CO129-558-8 Revision of salaries 19-8-1936 - 11-2-1937 — Page 127

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to the top rank and the creation of two superscale Deputy posts, one in the Treasury and the other in the Chinese

Secretariat. These alterations are shewn in Table H.

8.

As paragraph 9 of the despatch under reply

deals with matters not directly connected with the question

of salaries it will be answered in a later separate despatch.

The enclosures to this despatch contain the

9.

proposed revision of Hong Kong salaries on the African

(mainly West African) basis as follows:-

Table A.

Administrative Service.

Table B.

Public Works Service.

Table C.

Medical Service.

Table D.

Legal Service.

Table E.

Educational Service.

Table F.

Police Service.

Table G.

Audit Service.

Table H.

Special Appointments with

free quarters.

In all these Tables a dotted line denotes a confirmation

bar, a single line an efficiency bar, and a double line

a promotion bar.

10.

I have dealt with this matter with an expedition

that may have entailed a few inaccuracies or anomalies, but I

should be grateful if I might be informed at your earliest possible convenience whether the general method (explained in the preceding paragraphs and exemplified in the enclosures) of adapting our salary rates to the African model meets with

your approval and acceptance. If so, the Tables will be subjected to further final scrutiny and condensed into a

Single Schedule, similar to the African ones; and then

(what will be a task of some magnitude) the remaining

Hong Kong salaries must be reviewed in the light of this