CO129-509-3 Nursing sisters- conditions of service and leave allowances 17-1-1928 - 13-3-1928 — Page 8

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Sir,

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ROFEB 1928

COL.C

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 17th January, 1928.

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

of Mr. Ormsby Core's despatch No.250 of 19th August, 1927, regarding the conditions of service of Nursing Sisters in Hong Kong and to inform you that in view of his representat- ions I am prepared to agree to the grant to nurses on a three years' agreement three months' leave in respect thereof with the proviso that a maximum of one month only may be taken during the agreement, thus leaving a minimum of two months available on its termination.

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This scheme of course automatically abolishes the provision of half pay during the voyage home (please see my despatch No.87 of 3rd March, 1927) as well as the 2 months leave laid down in Enclosure No.1 to my despatch No.477 of 25th November, 1926, and I shall be glad if the enclosed draft may be substituted for the paragraphs dealing with leave in that enclosure and also mutatis mutandis for paragraph 6 of the revised Colonial Office letter of selection the terms of which are, I fear, open to

misconstruction.

I have the honour to be, sår,

Your most obedient humble servant,

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

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

&c.,

&C.

&C.

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Governor, &c.

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In addition to 28 days sick leave in any calendar year,

a Nursing Sister will be eligible for three months leave

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on full pay in respect of her three years agreement of which

leave one month only may be taken during the agreement, the

balance being grantable on its satisfactory termination.

If on termination of her agreement the Sister is promoted

to the permanent and pensionable staff she will be eligible

in respect of a period of four years' resident service,

inclusive of the period on probation, for five months'

vacation leave on full pay and eight months' half pay leave,

subject to a limit of 12 months' leave in all.

With the permission of the Governor the whole or any

part of the half pay leave may be commuted to half that period on full pay Then any commuted leave is taken the

limit of total leave taken at one time is 10 months.

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