CO129-380 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [9-10] — Page 202

No 341.

HONGKONG,

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Reat 25 OCT

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

28th. September, 1911.

Gov. 3678.

sir,

In your Despatch No. 75 of the 9th. March, 1911, you directed me to arrange for the application of

the system of Duty Pay to all departments of the Hongkong

Service which are ordinarily recruited from England, so that it might be applied as occasion offers. In order that I may be in

a position to recommend to you a scale of pensionable salary

plus Duty Pay when any appointment falls vacant or is newly created it is clearly necessary that a properly thought-out scheme graduated and adapted for every post, should in the first instance be prepared, and I have spent considerable time and thought in endeavouring to elaborate such a scheme. These efforts have brought into prominence a number of difficulties,

and I shall be glad to receive your instructions regarding them.

In the case of Cadets, and also of the

Public Works Department, it had been decided after most careful consideration, that a case had been made out for an increase in salaries. You approved of the proposal that this increase should take the form of a Duty Pay non-pensionable and drawn only while an officer is actually performing the duties of his office. It was, therefore, an easy matter to assign such amount as the circumstances of the case appeared to demand, and since the sun assigned did not decrease the pensionable emolu- -ments, and was in the nature of an unconditional addition to

salary

2.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P..

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