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3. Minute by Mr. Acheson

24th January, 1936.

I attach a draft for consideration.

It refers to 91784/7D/32 - No: 28, because much

of what is there said is relevant to the present discussion.

I have taken account in drafting of the observations

relating to quarters (paragraph 6) and have referred briefly

to paragraph 4 as regards "local allowances".

For the rest I think the Governor can be left

to formulate his own views. A good deal of water has

flowed under the bridge since 1933.

The draft covers all the pension points which

have been put to East and West Africa in so far as they

are applicable to Hong Kong. Much of it is, of course,

merely a reproduction of despatches, memoranda, etc.,

which have been sent to other places.

4. Minute by Mr. Gent

24th January, 1936.

I have read through this draft and have no

comment to offer except that (1) it had better be sent on

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an appropriate "Personnel" file rather than on this

file relating to the 1936 Estimates.

(2) It would seem to be something of a deficiency

in a despatch which raises the whole issue of salaries

revision in Hong Kong if it does not also raise the very

important question whether salaries shall be expressed in

sterling or local currency. I am getting out the history

of that particular issue, and will send on a note about it

to C.S.D.

Perhaps this draft might be transferred in the

interval to a Personnel file and come up again for

consideration with the inclusion of a passage about the

sterling

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