CO129-509-13 Pay and conditions of service of private secretary and aide-de-camp to Governor 3-2-1928 - 11-12-1928 — Page 29

No 69-

52816

RECEIVED

! MAR 1928

ICOL,OFE

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 3rd February, 1928.

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Gov

19417/13

Aned 130

30174/27

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Sir,

With reference to Mr. (afterwards Viscount) Harcourt's despatch No.198 of 11th July, 1913, regarding the leave of the Governor's Private Secretary and Aide-de-Camp, I have the honour to inform you that I propose to regard these officers as eligible for six weeks' full pay leave in respect of each period of twelve months' resident service, subject to a maximum accumulation of three months' full pay leave in respect of a completed period of 24 months' resident

service, and I request your sanction to make provision in the Estimates for 1929 for acting pay accordingly, in order to avoid the necessity of approaching the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council for a supplementary vote.

2.

I venture also to recommend that the salaries

Owing to

attached to these posts should be reconsidered.

the amount of work he has had to perform lir. Forster, my Private Secretary, was last year granted a bonus of $200 per month, (see my despatch No.214 of 2nd May, 1927), which bonus is with the consent of the Finance Committee still being paid

to him.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

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

&C.,

&c.,

&c.

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