Enclosure
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r Alexander William George Herder Grantham
Knight Grand Cross of the Lost Distinguished
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-chief of the
Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies .
SHEWETH
The Humble Petition of the European
Police Inspectors' Association
1. That Your Petitioners are the European Police Inspectors' Association whose membership includes European Inspectors,
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(1) Who were members of the Hong Kong Police prior to
December 1941.
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(2) Who were members of the Metropolitan or other
Police Forces in the British Isles and joined the Hong
Kong Police under 5 years agreements in 1945 or later
(3) Who were members of the Shanghai Municipal Police
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(4) Who joined from the Royal Navy in 1946 .
That Your Petitioners have been served with Forms A
Salaries Revision 1947, by which they were given unconditional and irrevocable option either to remain on the present salary and conditions of service, or to convert to the revised salary and
conditions of service. That the payment of arrears of salary could not be authorized until the exercise of the option ( Form C)
be signed and completed
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3. That in view of the opinion expressed in paragraph 89 of the Report of the Salaries Commission (hereinafter referred to as the Salaries Report "l ) it is manifestly inequitable for
Police Officers to have no alternative but ei ther to accept the new conditions (which have not been definitely formulated and which Your Petitioners submit require substantial amendments)
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