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Enclosure 2 in No. 73.
REPORT of a Committee, consisting of the Treasurer, two Unofficial Members of Council, and the Acting Inspector-General of Police, on the Pay of Inspectors of Police.
We recommend that the pay of Inspectors of Police under a sterling scheme should be as follows:-
Third Class Inspectors
Second Class Inspectors
First Class Inspectors
class Inspectors of Police in that Colony from £180 to £200 a year, and that of third class Inspectors from £170 to £180 a year.
2. A similar change should be made in the rates proposed for Hong-Kong in the paragraph of my despatch above referred to.
£180
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£200
£220 to £240.
2. In making the above recommendation we have kept within the limits of the reference made to us, but as we believe that the Inspectors who are now on a dollar basis would refuse to come under the proposed sterling scheme, the proposal would afford them no relief.
3. As the Inspectors are the backbone of the Police Force, we consider that they should all be paid so as to ensure greater contentment than now exists. We therefore suggest that those officers who will not come under the sterling scheme should receive a special local allowance, non-pensionable and not bearing compensation, at the following rates:-
Third Class Inspectors, $10 per mensem.
Second Class Inspectors, $15 per mensem. First Class Inspectors,
FRED. G. PENNEY.
G. S. MURRAY.
SIR,
No. 76.
I have, &c.,
J. CHAMBERLAIN.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
MR. CHAMBERLAIN to GOVERNOR SIR F. A. SWETTENHAM. (No. 218.)
Downing Street, July 18, 1902.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 288, of the 12th ultimo,* enclosing a copy of a petition from certain members of the European Police Contingent in Singapore, who ask for an increase in their remuneration, and for relief in other respects.
2. You recommend that the salary assigned to Third Class Inspectors in the sterling scheme may be increased from £170 to £180 a year, and that of Second Class Inspectors from £180 to £200 a year.
3. I approve this recommendation; and I agree with you that it is undesirable
to adopt the suggestion that a special local non-pensionable allowance should be given to Inspectors already in the force, who do not elect to come under the sterling scheme.
May 23, 1902.
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W. J. NAPIER.
W. A. CUSCADEN.
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No. 77.
I have, &c.,
J. CHAMBERLAIN.
No. 74.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
GOVERNOR SIR F. A. SWETTENHAM to MR. CHAMBERLAIN.
(Received 3.30 p.m., July 14, 1902.)
TELEGRAM.
[Answered by No. 78.]
Do
you
Your despatch,* sterling, received. should come on at the minimum or maximum salary of their post, or as I think just, intend that those who accept scheme having regard to years already served in that post? As a rule they should come on minimum, when that gives an increase.
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SIR,
No. 75. HONG-KONG.
MR. CHAMBERLAIN to ACTING GOVERNOR SIR W. J. GASCOIGNE. (No. 216.)
Downing Street, July 18, 1902.
REFERRING to paragraph 18 of my despatch, No. 171, of the 13th ultimo,† on the subject of the scheme of sterling salaries for the Hong-Kong Government Service, I have the honour to inform you that on the recommendation of the Governor of the Straits Settlements, I have approved of the increase of the sterling salary of second
• No. 67.
† No. 66.
FEDERATED MALAY STATES.
HIGH COMMISSIONER SIR F. A. SWETTENHAM to MR. CHAMBERLAIN.
(No. 230.) SIR,
(Received July 22, 1902.)
[Answered by No. 82.]
Government House, Singapore, June 24, 1902.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 115, of the 2nd ultimo,† forwarding copy of a letter from Mr. S. M. Gregory, applying for the grant of "local pay," and inquiring whether I consider that this non-pensionable addition to an officer's pay should be drawn by him while on leave.
2. I have consulted the Resident General, and agree with him in thinking that, as the 25 per cent. allowance is practically, by the terms of paragraph 13 of your despatch, No. 243, of the 2nd August last, granted to certain officers in lieu of ex- change compensation, and as that non-pensionable allowance is not drawn while on leave by the officers to whom it is granted, there seems to be no good reason for making this allowance payable to officers while on leave. On these grounds I depre- cate the payment of the allowance to Mr. Gregory for the period during which he is on leave.
3. I had already decided, in March last, before the receipt of your despatch under acknowledgment, that Mr. Gregory was entitled to this allowance. Mr. Gregory went on leave on 21st January, 1901, and is, therefore, unless you rule that the allowance should be drawn for the period of his leave, entitled to the sum of $32.25, in respect of the period from 1st to 20th January inclusive. It was intended to pay Mr. Gregory this sum on his return from leave on the 20th April last, but as his leave has been extended until the 20th August next he may, if you so desire, be paid that amount through the Crown Agents before he returns.
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