CO129-546-7 Leave and passage regulations 3-1-1934 - 26-11-1935 — Page 36

No.556.

Sir,

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG,

1st November, 1934.

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I have the honour to address you on the

subject of the leave and passage privileges to be

accorded to European lady stenographers in the employ

of this Government.

2.

When this question was first under considera-

tion proposals were put forward in Mr. (now Sir Thomas)

Southorn's despatch No.396 of 10th August, 1928, for the

transfer of such officers after three years' service on

agreement to the permanent establishment on a sterling

salary with the usual privileges of a sterling-paid

officer.

3.

This policy has for some time been abandoned

for reasons of economy and at the present time out of

fourteen lady stenographers in the Government Service of whom twelve are domiciled in the United Kingdom only two remain on a sterling salary. The rest (on the scale $2,400 x $200 - $3,600) are on the same terms as regards leave as other locally recruited officers employed on a dollar salary.

4.

In the past this circumstance has not, I

feel, constituted a serious hardship. General Order No. 172 (No.145 of the former edition) provided for the

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

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

&c.,

&C.,

&C.