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Sir,

In paragraph 3 (11) of my Despatch No. 363

dated 7th. October, 1904, forwarding the Estimates for the current

year, I informed you that the scheme for increasing the efficiency

of the Post Office, recommended in Mr. May's Despatch No. 264

dated 20th. June, 1904, to which conditional approval was given

in your telegram of the 27th. July, required considerable recast-

ing and that it had therefore not been thought desirable to make

provision for it in the Estimates for 1905.

2.

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As you will see from the Estimates for the

various years since 1902 the general classification scheme for the

Subordinate Civil Service of Hongkong, approved in Mr. Chamber-

lain's Despatch No. 244 dated the 19th, July, 1901, has only been

partially adopted in the Post Office. There are for instance at

the present time 3 clerks on salaries of $840 to $1,080 per annum

4 on salaries of $780 to $1,080 per annum, and 15 on salaries of

$720 to $1,080, though none of these scales find any place in the

the schere which followed what I hold to be correct principle of not

having overlapping salaries in the different classes. The pro-

posals submitted in the Despatch of the 20th. June, 1904, while

they did not reduce the number of clerks outside the recognised

classes for salary, departed still further from the approved clas-

sification by making increments annual instead of biennial.

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It seems to me that a general classification

scheme to govern the salaries of all appointments in the Subordi-

HE RIGHT HONOURABLE

ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.B.,

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