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List B to posts for which technical qualifications are required, or to which it is for any reason undesirable to appoint cadets.
4. I would also suggest that for the same reason the four posts referred to in your despatch, No. 488, of the 11th ultimo,* should be included in the list of additional appointments open to (but not confined to) Passed Cadets, which is printed at the end of List A in the Sterling Scheme. I approve the salary assigned to the last-mentioned appointments.
I have, &c., (FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE),
ONSLOW.
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No. 125.
FEDERATED MALAY STATES.
Downing Street, January 16, 1903.
THE EARL OF ONSLOW (For the SecretarY OF STATE) to HIGH COMMISSIONER SIR F. A. SWETTENHAM. (No. 28.) SIR,
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 433, of the 13th November last,† forwarding a memorial from certain subordinate officers in the service of the Federated Malay States, stating that they are domiciled in India and Ceylon, and asking for the exchange compensation allowance and the grant of fixed rates of exchange for the payment of leave pay and pension in those
countries.
2. I concur in the view put forward in paragraph 3 of your despatch, and I shall be glad if you will cause the memorialists to be informed that
regret that their requests cannot be granted, and that they appear to me to have already received substantial benefits by way of increases of salary.
3. I take this opportunity of requesting that, if you have not already done so, you will issue a notification, both in the Straits Settlements and in the Federated Malay States, stating that exchange compensation will not be granted to any officer who may hereafter be engaged for the Government service. The classes of officers to whom this concession was granted will in future be engaged on sterling salaries.
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No. 126.
I have, &c., (FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE),
ONSLOW.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
THE EARL OF ONSLOW (for the SecrETARY OF STATE) to GOVERNOR ŠIR F. A. SWETTENHAM.
(No. 18.) SIR.
Downing Street, January 16, 1903.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 433, of the 20th October last, and to inform you that I agree to the posts a list of which is annexed to your despatch being included in the Sterling Scheme of salaries for the Straits Settlements, and I approve the sterling salaries proposed.
2. I should be glad to receive a similar list for the Federated Malay States, if there are any posts in that service which have been omitted form the Sterling Scheme on the same grounds as those referred to in your despatch under acknowledgment.
I have, &c., (FOR THE SECRetary of State), ONSLOW.
• No. 120.
↑ No. 114.
‡ No. 112.
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No. 127.
HONG KONG.
THE EARL OF ONSLOW (for the Secretary of State) to GOVERNOR SIR H. A. BLAKE.
[Answered by No. 133.]
(No. 16.)
SIR,
Downing Street, January 16, 1903.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 500, of the 13th November last,* regarding the salary of Mr. E. H. Carpenter, Assistant Engineer in the Public Works Department; and your despatch, No. 512, of the 15th November,† on the subject of Mr. H. E. Haggard's temporary appointment as Assistant Engineer.
2. I wish, before coming to the particular cases of these officers, and others referred to in your despatches, to deal with certain questions of principle which arise out of these despatches, in regard to the grant of increased allowances to officers in the higher ranks of the Hong Kong Service, and the Scheme of Sterling Salaries. 3. In paragraph 3 of your despatch, No. 500,* you state that "there is in this Colony no local allowance which is payable to officers who do not receive Exchange Compensation; and that Mr. Xavier is not eligible to come under the Sterling Salary Scheme because he is not
entitled to Exchange Compensation." This latter principle is re-stated in general terms in paragraph 3 of your despatch, No. 512.†
you
4. In his despatch, No. 426, of the 19th December, 1901, Mr. Chamberlain informed that it was his desire that the same principles might, as far as possible, be adopted in Hong Kong " in regard to the increased allowances to existing officers, and the preparation of a sterling scheme for future appointments," as had already been laid down in the case of the Straits Settlements.
5. When the privilege of Exchange Compensation on the whole of their salaries was granted to officers of the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Services who were domiciled in Europe, it was accompanied by the grant of a local non-pensionable addition of 25 per cent. to the salaries of those officers in the higher ranks of these services who were not entitled to Exchange Compensation. In this connexion I refer
may you to paragraph 10 of Mr. Chamberlain's despatch to Sir F. Swettenham, No. 243, of the 2nd August, 1901,** a copy of which was enclosed in his despatch of 15th August, 1901.§
It was not intended, when the privilege of Exchange Compensation on the full salary was granted to the Hong Kong Government Service, that the corresponding grant of this 25 per cent. addition should be refused to that class of officers to whom it had been granted in the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States.
6. The allowance should, therefore, be given to all officers whose posts are included in the Sterling Scheme, but who, having been appointed before August, 1901, do not elect to come under the Scheme, and who are not entitled to receive Exchange Compensation, not being domiciled in Europe. The allowance should be paid, with arrears, from the date when other officers began to receive Exchange Compensation on the whole, instead of half of their salaries.
7. I enclose, for your information and guidance, copies of further corre- spondence with Sir F. Swettenham, relative to the grant of this allowance.
8. In the same way, it was not intended to make any such distinction in regard to the grant of Sterling Salaries as is contemplated in paragraph 3 of your despatch, No. 512,† between officers of the Hong Kong Service who are, and those who are not, entitled to Exchange Compensation. According to the principle laid down in the case of the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States, the salaries of all non-clerical posts which exceeded $1,200 a year were to be included in the Sterling Scheme; and officers appointed after the beginning of August, 1901, to any such posts came under the Sterling Scheme regardless of the question whether or not they would have been entitled, under ne existing rules, in virtue of domicile or ir other respects, to Exchange Compensation.
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