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the New Territories than in Hongkong,
9. Your Petitioners also desire to point out that two of
them have already reached their maximum pay, and have no further
prospect of improving their position, but must remain at their
present rate of pay until they reach the age of 55 and retire on
a pension based on that rate: such a state of affairs is naturally
very disheartening to men in the prime of life and full of energy
and enterprise,
10. Your Petitioners also consider themselves to have been
very unfairly treated in comparison with the Police, for the
following reasons.
11.
All your Petitioners transferred from the Police Force
to the District Office in the hope of bettering their condition,
and to their great disappointment they find themselves in a much
less favourable position.
12. If your Petitioners had remained in the Police Force
they would how be Sub-Inspectors drawing from £320 to 2360, with
an early prospect of rising to the post of Inspector (£2400 to
£450) and an ultimate chance of becoming Chief Inspector at £600.
In 1913 your Petitioners' pay (£250) was almost equivalent to that of a First Class Police Inspector (£240 to £260) but the
latter are now 2130 ahead of your Petitioners.
13. The Police have also many further privileges, for
instance free fuel, light, uniform and furniture and retirement
on full pension at 45.
14.
Your Petitioners also understand that the salaries of
the First Class Overseers P. W. D. and the First Class Sanitary Inspectors have all been fixed at £320 to £360, that is £40 ahead of your Petitioners, although those officers were previously on
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