not. But the Code, which is a legal document, should be explicit and say that it is the men's assistants scales in Primary and Secondary Schools which is meant, as the for it is mientr
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The Code should also make it clear that the Burnham Assistant Scales would apply to new appointments and that those who were in receipt of £600 under the 1941 Code would continue to draw their salaries and that the maximum salary approved for grant for any teacher would be £600 + £150 Charge Allowance plus £100 Oversea Allowance = £850, or £820 in the case of women. But apparently only one teacher, Mr. Goodban, can reach this amount, though the Code does not say so, nor is there any explanation why he is the only one whose salary rises so that the increase of £qoin the total of
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