CO129-509-13 Pay and conditions of service of private secretary and aide-de-camp to Governor 3-2-1928 - 11-12-1928 — Page 17

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

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HONGKONG.

26th June, 1928.

Sir,

I have the honour to acknowledge receipt

of your despatch No.130 of 17th April, regarding the

leave and remuneration of the Governor's Private

Secretary and Aide-de-Camp.

2.

As regards the second paragraph of your despatch under reply, I would observe that any leave granted to these officers must be taken while either

the Governor or Officer Administering the Government is in the Colony, and there is no provision for separate salaries for the Private Secretary and Aide-de-Camp of an Officer Administering the Government. If either the Private Secretary or Aide-de-Camp is on leave at any time arrangements must be made, usually necessitating the payment of salary, for the performance of his duties.

It is, I think, unreasonable to expect that a Private Secretary or Aide-de-Camp should continue to work

indefinitely without leave, and in fact it has boen

found inevitable that sick leave should et times be

allowed. At the present moment my Aide-de-Camp,

TE RIGHT HONOURABL

LIEUTENANT COLONEL 1.C..S. ALTERY, E.P.,

&C.

&c.,

&C.

Captain