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B.
may be
for,
in addition ve his salary of £300 per annum
given seniority over myself in the near future,
should this officer apply for such buniority to be
granted him, he would be able to quote the precedent
established in the lat. part of the lat. paragraph of
Enclosure B.
(5) should this precedent be uphold the position of on
Assistent Engineer will be both undertain and precarious.
such an officer will never know when he may be made --
junior in seniority to another who, though junior in
service may have baɛn granted omoluments in excess of hi.
OWEL.
A A A P
(*) If "Seniority is determined by the date of an
officer's appointment to the particular grade in which he
is carving" it would appear that Mr. Duncan who now
becomes an Assistant Engineer on the paraunant staff may
not have seniority of day who are already let. Grade
Assistant Engineer.
With regard to the tacond part of the first paragraph of
Enclosure B; -
It is ther
(1) It would appear that No.39 of the General Orduri or
the Hongkong doverment has beun overlooked.
stated that "The claim of candidates for promotion will
be considered in order of their seniority'.
(2) Engineers who have been granted promotion to a higher rank during the past seven years hayo obtained
their promotion in order of their seniority.
(3) when it was proposed in 1913 that Mr. Goldsmith,
Assistant Engineur, be promoted to a higher rank though junior in service to Mr. Bidon (who was at that time the] senior of the Asistant Engineers), I am informed that
Ir. Biden was not super-edud.
(4) It would appear therefore that Leniority has b given a "prior claim to promotion to a higher fank".
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