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Friday, March 2, 1973
CHINESE VERSION OF REPORT ON TEACHERS' PAY
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The Chinese language version of the report on salary scales for
Certificated Masters was published today and copies will be distributed
to all government primary and secondary schools and the subsidised school
councils. They will also be on sale at the Government Publications Centre
at the Star Ferry Concourse.
When the report was tabled in Legislative Council last month,
the Colonial Secretary, Sir Hugh Norman-Walker, said that the government
would welcome comments from civil service associations and other interested
persons, or groups of persons.
He added that any comments received before March 14 would be
carefully considered before a decision is taken on the recommendations
contained in the report.
A government spokesman said today that it was hoped the appearance
of the Chinese version would help to clarify certain misconceptions with
regard to the position of the Working Group responsible for the study.
He stressed that the group was a completely independent review
body appointed, only after the Senior Civil Service Council had failed
to reach agreement on scales for Certificated Masters.
Its members had previously served on the larger Salaries Commission,
which met in 1971 to consider salaries in the middle ranks of the public service.
The spokesman recalled, that the question of teachers' pay
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from the
had been expressly excluded at the request of the Staff Side
Commission's work, as the matter was then still under negotiation by the
Senior Civil Service Council.
The Council