CO129-524-1 Reports of Salaries Commission 31-12-1929 - 27-10-1930 — Page 92

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Enclosure No. 1.

HONG KONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

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Hong Kong, 14th February, 1930.

Sir,

I have now the honour to reply to the

Government's letter No.3240/1929, dated 50th October, 1929,

requesting any observations or representations which the

Chamber of Commerce may desire to make on the Report of the

Salaries Commission, 1929.

A Special Committee, consisting of the Hon.

Mr. V. E. L. Shenton (Chairman), Mr. M. T. Johnson and Mir.

A. Ritchie, was appointed to examine the Report in detail

and three copies of their comments are enclosed, together

with three copies of a summary of the evidence collected

as a result of a circular addressed to the heads of firms

and companies which are large employers in the Colony.

I am directed to state that the Committee,

after careful consideration, has adopted the Report of the

Special Committee as its considered views upon the Salaries

question. Fran this decision Mr. Paul Lauder, who was a

member of the Commission, and is a member of the General

Committee of the Chamber, dissociates himself.

I am desired to convey the thanks of the

Chamber to the Government for having been afforded an

opportunity of expressing its views on this most important

subject.

The Honourable

The Colonial Secretary,

Hong Kong.

I have, &c.,

(Sd.) M. F. Key,

Secretary.