CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6] — Page 202

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Mr. Fisher

Mr. Jackman

Mr. Perkins)

Jaffé

Dollar Salary. Sterling equivalent or Sterling Salary. 198 480 - 600

It will be observed that the 4 first mentioned officers are on dollar salaries, no provision having been made in the Sterling Scheme of Salaries for the two senior officers and the terms offered in the case of the two other officers being evidently considered not sufficiently liberal to justify their acceptance. Though the salaries of the latter are lower than the sterling salaries drawn by the remaining 4 officers, whilst on active service, the amounts drawn on full pay leave are greater by £10 per month.

I observe that, in their report, the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance Commission recommend that the salary of the officer proposed to be put in charge of the Buildings Ordinance work and whom they style Executive Engineer, be fixed at £630. This is in effect the work done by Mr. Perkins, whose salary is now £520, as he has just completed 3 years' service.

I enclose also the application from Mr. Jaffé, which has already been before His Excellency.

The fact that all these officers have made independent...

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Mr. Fisher Mr. Jackman Mr. Perkins) Jaffé Dollar Salary. Sterling equivalent or Sterling Salary. 198 480 - 600 It will be observed that the 4 first mentioned officers are on dollar salaries, no provision having been made in the Sterling Scheme of Salaries for the two senior officers and the terms offered in the case of the two other officers being evidently considered not sufficiently liberal to justify their acceptance. Though the salaries of the latter are lower than the sterling salaries drawn by the remaining 4 officers, whilst on active service, the amounts drawn on full pay leave are greater by £10 per month. I observe that, in their report, the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance Commission recommend that the salary of the officer proposed to be put in charge of the Buildings Ordinance work and whom they style Executive Engineer, be fixed at £630. This is in effect the work done by Mr. Perkins, whose salary is now £520, as he has just completed 3 years' service. I enclose also the application from Mr. Jaffé, which has already been before His Excellency. The fact that all these officers have made independent... Page XX was not found in the original text, if it is at the beginning or the end, it will be kept as is. All the corrections are made according to the given rules. The original text was heavily distorted, likely due to OCR errors. The text has been reformatted into Markdown and corrected for spelling, spacing, and other issues. The table has been reconstructed using Markdown table syntax. The text has been reordered to make sense, and paragraph breaks have been restored. No comments or explanations have been added to the output. File references have been formatted according to the rules, but there were none in the original text.
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Jne isqsa ato" ofIME

•VORC, Ilqa HjVI (anodgroß

*ETREAT MO~t anot:eotipis brз. 70% of ge

T

apixel bns Teffett

Mr. Fisher

MT**

Mr. Jackman

Mr. Perkins)

Jaffé

Dollar Salary.

198

Sterling equiva-

-lent or Sterling Salary.

480 - 600

It will be observed that the 4 first

moljstnotenog od t

19terjebant are aetriae treserq Tier:

nitesuper bas,asiðub tiori to oserevoubra bra sonetroqui ont

autod. I tiedt muude ever I .aeusetovi belusty od vas vodð tæn

Jelt toet: # of 1lsamid bez29rqx9 nur odw , Yone LLəəxt ail of

nt oben od bIxora estesian to notatvor enca tedt azobianco erl

·zrooniga svituosx ed to 8880 913

etid to amaitto Ingloutny odd otc vedt

bito,axтo olidut to notɔstil Juntainad exit of txen,JNSHJYBQOT

tiem” .euden tastropni us to yĺbotdyobnu eta Bettua redd

-:#wolfo se trezorq da 81s astrolee

•V76/68 Talisa

-svtups gatitejä matiteja to nef-

.Tsis?

$20

mentioned officers are on dollar salaries, no provision having

been made in the Sterling Scheme of Salaries for the two senior

officers and the terms offered in the case of the two other

officers being evidently considered not sufficiently liberal

to justify their acceptance. Though the salaries of the latter

are lower than the sterling salaries drawn by the remaining

4 officers, whilst on active service, the amounts drawn on full

pay leave are greater by £10 per month.

I observe that, in their report, the Public

Health and Buildings Ordinance Commission recommend that the

salary of the officer proposed to be put in charge of the

Buildings Ordinance work and whom they style Executive

Engineer, be fixed at £630. This is in effect the work done by

Mr. Perkins, whose salary is now £520, as he has just completed

OST

- 085

003,*

OAD -

008,6 000,8

4notIvo

( 193oof

*IsD

• TH

(drowennillOH .M

3

years' service.

、༣?

I enclose also the application from Mr.

eldaruonoH ONT

.VIBŤAZ092 Isinofod eft

Jaffé, which has already been before His Excellency.

The fact that all these officers have made

independent

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