(See Enclosure
No. 3.
2.
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common source of supply, require to be attracted to pursue
careers in the Colonial Service. The basis also provides a
convenient standard by which to eliminate diversities of
treatment between similar services in the different Colonies.
The applicability of an average C.R.I.F., with due considerat-
ion of other factors, in arriving at a reasonable salary scale
for the service of marine surveys in Hong Kong, would seem
to be enhanced by the fact that Hong Kong is the principal
ship construction and ship survey port in the British Empire, outside the United Kingdom, and, in magnitude, compares with
the larger survey ports of the United Kingdom. A further
relevant consideration is, that much of the survey work on
British passenger ships is performed in Hong Kong on behalf
of the Board of Trade.
Diagram A is an attempt to draw proportionate
parallels between the survey work undertaken in the year
1935 in Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United Kingdom, in
respect of the tons of passenger ships surveyed. The
allocation of the Board of Trade functions among the Hong Kong
officials concerned is an endeavour to illustrate the magnitude
of responsibility carried by these officers in the Colony under
the Merchant Shipping Acts. The diagram illustrates in
relation to the administrative and professional staff of the
Mercantile Marine Department, Board of Trade, the variety of
duties which fall to be performed by the Government Marine
Surveyor and the surveyors of this office in which an added
responsibility arises in that no fewer than 8 foreign nations
use the commercial and international conveniences provided by
a survey at this port.
Table B shows the analysis, extended to include
Malayan services which are broadly comparable. It includes the present and proposed new time-scales for Hong Kong set
forth for the personnel of each service, on the informative
(See Enclosure
No. 4.)
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