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The Chairman of the Commissioners was

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His Honour Sir Henry Cowper Gollan, Kt.C.3.E.,

then Chief Justice of the said Colony. The

two remaining Commissioners were Sir Shou-son

Chow, Senior Chinese Member of the Legislative

Council and Mr. Paul Lauder, Managing Director

of the Union Insurance Society Limited of

Canton, neither of whom is or was connected

with the Civil Service of the said Colony.

5. After hearing the evidence of two hundred

and seventy seven witnesses representing every

class, grade and group of the Government Service,

the Commissioners submitted a Report which was

unanimous and which was published in Sessional

Paper No. 3 of 1930.

6.

In the aforesaid Report the Commissioners,

after referring to the greatly increased cost of

living during the preceding eight years, expressed

the view that a fifteen per cent addition to the

then existing nominal sterling salaries might

properly be regarded as representing a permanent

increase in the cost of living in the Colony.

The Commissioners recommended that all sterling

salaries of employees of the Government should be

increased by fifteen per cent ( subject to

conditions which provided for the retention to

an officer of the number of dollars which he was

then drawing), and that such salaries should be

paid to them when on duty in Hong Kong in dollars,

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