CO129-558-8 Revision of salaries 19-8-1936 - 11-2-1937 — Page 43

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MEMO BY THE DIRECTOR OF COLONIAL AUDIT ON THE PROPOSED

SALARIES OF OFFICERS OF THE COLONIAL AUDIT DEPARTMENT

SERVING IN HONG KONG.

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At present the establishment is as follows :

1

Auditor

£1,400.

+ Locally

styled First

2

Assistant Auditors✦

on £800-£50-£1,050.

Assistant

Auditor and Second Assis- tant Auditor

1

Assistant Auditor

on £450-£50-£700.

The Governor proposes that it should be altered to :-

1 Auditor

£1,350 with free

quarters, reckoned at £150 a year for

pension.

3

Assistant Auditors

£25

J

...

on £460, £460, £520, £570

£670, £700 (efficiency bar)

£800 £30

-

£920 with a non pensionable

allowance (drawn only while in Hong Kong)

at the rate of £50 (or $840) a year from

£520 to £920 inclusive, rising to £100 (or

$1,680) after the officer has been on a

salary of £920 for one year.

2. Subject to two assumptions and one alteration,

I consider that the above proposals are suitable for

adoption for the time being (as regards the future see

paragraph 7 below.)

3. The alteration which I desire is that there

should be two distinct and separate grades below the

Auditor

namely :-

Senior Assistant Auditor and

Assistant Auditor.

4.