CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12] — Page 182

>

ONFIDENTIAL.

Hongkong.

Sir,

11653

Wre

C.O.

34309

A 25 Ser 05

Government House,

179

Hongkong, 25th. August, 1905.

Referring to the second paragraph

of your Confidential Despatch of the 20th. April last, in

which you requested an approximate estimate of the total

annual cost of introducing the Grading Scheme of salaries

throughout the Hongkong Clerical Service, I have the honour

to forward for your consideration the enclosed tables A,

B, C, and D, which show respectively:-

A.

- The Classification and Grading Schemes

B.

A comparison of former and revised salaries in Departments in which the introduction of the new scheme has been approved.

aware,

C.

D.

- A comparison between present and proposed

salaries in the remaining Departments.

- The principles upon which the conversion of

salaries into the new scale has been made.

2.

The Grading Scheme, as you are

has already been introduced in the Harbour Office

and is to be adopted in the Post Office on the 1st. January

alse

1906. It has been adopted in the Magistracy, where I recent

-ly took advantage of several simultaneous changes in the

E RIGHT HONOURABLE

ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,

80.

800.

&c.

Staff