CO129-505-1 Cadet Officers appointed under reconstruction scheme- salaries 29-4-1927 - 15-8-1927 — Page 4

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In paragraph 6. of

Go28659/24 Hong Kong the late Governor justified

the existence of different schemes in Hong

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Kong and Malaya on the ground that the conditions

of the two Services were entirely different.

reconsideration, however, I do not now feel

so certain that this is the case as regards

salaries (leaving the question of seniority

aside for the moment). In Malaya, as in Hong

Kong, substantive increments are continuous

up to the top of the time scale. The only

difference arising out of the division of the

Malayan Service into Classes is that an officer

acting in an appointment in a Class superior

to the officer's substantive Class, draws

acting pay.

This in itself does not seem

to necessitate

to be sufficient justifierbiam for the

existence of different schemes as to substantive

salary; and if it is the fact that the adoption

of the Malayan scheme in Hong Kong would remove

the dissatisfaction which at present prevails

there, I suggest that its adoption should be

approved.

It will be seen that, apart from the case

of Mr. Nihill, who would move from No.4 to No.1,

the adoption of the Malayan scheme would not

involve readjustment of seniority between the

Hong Kong Reconstruction Cadets, and would

therefore probably not create any dissatisfaction.

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