CO129-543-3 Leave and passage regulations 13-1-1933 - 11-9-1933 — Page 6

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Thank is

suggestion for

a

final scheme: I dow set amount,

buy ext for spend applies

I think to a

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There are three Assistant Analysts

who are on the scale £500 £800. So they only

just come below the line for first class

passages.

It will be seen from (4A) however

that the Governor recommends the raising of the

dividing line to £825.

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A similar case was that of the 3rd

Assistant Auditor who is on the scale £450 -

£700. We have suggested in (4) that his scale

should be extended to £850 to overcome the

difficulty.

M.

The case of the Assistant Analysts

must, I think, be considered from the recruiting

point of view as well as on its other merits.

Appointments Department is asked from time to

time to select Assistant Analysts for Hong Kong.

The supply of suitable candidates is never very

great and it may grow less if the Institute

advise their Associates that the conditions

of service are bad. On the other hand, we

don't want to start making exceptions to

rules which may be quoted as precedents in

There do not seem, however, to

other cases.

be many similarly placed officers in Hong Kong;

are

most/either well below or well above the

Leither

dividing line. 13 Marine and Nautical Surveyors

are on the scale £550 £825; an Assistant at

the Observatory is on £500 - £800. I have looked

through the 1933 Estimates but I have not noticed

any other border-line cases. Presumably, in

view of the last sentence of the Governor's

telegram

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