CO129-562-14 Vacancy for an assistant analyst in Department of Imports and Exports 30-11-1936 - 30-9-1937 — Page 31

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PARTICULARS OF THE OFFICE OF ASSISTANT ANALYST, IMPORTS AND EXPORTS DEPARTMENT, NOW VACANT IN THE IPORTS AND EXPORTS

DEPARTMENT, HONG KONG.

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1. Duties of Office

and Qualifications required for their performance.

Duties. Analytical work in connection with Customs,

Excise and anti-narcotic campaign. Executive duties at head office and general inspection and investigation.

Qualifications. Associate or Fellow of the

Institute of Chemistry preferably possessing an Honours Degree in Chemistry granted by a British University. Candidate should if possible be under 27 years of age and unmarried.

2. Language qualifications

required.

3. Salary.

(see also under 4.)

£500 £800 by 5 annual increments of 25, 2 of £50 and 3 of £25.

4. Conversion of salary

into local currency and contribution to Provident Fund.

For purposes of payments in the Colony sterling salaries are at present converted into dollars at a rate fixed by the Government. The minimum conversion rate is at present 1/3 = $1 but it is proposed to reduce this to 1/3 on 1st January, 1937. A deduction of 4% from salary is made as contribution to the Widows' Orphans' Pension Scheme.

5. Allowances, quarters,

and other circumstances affecting the value of the office.

6. Nature, number and amount

of securities required, and mode of giving them.

Partially furnished quarters are provided, but the number of quarters is limited, and they are not usually allotted to an officer with no wife or children in the Colony. An officer occupying Government quarters pays 7% of his salary as rent.

When quarters are not available, rent allowance is paid to a married officer who rents a separate self contained tenement on a scale graduated from 150 to $250 per month, less 6% of the officer's salary. An officer with wife or family in the Colony who lives otherwise than in Government quarters or in a separate self contained tenement, lodging allowance to a maximum of 100 per month; and an unmarried officer or an officer with no wife or children in the Colony in similar circumstances an allowance to a maximum of $50 per month. The payment of these allowances is subject to the conditions laid down in Hong Kong General Orders.

None.