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NOTES TO ACCOMPANY STERLING SALARY SCHEME.
1.---Officers on dollar salaries in Hongkong will be allowed to join the Sterling Scheme on trusfer to Straits or
Malay States.
2.-Continued service on Maximum of a class to count practically towards increment in ease of promotion to higher class.
3.--Dollar officers acting in a Sterling post will draw half their own pay and balf pay of that post in dollars at present rates,
4.---Sterling officers will draw half their own pay and half the Sterling pay of the acting appointment. 5.-Acting officers draw half the initial pay of posts but not so as to suffer loss on that account.
6.—-Officers are allowed & mouths after publication, to join the scheme. If they elect to stay on a dollar salary they must abide by such at present rates during the rest of their service in Hongkong, and so far as they are concerned the salaries of all appointments to which they are promoted will continue to be fixed in dollars.
7.-Ofiers can join the Sterling scheme at the stage they would have reached if increments had been fixed at the dates of
their respective appolarments to their present posts.
8.-Ao example of the effect ou contribution to the Widows aud Orphans' Fund is as follows; -
Officers on $1,200 per annum would pay to Widows and Orphans' Fund $48 per amuum.
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Mr.
At 1/8 this £1 per
Mr. Johnson 41
Officers on £180 (equivalent of above at 3-) would have to pay £7.4.0 per annum-a difference of £3.48. Others would be affected proportionately. The 4% ou Sterling salary would be 4% of the exact amount of dollars paid as full sulary.
9.-Officers on dollar salaries who entered the service before 1st July, 1897, get leave pay at 4- and pension at 3.8.
Officers who entered thereafter get 3/- for both.
10. The system of rate of oxchange for payment of Sterling salaries is not yet fixed by the Secretary of State.
At pre- seut it is the average from 1st July, two years before, to 30th June of the year before. It is suggested that the mouthly rato be taken as in the case of Exchange Compensation.
11.---Officers who are allowed the privilege of occupying Government quarters bave no personal claim to such quarters"
nor will they be allowed after their next promotion or on acceptance of Sterling salary to count the value of ench quarters for pension purposes. No officer appointed on an original Sterling salary will be allowed to count the value of free quarters for ponsion purposes. 12.-Offloors at present serving under agreements have the option ofhing under the Sterling Scheme and will be required
to accept Sterling salaries on re-engagement.
DEC 15 1
Mr. Antrobus.
Mr. Cox.
Mr. Lucas,
Mr. Graham.
Sir M. Ommanney.
Earl of Onslow.
Mr. Chamberlain.
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41670002 HONG KONG
Sir.
23/Oct 02.
I have the hon. to ack.the receipt of
your Sir W.J. Gascoigne's desp. No.588 of t
uit.jon the subject of the scheme of ste
4th ult.
ling salaries for Hong Kong, and to inform
you that I concur in the proposal that Dr.
Thomson and his successors should continue
draw a House Allowance of 3 720 a vear,unt:
quarters near the Gaol are provided. I tru
that the provision of quarters will not be
delayed so long as Sir W.J.Gascoigne appeas
to anticipate.
2. 1 also agree that the qual
ters in the Govt. Civil Hospital should be V
regarded as available for such officers as
may be ass,
ssigned to purely Hospital work.
3. In selecting a new Supt. for
I am
the Botanical and Afforestation Dept.
adopting the rates which you suggest in your desp. No. 4!! of the 12 ult.
4.S
1t. L
approve the rates which you ard
proposed for the sanitary appts..subject
an abatement of £32 a year in the case of
No
to
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