CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10] — Page 166

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First Class Inspectors: it is submitted that promotion should be

automatic in such cases, in order to give the Second Class

Inspectors an incentive to improve their qualifications at the

earliest possible moment.

14.

In past years your petitioners have always ranked on an

equal footing with Inspectors of Police in the matter of salary, and they learn with great surprise that the latter have just received a very considerable increase in pay, which far exceede the new scale for the Sanitary Inspectors as shown in the

following table:-

New

Scale

Sanitary

Chief or Senior Inspectors

2400 to £480

Police

£500 to £600

First Class

£320 to £360

£400 to £450

Second class

or

2220 to £300

2320 to 2360.

Sub-inspector

15. Your Petitioners cannot understand on what grounds this sudden discrimination has been made, as already pointed out the qualifications of a Sanitary Inspector entail a high degree of education, and (for the first class posts) technical training and knowledge of Chinese: the work is similar in many respects to that of Inspectors of Police and if the Police are exposed to risks of violence, your Petitioners are exposed to the more insidious risks of succumbing to fatal infections or contagious diseases in the course of their ordinary duties.

16.

Further the Police have many more privileges than your Petitioners, in particular they have much better prospects of promotion, and can attain after ten years service to a salary

£450

of 2560 with light and fuel, which is better than the maximum obtainable by a First Class Inspector after many years