CO129-509-13 Pay and conditions of service of private secretary and aide-de-camp to Governor 3-2-1928 - 11-12-1928 — Page 8

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Mr.Beckett,

I cannot trace any precedents or rulings

on this subject.

The Auditor does not appear to have made

any of the cases referred to by the Governor

the subject of a special report to the D.C.A.,

but it is quite possible that he may have

dealt with them by local queries, copies of

which are not retained in this office.

Will you please refer the papers again

when a decision has been reached so that I may

be in a position to reply to the Auditor.

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Assistant Director, Colonial Audit Dept.

20/9/28.

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notifies appt. of F.H. J. Trages & Ptr. Soc.

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The Colonial Audit Department are

unable to help as regards the precedents quoted

in No.3. As suggested in my Minute of the

10th of August, I think we should have Sir C. Clementi's observations on the despatch before proceeding with its consideration.

proposed.

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I am sorry to have kept this so

It looks as if the Hong Kong

Government has lost sight of the fact that the

Private Secretary and the A.D.C. to the

Governor of a Colony are the personal servants

of the Governor not civil servants. (I am

speaking of course of the case where the

Private Secretary or A.D.C. does not hold any other position in the Colony).

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When the Governor goes on leave, his Private

Secretary and A.D.C. normally go too, and they

return with the Governor, unless the latter has

engaged new ones. Whether they have a complete

holiday when on leave or have to do a certain

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amount of work for the Governor (if,

busy while in the U.K.) depends entirely on the

Governor. If a Private Secretary or A.D.C.

relinquishes his position while the Governor is

in the Colony, he has no claim to be given leave

as if he were a civil servant and this should, I

think, be made clear to the Hong Kong Government.

The Governor could give him some if he liked, but,

if so, the Governor would expect to have to manage

with only one man for the period of the departing

officer's leave, or he would, until that period

had expired, have either to get a new man on no

salary, or to pay any salary to the new man out

of his own pocket.

Again if a Private Secretary or A.D.C.

fell ill in the Colony, the Governor could give

him leave on full pay or half pay or no pay; but,

if he gave him leave on full pay, he would have

to do with an unpaid substitute or none, unless

he was prepared to pay the substitute out of his

own pocket.

When the Governor is on leave, whether

any pay is available for a Private Secretary or

A.D.C. to the 0.A.G. depends on what the Governor

has done about his own Private Secretary and

A.D.C. If no pay is available and the 0.A.G.

cannot (as he usually does in some Colonies) get

officers in the Colonial Service or an officer

of the garrison to act as his Private Secretary

or

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