Enclosure No. 4.
Colonial Secretary's memorandum on
the Estimates for 1937.
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Head 1, H.E. the Governor.
There is an increase in Personal Emoluments due to lower rate of exchange, the provision of acting pay for the Officer Administering the Government for a period of seven months during which His Excellency the Governor expects to be on home leave, and the substitution of a Cadet Officer for a Private Secretary appointed from outside the service on a fixed salary of £500 per
year.
Head 2. C.S.0. and Lesiglature.
Since the introduction of the Budget for 1936 three officers have been lost to the Cadet service; one by promotion and two by retirement. No new recruitment is, however, proposed in 1937.
A noteworthy change in the Clerical Staff is shown in the retrenchment of two Probationers, Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff, and the substitution therefor of two posts in the new Class IV (Local Section); this is part of Government's policy of substituting locally recruited dollar-paid officers for sterling-
paid officers.
Heads 6 and 7. District Offices.
On grounds of economy the vote for Local Public Works in
each of these Departments has been reduced.
Head 8. Post Office and Wireless.
A. Post Office.
The air mail service between Hong Kong and the United
Kingdom via Penang calls for an annual payment of £7,500 for carriage of mails and two other payments, one being the Colony's
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