COPY
C.S.O.
Recd. Dec.16. 1927.
Enclosure No 5.
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CHINESE GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
64 & 65 Connaught Road, Central,
Hong Kong, 12th December, 1927.
The Honourable
The Colonial Secretary.
Sir,
I am directed to acknowledge receipt of your letter
No.8 in 3075/1920 of the 18th October on the subject of
the emoluments of the Chinese Clerical Staff in the
Government Service, and asking for information as to what were the prevailing rates of remuneration for clerks in
the commercial world of Hong Kong, and how they compared
with those paid by the Government.
Upon the receipt of your letter this Chamber appointed
a small committee to make enquiries of the principal firms,
and I am now directed to report to you the result of their
investigations which has been duly considered and approved by my Executive Committee.
The investigations made have been confined to Chinese
firms worked on Chinese lines only, it being thought that
Foreign Firms and Chinese firms worked on Foreign lines
do not come within the purview of our enquiry. Information
regarding the latter can doubtless be better obtained from
the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce.
It was found that the conditions of service obtaining
in Chinese firms were so much different from those pre-
vailing in Foreign offices that no proper comparison of
salaries paid by the former and those paid by the Govern-
ment could be made. Clerks in Chinese firms have many
prospects which are denied to Government Civil servants,
which in a measure compensate them for their smaller sala-
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