CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10] — Page 409

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Chief Clerk Collec Office should be "proze" appointments ago

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RECO

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(Res 9 OCT 03)

Hongkong, 3rd. September, 1903.

Salorige proposed in

for Cashier to Treas? ($

2400

19218 Ma

- $30 ₤240 -₤300 by 20 trieumally

Salary in Sterling Schemi for

in Post office

Lin

Supervisors one

of whom is

now "Superintendent of Registration Parcels Branch of the other

"Superintendent of mails'

is £230-£280 by 25 the holders bring allowed to draw

6255

on

1 Jan 1904.

The rest are already

the Scheme

alau

pu92/11

alence

jt

24986

Sir,

19218

I have the honour to acknowledge the re-

ceipt of your Despatch No. 241 of the 25th. of June and to

inform you in reply as follows:-

2.

The Cashier of the Treasury is the Princi-

pal Accounting Officer in the Colony. His duties being exclusive

-ly accounting it is considered that the post is not distinctive

-ly clerical in character. Vacancies in the post have been

filled in the past by the selection from the Government Service

of a Clerk who has shewn special aptitude and capacity in

accounting.

3.

the First

The duties of Accountant in the Post

Office are no more technical in character than those performed

by Clerks in other Departments through whose hands the monies

received and disbursed by the Departments pass e.g.,

Clerk and Accountant in the Police Department, the 3rd. Clerk

in the Harbour Office and the Correspondence Clerk in the

Sanitary Department. The post has hitherto been regarded as

an ordinary clerical post to be filled by the selection of a

qualified clerk.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,

The same remark applies to the post of

Superintendent

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