CO129-407 - Public Offices & Others - 1913 — Page 418

C.A. 354.

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The Appointment of an Assistant Mistress to the 3089

Education Department of Hong Kong.

118 APR 13

1. The Secretary of State for the Colonies requires an Assistant Mistress for the Education Department, Hong Kong.

2. Candidates should be not less than 23 nor more than 35 years of age. They should be certificated teachers, and should be capable of teaching English subjects, including elementary Mathematics, up to the standard of the Oxford Senior Local Examination. It is desirable that candidates should be good at languages and have a knowledge of music and drawing.

3. The engagement, in the first instance, will be for three years, and if at the end of that time her service has been satisfactory, the Assistant Mistress will be placed, if mutually agreed, on the pensionable establishment of the Colony.

4. A salary at the rate of 2001, for each of the three years of the engagement will be paid to the Assistant Mistress, and subject to the permission of the Director of Education she may undertake private tuition. Half salary will be paid from the date of embarkation from England and full salary from the date of arrival in the Colony. If the Assistant Mistress be placed upon the pensionable establishment her salary would be at the rate of 2207. per annum.

The currency of Hong Kong is based on the silver dollar. For purposes of payments in the Colony salaries fixed in sterling are converted into dollars as regards 80 per cent. at the rate of 14. 9d. to the dollar and as regards 20 per cent. at a rate fixed by the Government, and based upon the average exchange value of the dollar

uring the month ending on the 15th of the month for which salary is to be paid.

5. The candidate selected will be required to be examined by the Medical Adviser to the Colonial Office, and if the result is satisfactory she will be provided with a free second-class passage to the Colony. She will be required to sign an agreement to serve the Government of the Colony for three years from the date of her arrival there, and should she leave the service before the end of that period for any reason other than mental or physical infirmity, she would be liable to be called upon to repay the cost of her passage. A free passage home will be provided at the end of the three years' period if the appointment is then terminated.

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6. Subject to the necessities of the service, leave of absence on half salary may be granted to members of the permanent Government Service after a period of four and a half years' resident service, without any special grounds. It may be given before the expiration of that period in cases of serious indisposition or of urgent private affairs. In the absence of special grounds, the leave in such case must not exceed one-sixth of the officer's resident service; on special grounds it may exceed that period by six months. The Governor will not in any case grant leave on for a period of more than nine months at a time, but that nerici

extended by the Secretary of State on the ground of ill-health or of urgent private affairs or for such other reasons as may appear to him to be sufficient. In exceptional cases extensions of leave without pay may be granted. At the request of any officer who may be eligible for the grant of any period of leave on half salary, the Governor may commute the whole or any portion of such leave into one-half the period of leave with full salary, provided that the total period of commuted and uncommuted leave, together with any period of vacation leave that may be granted, does not exceed ten months at a time. No officer can claim as a right to commute his leave in this manner, the decision whether commutation can or cannot be allowed being wholly within the discretion of the Governor, Officers attached to au educational institution enjoy when in the Colony the ordinary vacations of the institution to which they are attached. When taking long leave outside the Colony they may be allowed to draw full pay during the first three months of their leave unless a school vacation has immediately preceded the grant of leave, in which case full pay may be drawn during two months only. The remainder of the leave in either case is on half salary, and half pay only can be drawn during any school vacation falling within the period of an extension of leave.

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