CO129-561-4 Alterations in local staff 22-12-1936 - 6-12-1937 — Page 7

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No.701

Sir

RECEIVED

PUAN 1937

0.0. REGY

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

22nd December, 1936.

I have the honour in accordance with Colonial

Regulation 267 to ask your approval of the following

changes in the fixed establishment of this Colony:-

(i) Addition to the Senior Clerical and

Accounting Staff (Local Section) of one officer in

Class III, namely, Mr. G. S. Edwards, who has been

transferred to this class from the Junior Clerical

Service on probation to replace, as Clerk and Usher

in the Supreme Court, Mr. S. A. Fowler whose transfer

to the Public Works Department as Land Bailiff will be

reported to you in the quarterly returns for the

quarter ending 31st December, 1936. The staff of

Clerks and Ushers classified as such is thus

correspondingly reduced by one.

Class I

Mr.

(ii) Addition of one officer to the Higher Cless of the Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff

(Local Section). The position of Mr. W. C. Low,

Clerk to the Puisne Judge, has been anomalous.

Low is a Eurasian and when he was appointed in 1934

he was appropriately placed on a dollar salary. The post of Chief Justice's clerk has since been filled by

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

W.G.A. ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P.,

&c.,

&C.,

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a member of the Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff (European Section) and it seems reasonable that Mr. Low should take his place in the appropriate corresponding

section. The class to which he has been assigned is

that which embraces his present salary scale, namely, $2,600 to $3,600 by $200 per annum, and he will enter the scale provided for the higher class of the Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff (Local Section) on 1st January, 1937, at the point nearest corresponding to his present salary, that is to say, at $3,300. To set against this increase is the abolition of the present

special appointment of Clerk to the Puisne Judge.

2. These changes, it will be observed, are

changes mainly of nomenclature; and in so far as they

amount to anything beyond this they are made in pursuance

of the policy of substitution with a view to economy of local for European staff and of the policy of unification of clerical posts for greater facility of transfer and

promotion within the service.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient, humble servant,

NL. Sunt

Colonial Secretary,

in the absence of the Governor.