CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917 — Page 343

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Mr: Collins,

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REG 10 JAN 18

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In order to fill the vacancy for an Assistant Auditor in Hong Kong which was caused by the death of Mr. G. Cormack in August last I recommend the selection of Mr: R.F, Brayn, at present one of the Senior Assistant Auditors on the local audit establishment of Nigeria, who has previously served (from April 1906 to June 1912) as one of the Assistant Auditors in Hong Kong. Mr: Brayn is at present in this country on extended leave, being at present under medical treatment, but the Medical Adviser hinks that he will be fit to go to Hong Kong within two months of the present time.

When previously serving as Assistant

Auditor in Hong Kong Mr: Brayn's salary (from the

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10th August 1910) was $420 rising by £10 triennially

the increments being subsequently altered to £15 annually) to £540, and, had he remained in that Colony, instead of being transferred, for official convenience, first to Nyasaland and then to Nigeria,

is salary would now have been (as from the 10th August 1917) £525, and it seems to me to be only right that, in the event of his re-transfer to Hong Kong, he should be permitted to resume his proper relative position on the local audit establishment of that Colony, with the accrued salary at the rate of £525 per annum, especially as this is the rate of salary which Mr: Dallin, the other Assistant Auditor in Hong Kong, who is junior to Mr: Brayn on the

establishment of the Colonial Audit Department,

is now receiving.

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