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bepo finally deciding Fain report,

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proposed that

definite approval should now

be given by the Secretary of State to the

Governor's recommendation on the Anomalies

Committee's scheme.th the

matter concerning residential clie

The petition of the engineers of the

P.W.D., which is transmitted in No. 4 by the

Governor, contains representations against the

reduction of their terms of remuneration which

has already been approved as part of the general

new scheme. The engineers desire to retain the

more favourable terms which were fixed for them

by the 1929 Salaries Commission. The se

representations were considered by the Anomalies

Committee itself and by the Governor before he

approved that Committee's conclusions. The

Governor remarks that the 1929 Commission gave

the P.W.D. relatively more favourable treatment

in comparison with other departments than is

usual elsewhere in the Colonial Service. This

favoured treatment has been the source of constant

complaints by the officers of other departments,

and the Governor has no doubt that if a concession

to the P.W.D. as regards their general level of

salaries were now made, it would be followed by

similar claims from other departments in Hong Kong.

In two respects, however, he draws attention to

advantages which have accrued to the P.W.D.

engineers, first, the raising of the engineer in

charge of the Water Department to the status of

an Assistant Director of Works, and secondly,

the