CO129-524-1 Reports of Salaries Commission 31-12-1929 - 27-10-1930 — Page 43

N° 459.

27.

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My Lord,

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG. 9th September, 1930.

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1 3 OCT 192

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I have the honour to refer to paragraph 164

of the Salaries Report where the following charge allowances

are criticised:-

Kowloon-Canton Railway.

Ansd (28.

PA

// 237805

S.AWarker

2.

Traffic Manager

$1,000.

Chief Mechanical Engineer

-

$1,500.

The former allowance originated from Sir C.

Clementi's despatch No.302 of 28th June, 1926, which received

the approval of Mr. Amery in his despatch No.265 of 20th

August, 1926. The allowance to the Chief Mechanical

Engineer was approved by the Officer Administering the

Government (Sir Claud Severn) in September 1922, but does

not seem to have been submitted to the Secretary of State

for approval otherwise than in the Estimates for the

following year where on page 86 the following footnote

occurs "allowance granted for work in connection with

supervision of Government motor cars". The duties of the Chief Mechanical Engineer in connection with Government motor

vehicles have increased steadily and the enclosed note of

recent work will serve to show its value to Government.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LORD PASSFIELD,

Such

&c.,

&C.,

&c.