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

Cost of Living allowance of 71⁄2 or 15% with six

years to serve before he reaches £1400+ H.C.L.

allowance.

£50 - £1500

A salary of £1300 -

which is less than what is proposed by the

salaries Commission for the Head of the Police

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and the Harbour Master

£1350 £50 - £1600,

I have known Governors who I think, would have tried it - and one of them was Gov.of Hong Kong.

(Int.) A.F.

(and I see that the Hong Kong Government propose

to put the Head of the Police up to £1450 £50 -

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£1600 and the pay of the Deputy Head to £1400) - would enable Hong Kong to get a really good.

Auditor. If however it is thought impossible

to give the Auditor a maximum of £1500 though

I consider that the Auditor ought to have a

higher maximum than the maximum (£1400) of the

time scale to which every Cadet Officer can rise

automatically provided he passes his "Efficiency

bars", and he certainly ought to get more than

the Deputy Head of the Folice Department, I should

be prepared to accept as a compromise a fixed salary of £1400 plus H.C.L.allowance (or £1450 if the Deputy Treasurer or Deputy Head of the Police Department is given £1450). A fixed salary is in many ways more suitable for an Auditor than

an incremental scale, as the latter may tend to

deter an Auditor from doing his duty if he has

not attained his maximum and is confronted with

a Governor who, he thought, might use his power of withholding an increment certificate to induce

the Auditor to refrain from pursuing some question which the Governor wanted to be dropped. I don't say that any Governor would so abuse his powers;

but