CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11] — Page 176

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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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