CO129-505-4 Labour situation in Canton and effect on Hong Kong- Labour Advisory Board 27-1-1927 - 31-8-1927 — Page 8

NO CONFIDENTIAL.

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG 31st

31st August, 1927.

Sir,

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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

of your Confidential despatch of 4th July, 1927, on the subject of the rates of pay of certain subordinate grades of

Government servants, and to state that after further

consideration it has been deemed advisable to depart from the exact recommendations of the committee as regards Good Conduct Allowances, vide paragraph 8 of the report, a copy of which was forwarded in my Confidential despatch of 1st April, 1927.

2.

The committee was concerned with and reported

on office attendants, messengers and coolies, i.e. 'indoor' staff. But the system of Good Conduct Allowances, General Order 30(3), is not confined to 'indoor' staff. It applies to many other subordinate officers on fixed salaries in various branches of the service and any extension of the system would have to be made applicable to all officers who at present benefit by it.

3.

The extension recommended by the committee was that, instead of stopping at the third allowance after seven years' service as at present, further grants of $12 p.a. should be made every two years thereafter. The additional annual cost of the general extension of the new scheme throughout the grades

concerned

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,

&C.,

&c.,

&c.