CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917 — Page 149

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Addreas reply to "The Secretary, Generai FORT Cuce,

quoting Registered No.

64.000/16

15399

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GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON.E.C.1 13 March 1917.

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REG 24 MAR 17

Sir.

I am directed by the Postmaster General to advert to var letter of the 10th of January last, No. 1952/17, and to the MO reply from this Office of the 14th of February concerning the Fool Staff of the British Post Office Agencies in China.

Theoriginal proposal. which has been accepted, was that the Staff which was taken over with the Agencies, and which accordingly was formerly on the Hong Kong establishment, should be regarded as still being members of that establishment. This loft unsettled the question of the status of the staff appointed since the transfer of tho Agencies.

With the exception of the Postmaster and the Assistant Postmastor of the British Post Office at Shanghai. who are Imperial Civil Servants. the Staff appointed at the Agencies since the transfer have been onployed in similar conditions as regards rates of pay etc. to the staff which was transferred. In order to avoid the inconvenienco which would arise through

part of the staff being on the Hong Kong establishment and part on the Imperial establishment with. among other things, liability to pay Imperial Income Tax. it has boon sugmsted to

Postmaster General of Hong Kong that the proposal should

apply equally to staff appointed locally since the transfor

or which may be so appointed in the future. The Postmaster

General of Hong Kong accents this suggestion.

the

Under Secretary of State.

COLONIAL OFFICE.

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