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I propose in this despatch to ask your
sanction for the appointment of a Commission to consider questions of the remuneration of officers generally; but much time will be required for the investigations of such a Commission and for considering and giving effect to any recommendations which it might put forward, and I am of opinion that an immediate measure of relief is required. Therefore, as an interim measure, I recommend the adoption of the sliding scale principle on the lines indicated in the preceding paragraph, and I suggest 1st July, 1928, as a suitable date for its introduction. The only reason which prevented me from making a recommendation on these lines at the end of 1926, instead of putting forward the remittance privileges scheme, which you approved with same reluctance as you considered a wider scheme more desirable, was the critical financial position of the Colony at the time. I think that I can safely say that the Colony has at last weathered the storm, which began in 1925, and that funds can be made available to finance the proposals which I now make.
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The proposals which I have put forward above are of general application, and their adoption is in my opinion necessary because of the fall in the value of the dollar since the revision of salaries in 1920, and of the increased cost of living in the Colony generally. But there are certain groups of officers, whose scales of salary require special consideration, and I shall deal with them in the paragraphs which follow.
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Cadet Service.
In my telegram of the 3rd of February on the subject of a proposed reduction of the minimum age for the recruitment of Cadets I indicated that so far as Hong Kong
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