an
This used be put as
alterative auggestion, we I wrved not kim down the loral scheme.
H
18
The Treasurer according to MrClauson's
information v the P.Q. file, anticipates a surplus
at the end of the year, and the serious budgetary
position, which
justified the step against
which the whole Hong Kong European Service and others
have continued to protest, may be regarded as
repaired. The Currency Commissioners' report is
according to Mr Clauson not likely to afford much
guidance for the reconsideration which has be en
promised, and the position will become to an
increasing extent more difficult to defend, unless
a more sahifactory some gradual restoration to
system of payment
in dollars in the Colony of salaries fixed and
offered in sterling be decided upon. H
reter to my minate of 19/3 carlier on this file)
approved
I very much hope Mr Martin's proposal will be debented.
As regards the Governor's proposal for
the solution of the remittance difficulty it seems
to me an unnecessarily involved scheme, and I should
prefer that each case in which the rule operates
harshly in the existing extraordinary situation
should be sympathetically considered by the Governor
on its merits, and that he should be given authority
to allow, say, up to a furtner 10 or 15% of salary
to be converted at the current rate
cases whe re
he is satisfied that commitments already exist to
justify it, or that commitments would, in normal
circumstances of salary conversion, have been
reasonably incurred - (the latter is necessary, I
think, in order that a lasting disadvantage may not
be forced upon an officer as a result of an emergency situation admittedly temporary,
(sa.) G.E.J.Gent.
14/7
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