CO129-558-3 Levy on Salaries- petition from Chinese Civil Servants 3-1-1936 - 19-12-1936 — Page 11

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will have to be further considered.

(4) One final point

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if there is to be an

exemption limit, the logislation must contain

a proviso that the operation of the levy will

not reduce y salary below that limit.

It quite possible to devise a method which

will avoid discrimination, and I have proposed

one in the draft herewith for consideration.

I have spoken to Or Gent who sees no Bjôn to the draft, but be points out that this it is important to get a very early decision, and suggests that we had better leave it to the

The lost Governor to decide what to do.

part the draft is am drafted in that sense.

AB. Acheson

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I which it has already been apreet that

ths shd. be die

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xm ph almu thi

śnianciae positio JHK.

(Perhaps when this is settled, we might

suggest to Hong Kong that they should conside a revision of salaries etc. On

"unification

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lines for application to new entrants the case of the East & wear African Cole).

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