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Sir F.D.Lugard

Mr.

Mr.

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Aug 1907

I have the honour to ack the receipt

of Hr May's confidential despatch of

June 27th in which he advocates a gen-

eral increase to the sterling salaries

of officers of the Cadet Service in Hong

Kong on the ground that they compare

unfavourably with those drawn by officers

who are in receipt af dollar salaries

with double exchange compensatien.

2

Mr. Just.

Mr. Antrobus.

Mr. Cox.

XMr. Lucas.

Sir F. Hopwood.

21

1. The 21.0

The Earl of Elgin.

.The sterling

salaries were intended primarily for offie-

cers who entered the service after the

23 introduction of the sterling scheme,

124. the object of the new system being to

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avoid as far as possible the disadvant-

ages incident to a fluctuating dollar.

It was not intended that they should

necessarily be equal to the dollar sal-

aries with double exchange compensation,

drawn by officers already in the service,

and any comparison with those salaries

be left out of account, the only

bring question to be considered whether the

salaries paid afford adequate remuneration

for the duties performed. Taking into

consideration the general scale of sal-