CO129-524-1 Reports of Salaries Commission 31-12-1929 - 27-10-1930 — Page 207

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those obtaining within the Government service, a higher ratio

of Government to civilian salaries should exist, and we there-

fore invite attention to the following comparisons to illustr-

ate our C&30:-

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(a) Surveyors to Lloyds Register of Shipping who hold appoint-

ments of a somewhat similar nature to our own, but whose

work is subject to our approval as technical representa-

tives of the Government, in the same relationship as exists

at Home between Lloyds Register and the British Board of

Trade. A comparative statement of the initial salaries

at Home and in Hong Kong is as follows:-

B.O.T. Surveyor (Home)

4300

300+ 132 cost of living bonus, 1927

432 per annum.

4375

375 per annum.

Lloyds Surveyor (Home)

-do- (Hong Kong)

£750

-do-

-do-

Assistant Government Surveyor (Hong Kong)460+20%+6%+7% -4611 approx. X

X (of which only the sterling salary is pensionable and

payable whilst on leave, in contrast to the leave

payment of Lloyds).

It will be seen from the above that the salaries of

Assistant Government Marine Surveyors in Hong Kong

compare very unfavourably with those of Lloyds surveyors.

It should be noted that a Lloyds survey or is not usually

posted to the Far East until he has completed 3 years

service at Home, by which time his sterling slary here

would be 1840.

be 1840. He might, even then, be a year or two

under the minimum age of a man qualified for a ointment

as a survey or to the Hong Kong Government, Lloyds surveyors

being frequently recruited between the ages of 23 and 25

years. A junior Lloyds surveyor's salary in the Far

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10 £1000

Eastern service ranges from 1750 to

1000 per annum with

pension privileges, and Icave, etc. 3enior Lloyds Burveyors

1.e. men promoted after 12 years service, if posted to the

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