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Fara. 5.
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40 The relative seniority of serving officers with officers of the New Entry need not be tied to the date of making the New Agreement. Seniority will have to be decided on other factors such as age, qualifications, etc. length of previous service etc.
5. I suggest that it would be advisable to have telegraphed the actual text of the notice regarding the application of the new scale of pay to serving officers and the appointments of a Committee to review salary scales of certain classes of posts in other departments after civil government has been established.
Local Inspectorate
I agree with the proposal to increase the local Inspectorate from 51 to 38 and I agree with the salary scale shown in the table attached to Saving Telegram No. 1366.
2. I also agree with the proposal to provide for 8 local Asst. Superintendents on $6,000 x 300 7,500.
Chinese Rank and File
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I agree with Col. Sanson that the rates of salary he now proposes are what should have been paid before the war to the Chinese rank and file. In October 1941 I detailed Mr. W.P. Thompson, Senior Supt., to make a wide survey of the living expenses of the Chinese rank and file. Mr. Thompson submitted a valuable report which showed that the minimum on which a typical Chinese family, consisting of husband, wife, three children and a near relative (at least one of which almost every Chinese family supports), could live was from 843 45 p.m.
$ separate and independent survey made by the 0.C. Chinese Sappers at about the same time came to almost exactly the same conclusion. This is much in excess of what was normally paid to an equivalent class of Chinese by employers but such Chinese look for all kinds of perquisites attaching to their situation to augment their income, In the case of the police the search for augmentation of their income led to corruption which was widespread.
2. The above applied to the former ill-educated type of Chinese recruited into the police force.
3. The aim is to recruit a more educated olass of Chinese who would look for promotion. To attract such a class sufficient pay
is essential. These men have to enforce the law.
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In view of the foregoing, I consider that Col. Sarısom's proposed scale, which gives a man 240 p.m. when he becomes a lat class constable and $45 p.m. when he becomes a corporal is in no way excessive in normal times. The cost of living in Hong Kong is at present abnormally high so that the proposed scale is too low for present conditions, but I understand that all the men are drawing a rehabilitation allowance which brings a recruit's pay up to $60 p.m. which is what an unskilled labourer is earning today in Hong Kong. I therefore recommend that Col. Sansom's proposed scale of pay for the Chinese rank and file be approved.
5. I also agree that the establishment of the Chinese rank and file be increased from 1174 to 1409. I take it that this is necessary owing to the withdrawal of Indian police from ordinary police duty, with which policy I am in complete agreement. Indians should be kept for duty ina semi-military frontier constabulary and in the ri units, and not employed on beat duty.
Indian Rank and Fils. Beyond agreeing that a Gurkha section of th police would be valuable. I am not in a position to comment on the present Indian position
Rent Allowance. I entirely agree with the principles expressed a am prepared to accept the rates proposed by Col. Sansom as reasonab
I agree.
I feel that the figures supplied must be too theoretical to offer a basis for comment.