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and for these we recommend the grant of the bonus in respect of the 1930 New Year,

As regards the remainder of the labourers" employed by Government our investigations are not yet complete, but we shall submit a recommendation befors

next Chinese New Year,

5.

SECTION 3.

Senior Clerical & Accounting Staff.

Two Officers in Class I. of this branch

of the service, Messrs. A.J. Reed and H. Dixon, are on dollar salaries with certain special privileges connected with the history of their transfer from sterling salaries. Having regard to the facts of this history and their service generally we recommend that they be given the option of reverting to the sterling maximum of their class, i.e. £700 per annum. But it should be understood that if they do elect to revert, they accept all the implications of the transfer both in the matter of the conversion of sterling into dollars and of possible reduction of pension (if drawn locally) in the event of a substantial rise in the

value of the dollar.

6. Mr. C.J. Roe has appealed against the salary allotted to him in Class I into which he was brought from a previous scale intermediate

between Classes I and II on the 1st of January, 1930.

We are