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applies to all/Colonies; yet no other
Colony has yet put-it-forward, a fact which
Would make it all the more difficult for us
to approach the Treasury on behalf of Hong
Kong at this moment;
5.1. In the circumstances it would seem
best to put the proposal for an large increase
in the permanent establishment into cold
storage until we have been able to get the
recommendations of the Salaries Commission
through and until the survey of the services.
with a view to reorganisation has been
carried out)-
67. It is however necessary to consider
whether an increase in the permanent establishment
is required to cover new officers who, in
provide
order to preserve a proper age balance in the
service, it is necessery, as explained in the
despatch, to recruit now. Paragraph 7 of the
despatch points out that Williams, Tsui and
Barlow, when they arrive in the Colony,
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(vide Enclosure no. 3 the depoting will be supernumerary to establishment.
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They
can however presumably be held against the posts
of Kennedy-Skipton, Burgess and Fortescue,
[their]
who are not drawing their pay from Hong Kong
funds. (In the same way presumably Follows is
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held against the post of Butters).
There remain
the three pre-war ex-I.C.S. officers whom you
have asked us to recruit (one of whom has in
fact already been selected). If it
held that Clinto