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Class III on the new basis that is at the same rate as the

III,

salary of the Assistant Land Officer for the New Territories

who is now called Assistant District Officer.

I propose further that a new

Class IV be formed, the scale of salary in which should be

£420

£500 by £40 triennially, and that on the next vacancy

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the Second Assistant Registrar-General should be placed in

this class.

Finally I propose that the

District Officer should be subject to a deduction of

$1,080 per annum, if married, and of $600 per annum,if un-

-married for rent of the fee quarters which he enjoys

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at Taipo,

and that in the occurrence of the next vacancy

the Assistant District Officer at Taipo should be subject

to a deduction of $720 per annum, if married, and of $430

if unmarried, for the

per annum,

enjoys.

quarters which he

I do not recommend that the present incumbent of

the post should pay this rent as he gains but little by

the re-adjustment of his salary on a sterling basis.

I have given this matter my very

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earnest attention, and I submit these proposals to Your

Lordship in the conviction that they are greatly to the

benefit of the Public Service, and I trust therefore

that