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TREASURY CHAMBERS,
GREAT GEORGE STREET,
LONDON, S.W.1.
16th September, 1947.
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Dear Galsworthy,
Please refer to your letter of 6th August regarding certain revisions proposed in the Grant Code for Hong Kong schools.
In general we have no objection to the revisions proposed by Hong Kong but in considering them a number of points have occurred to us which we think you might take up in relation to the revisions. We do not however wish to make our approval subject to satisfactory answers or explanations of these queries which we leave you to pursue. In the case of (c) however, you may be able to let us have forthwith a picture of what present allowances are.
(a) It appears that Head Teachers do not receive approp- riate Burnham Scales but Assistants' rates plus (from now on) an Overseas Allowance if domiciled overseas and a Charge Allowance. But Assistants also receive the Overseas Allowance and in certain circumstances (i.e. where the Head Teacher has a local domicile and is not on his maximum) the difference between the Head Teacher's pay and that of a Senior Assistant might be non-existent. The possibility of an Assistant's drawing the same salary as a Head Teacher is denied in the Remarks column of Enclosure 2 but it is difficult to see how this can be avoided in certain circumstances unless of course we are not in possession of all the facts
(b) The Burnham allowances for Head Teachers corresponding to Charge Allowances are subject to sex differentiation. No such provision is made here.
A. N. Galsworthy, Esq.,
Colonial Office,
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