CO129-380 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [9-10] — Page 255

No. 7884/09

Enclosure 2.

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Colonial Secretary's Office

Hong Kong 18th September 1911.

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Sir

RECE Rra£30 OCT 1!

I am directed to inform you that the request made in your two letters

of the 19th ultimo cannot be granted.

2. The Secretary of State in reply to a recommendation that you should be appointed Deputy Superintendent of Police on the dollar salary

of a 2nd class appointment wrote:-

"I regret that I could not in any case bave agreed to the proposed

salary.

An officer who has not accepted the sterling scheme

is entitled to have the salary of any appointment to which he may be promoted fixed in dollars, but that does not imply that it is necessary to create a new salary stated in dollars for a post unless it is one that was not in existence when the sterling salary was framed. This is not the case in the present instance. The post of Deputy Superintendent of Police was in existence before the sterling scheme was framed and the salary then attached to it, $3,600 rising to $4,200 by triennial increments of $300, is that which must be drawn by any officer in

receipt of a dollar salary, who is appointed to it. If, therefore, I had been able to approve the appointment of Mr Hallifax to be Deputy

Superintendent of Police, it would have been on the condition that ne

would either receive salary at this rate in dollars or woula exercise

the option of accepting the new scale of sterling salaries."

3. His Excellency the Governor is not prepared to address the

Secretary of State further in connection with your claims to the appoint-

ment of Deputy Superintendent of Police and in view of the despatch quoted

above it is clear that unless you accepted a sterling salary you could in

no way benefit even if it were decided to appoint you.

4. If on the contrary you are ready to accept such salary, you can

immediately draw the second class sterling pay fixed for the District

Officer, fai Po. Your present salary is the equivalent of £630 per

annum; the sterling salary open to you as District Officer, Tai Po is