CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930 — Page 178

should be allowed to continue to draw the same pay $300 a month

or $3,600 a year. The other translator should be recruited on

$3000-100-3600 a year. Neither of the Translators should be pro-

vided with a house allowance. The two clerks might receive $600

3 year each which brings the expenditure under this head to

$1,200. The messenger should get $12-1-15 maximum pay $180 a

year..

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15. Mr. Sung Hok Pang who has been seconded from Government

Service to the University for two years from the 1st January, 1927,

is now drawing by an arrangement with Government $3,600 a year with

no allowances. He has recently submitted a piteous plant about

the inadequacy of this pay. He is 47 years of age and joined

Government service in 1905. hen he left Queen's College he was

on his maximum of $3,000 a year, but I gather that since he has

been with us his salary scale under Government has been extended

by annual increments of $150 a year to $4,800 a year. As the re-

sult of this extension he would, were he at the moment in Govern-

ment service, be drawing $3,300 plus presumably some house allow-

as against the $3,600 a year without a house allowance which

he is drawing from the University. Mr. Sung is by all accounts a

good teacher of Cantonese for foreigners and it is perhaps reason-

able that if he be taken away from the service of Government to do

rather special work ho should receive some additional pay.

I am

suggesting that if he were taken on more or less permanently to

the University Staff as a member of the staff of the Chinese School

it should be on a salary scale of $4,000-160-4,800 a year without

any allowances. It may be argued that the senior teacher of the

Chinese Class should not draw pay in advance of the Chinoso Lec-

turers. But Mr. Sung has had 25 years of teaching experience.

The second teacher of the Language Class might be paid $2,000-

100-3,000 a year without any allowances.

16. All the accommodation which it has been found possible

to give to the Chinese Language Class is three small rooms in the

old workshop building. One of those is now being used as an office

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