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The explanation of the lower rental (£16) paid
by the officer in charge of the Disinfecting Station in Hongkong is that this officer was allowed by Sir F. Lugard, on the recommend -ation of the Head of the Department, to pay half the usual rental (£32) in consideration of the fact that he has night duties to perform. But the Inspector in charge of the Disinfecting Station at Kowloon has in fact as much night duty as has the officer in Hong- -kong.
In this Department 2 Inspectors in charge of
the Slaughter Houses in Hongkong and Kowloon respectively have free quarters. I cannot see any more reason for bringing those 2 appointments within the exception to the principle under which rentals for Government quarters are paid than there is for in- -cluding the appointments above referred to, Five Inspectors are in receipt of house allowances at the rate of 830 a month each. It is desirable to get these men into Government quarters for the reason indicated in (e) below.
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As regards the Public Works Department, 1 Overseer in charge of the West Point Filter Beds and Pumping Station occupies free of rent the quarters erected there for the officer in charge, because his salary is £250 per annum with free quarters and he found it more advantageous to remain on his old salary than to accept the new scale with maximum of £270 subject to a deduction of £32 per annum.
Two Overseers are in charge of the Filter Beds and Pumping Stations in Victoria (Bowen and Garden Roads). They pay $200 and £20 respectively for their quarters. The explanation of the low rentals is that the quarters are very small. A fourth Overseer occupies the quarters at the Water Works Stores Depot and Repair-shop in Kowloon and pays £30 a year in rent. The rate seems to have been fixed in ignorance of the authorised rate of £32
introduced with the Sterling Salary Scheme. These appointments should in my opinion all be brought within the exception referred
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