CO129-524-10 Audit staff salaries 15-4-1930 - 15-4-1930 — Page 2

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A recommendation for filling the post of

Auditor will be sent in in due course when it has

been ascertained which of the officers whom I

consider the most suitable are desirous of the

appointment. The fact that the emoluments of

the post are not definitely settled is of course a serious handicapin dealing with the

matter at the moment. It would be a great convenience if this could be settled within, say,

the next three or four weeks so that the officers could be sounded knowing what the post is going to

be worth. As regards the future salary, the

telegram sent on 3rd February (No.2) was unhappily worded. What I said in my minute of 29th January (No.1) was that the pay of the Auditor should be

more than the salary of the Deputy Treasurer (or

whatever the second officer in the Treasury is

called) and at least on a level with the pay drawn

by Heads of Departments next below those who are

members of the Executive Council and that he should

not be treated as the Head of a minor Department.

But in the telegram the S. of S. is made to say that

the salary of the Auditor should not be less than

those of Heads of minor Departments, to which the

Hong Kong Government of course reply (No.5) that the

proposed salary is quite up to that proposed for

Heads of minor Departments. The 0.A.G's. statement

that "Of minor departments only two heads, Crown Solicitor and Land Officer, are on equivalent scale"

is not strictly correct, for the minimum salary

proposed