CO129-540-15 Creation of post of European Assistant Superintendent of Mails 15-6-1932 - 17-8-1932 — Page 6

No. 299.

Sir,

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG, 15th June, 1932.

I have the honour to request your covering

sanction for the creation of a new post of European

Assistant Superintendent of Mail's in the Hong Kong Post

Office with a salary scale of £250 to £445 by varying

increments as laid down in the Salaries Report for this

type of post.

2. This appointment, which it is proposed to fill

from within the service, will replace a locally recruited

Assistant Superintendent of Mails who died in May, 1931.

The post thus rendered vacant was omitted from the

Estimates for 1932 and its immediate restoration is

rendered necessary partly by the delay in completing the

transfer of Hong Kong's commercial wireless services to

the Merger Company (which might have released staff for

other postal duties) but mainly because the health of the

European Superintendent of Mails has recently been such

as to render his early retirement probable and it is

essential that a trained officer should be available if

the re-arrangements of staff which will then be inevitable

are to be carried out without risk to the efficiency and

security of the postal service. For the same reasons it

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

SIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.,

&C.,

&C.,

&c.

is

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