CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12] — Page 311

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For this audit

who makes an annual tour to Tei-Hai-Wei.

the Auditor receives a salary of £86. 5., which we most humbly submit should more correctly be considered as a reimbursement to the Colony of Hong Kong for the services

of the officer detached for this work. This salary the Auditor, Hugh Richard Phelips, would be prepared to waive

any right to if his emoluments were raised to the

equivalent of other heads of 2nd class departments, that is a maximum of £1,200 per annum as proposed by the

Director of Colonial Audit. In connection with this

matter we humbly draw your attention to the fact that

in past years Engineers of the Public Works Department

have been lent to the Wei-Hai-Wei Government on similar

conditions, a cadet officer has recently been lent for

service under the New Zealand Government and in 1905 a

cadet officer was lent as the Transvaal Emigration Agent

at Ching Wang Tao.

14. Further we humbly bring to your notice the fact that

the Auditor, or one of his staif, has to visit the various

British Postal Agencies in China, for which work neither

the Auditor or the Government of Hong Kong receives any

remuneration; and the officer who undertakes these visits

is often considerably out of pocket as the subsistence

allowance is insuficient to meet the necessary expenses

which have so greatly increased in recent years.

15. We humbly bring to your notice the inadequacy of the

salaries provided for the two Assistant Auditors.

We beg to point out that the Assistant Auditors are

no longer young men like the majority of their colleagues

serving in other Colonies and Protectorates. They are

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