Paragraph 9 of Mr. Chamberlain's Despatch No. 171 of the 13th June, 1902, states that the reason for this reduction in the salaries attached to Cadet Appointments is to be found in the fact that the introduction of the new scheme afforded a favourable opportunity for approximating the Hongkong salaries to those paid in the Straits Settlements, which were generally lower than those paid in this Colony.
Apart from the question of the considerably greater cost of living in Hongkong, a reference to the comparative table of appointments published on page 83 of the Hongkong Civil Service List for 1907 will show that, whatever may have been the case in 1902, the Sterling Salaries paid in this Colony at the present time are on the whole considerably less than those paid in Singapore. In Hongkong, the maximum salary obtainable by a Cadet is £1,000 per annum, and there are four posts only out of a total of twenty posts carrying salaries of £800 rising to this figure.
In the Straits Settlements, there are fourteen posts out of a total of forty-seven with salaries ranging from £780 to £1,500 per annum, including four appointments with a salary of £1,200 per annum. There are further ten posts ranging between £660 and £780 per annum and nine posts...
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696 9 paragraph of Mr. Chamberlain's Despatch No. 171 of the
13th. June, 1902, that the reason for this reduction in the
salaries attached to Cadet Appointments, is to be found in
the fact that the introduction of the new scheme afforded
a favourable opportunity for approximating the Hongkong
salaries to those paid in the Straits Settlements, which
were generally lower than those paid in this Colony.
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Apart from the question of the
considerably greater cost of living in Hongkong, a reference
to the comparative table of appointments published on page
83 of the Hongkong Civil Service List for 1907 will show
that, whatever may have been the case in 1902, the Sterling
Salaries paid in this Colony at the present time are on
the whole considerably less than those paid in Singapore.
In Hongkong the maximum salary obtainable by a Cadet is
£1,000 per annum and there are four posts only out of a
total of twenty posts carrying salaries of £800 rising to
this figure. In the Straits Settlements there are fourteen
posts out of a total of forty-seven with salaries ranging
from £780 to £1,500 per annum, including four appointments
with a salary of £1,200 per annum. There are further ten
posts ranging between £660 and £780 per annum and nine
posts
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