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expression of salaries in local currency is

the only really satisfactory method from the

point of view of the Colony's estimates and

accounting; it makes for stability when

exchange rates are fluctuating, since the

exchange problems are confined to the

comparatively narrow field of remittances,

moment is

leave pay and pensions, and do not affect

the bulk of the salary votes./

therefore

The present however,

for

consider that, unless you are in a position

to bring forward strong objections, the revised

scales to be drawn up for new entrants should

be expressed in dellare.

(b) Quarters. The present arrangements

atein

Hong Kong for the deduction of rent in the case

of officers provided with Government quarters

and for the grant of allowances to those not

in opportune

making this change in "H; A I merely command

the

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prinsiple for your counideration at a later date, when the furtive of the currency of the can be fores.com Colony

so provided appear to me to be somewhat complicated,

and the system makes it difficult for a person

considering an offer of appointment to Hong Kong

to make out precisely how he will stand. Since

in

(more cent

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