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ducation Department,

HONGKONG.

16th 'pril, 1924.

Enehomme A.

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sir,

I have the honour to request your favourable consideration

of the following application for adjustment of my salary.

I was appointed to the Fongkong service as an ex-service

officer under the Reconstruction Scheme of Selection. In the

prospectus issued by the Civil Service Commissioners in

connection with this Scheme the following sentence appears:

"Candidates who under this scheme enter the service

at an age above the normal maximum of 24 years

will be allowedone increment of salary for each

year of their age above 24 at the date of their

qualifying examination,"

From the promise contained in this clause I conclude that

as my age was two years and more in excess of the normal.

maximum of 24 at the date of my examination (April 1919),

I should be entitled to two annual increments of salary as

from the date of embarkation. This is, I take it, the strict

minimum interpretation of the clause. It has been interpreted

somewhat more generously by the Government of the F.1.5.88

will be seen from paragraph 6 of the attached copy of the

letter sent by that Government to all ex-service Cadets in

that service, If my oase were dealt with in the same way as

the Mr Coulson who is taken as an example in paragraph 6 of

this letter, the result would be that my salary and seniority

would be determined as if I had joined the service on 22nd

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