CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2] — Page 41

No.

sir,

ong Kong.

CO

3623

ECD

of 4 FEB

Government House

5th. January, 1911.

37

Em02/10

With reference to your predecessTM

@-or's Despatch No. 164 of the 16th. of June, I have the

honour to inform you that I have discussed the question of

the re-adjustment of the sterling salaries of the appoint-

-ments held by Officers originally appointed as Cadets

with Mr. R. B. Stubbs who has recently visited the Colony

+

for the purpose.

2.

Mr. Stubbs informed me that in the

similar scheme agreed upon with Sir John Anderson for the

Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States, in-

-creases of salary took the form of duty pay to be drawn in

the Colony by the Officers actually performing the duties

of the posts concerned. The principle is in my opinion

sound. It entails no increase in pensionable salary and by

increasing

RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,

20.

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