CO129-526-12 Proposals to raise additional revenue due to revised salary schemes- etc. 16-6-1930 - 23-2-1931 — Page 14

I befor

5.

The Association is a very active one, and aims

at being genuinely useful to the Government in the consideration of questions affecting Kowloon.

Its efforts

and its free-spoken criticisms have been and continue to be

of real value: but it can make no claim to be representative

of more than a small section of the large population now residing on the Kowloon side of the Colony. Further it has full access, as a body or individually, to the unofficial members of Council, and the Hansard Report of the debate on

the Salaries Commission's recommendations will have shewn

to Your Lordship that they spared no effort and omitted no argument in championing the cause which the Kowloon Residents' Association now seeks to support in their memorial.

I have no comment to make in regard to the

points raised in the memorial except that, as Your Lord ship is aware, I have appointed a Retrenchment Commission to consider possible economies in staff and general expenditure

and have also agreed, subject to Your Lordship's approval,

to the imposition of a limit on the rate of exchange at which

sterling salaries should be paid.

6.

I have the honour to be,

My Lord,

Your Lordship' s most obedient,

humble servant,

72797/30

Governor, &c.