CO129-568-10 Government Marine Surveyors- petition for increase in salary 30-12-1937 - 6-11-1939 — Page 44

No. 768.

53712/1

Sir,

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

30th December, 1937.

Enclosures

Nos.1 to 4.

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1/21

Copy

enell. to

2.

I have the honour to inform you that I have

received representations from the Government Marine

Surveyors regarding the alleged inadequacy of their

salaries. Copies of the petitions and related diagrams

and tables submitted by those officers are enclosed.

A petition in somewhat similar terms was

forwarded under cover of Sir Cecil Clementi's despatch

No.37 of the 22nd January, 1930, and is referred to on

page 6 of the second enclosure to that despatch. The

request put forward in that petition was rejected, but

I am of the opinion that there may be grounds for a

reconsideration of the matter having regard to comparisons drawn between the salaries paid to Marine Surveyors in

Hong Kong and elsewhere, and between the salaries paid

3.

to Marine Surveyors in Hong Kong and those drawn by

technical officers in other branches of the service.

The present staff of the Marine Surveyor's Office consists of a Government Marine Surveyor on the scale £860 by £40 to £1100 and 14 Assistant Surveyors on the scale £550 by £25 to £825. The duties of these officers include all the functions of Surveyors of Ships in the Mercantile Marine Department of the Board of Trade.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

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

&C.,

&C.,

&C.

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