CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12] — Page 305

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Memorial from the Auditor and Assistant Auditors of the Colonial Audit Department at present stationed at Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.

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We the undersigned members of the Colonial Audit Department at present stationed in Hong Kong,most humbly and respectfully beg to bring to your notice the question of the amoluments which have been provided for the Auditor and Assistant Auditors under the revised salary scheme of 1920, viz. for the Auditor £900 by 225 to 21000 per annum and the Assistant Auditors £620 by 420 to £800 per annum.

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We would most respectiully draw your attention to the

correspondence which took place between the Secretary of

State and the Governor of Hongkong in the years 1888 and

1889 commencing with the Secretary of State's Circular

Despatch of the 18th September 1888 and the subsequent

correspondence which ultimately led to the appointment

of the Local Auditor and the transfer of the responsi-

bility of the Audit to the Comptroller and Auditor General

3.

We beg to submit that at the time of the appointment

of the present Auditor Hugh Richard Phelips, on the 1st

November 1904, he was holding the appointment of Local

Auditor to the East Africa Protectorate (now Kenya Colony)

where his position was regarded as equal to that of a

first class officer, and on appointment to the Local

Auditorship of Hongkong presumably ranked as an ollicer

in Class II (vide Hongkong Civil Service List for 1910

page 131 and previous Civil Service Lists). On appoint-

ment it was generally understood that the emoluments paid

to the Local Auditor were considerably less on account

of the fact that part of the time of the Local Auditor