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system of payment of Heads may, and does, load to Assist :nt Teachers' receiving higher salaries than the Heads. The meeting, therefore, requests that a separate salary scale for Hoads should be introduced or that the lines of the most recent Burnham Scale recommendations should be followed.
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I am instructed to press for the speedy implementation of the Clause providing for the payment of an Overseas Allowance to expatriate teachers which has been in the Code since 1946. Not only does indecision on this point make the task of recruiting staff from England desperately difficult, but the payment of such an Allowance has already been written in to the Agreements made with certain European teachers since the wor. To quote the same Report once again, "The scale (of salaries) should be calculated in such a way as to attract teachers with the qualifications assumed by Government to be necessaryil. The Meeting could see no reason why the implementation of this Clause should have been subject to so great a delay.
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Finally, I am instructed to say that represuntatives of the Anglican Grant Schools' Councils are entirely ready to meet with you, Sir, to discuss further any of the points raised in this document; or alternatively to arrange for a deputation from the Councils to discuss them with the Colonial Office authoritios and Mr. Rowell in London in July of this year.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient servant,
G. A. Goodban.
Ag. Hon. Sec. Anglican Grant
Schools Meeting.
The Acting Director of Education,
Hong Kong.
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