CO129-569-7 Revision of salaries 6-7-1938 - 11-10-1938 — Page 22

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The 1939

file mohoses that

in all cases the

salary and allowance than his first senior officer

above the time-scale.

This was the germ of the

scheme adopted in the Home Civil Service.

I do not think that we need anything more

elaborate for Hong Kong, and on the attached sheet

I have attempted to show the effect of granting a

residential allowance of 10% of the first £400, 5%

of the next £400 and 22% of the next £400; no

allowance would be payable on any part of salary

(and

in excess of £1,200, (and an officer in receipt of

21,500 or more would get no allowance at all. I

would ask the Governor to consider a scheme on this

recidental alle skull basis, but the actual percentages and amounts are

be payable up to the 127 E1200 of sulany

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only a suggestion for consideration.

Paragraph 15. With the scheme proposed

above there would seem to be no need to recast the

upper ranges of the Administrative, Public Works and

Education scales. There seems to be no reason why

the new scheme should not apply to Mistresses in

the Education Department (a the very fact that the

Anomalies Committee's scheme is not applicable to

the Mistresses seems to me to indicate a serious

weakness).

Paragraph 16. In any case the residential

allowances should be variable, if only because the

cost of living is not stationary.

Paragraph 17. Taken with the accompanying

tables, this means that officers serving in different

Departments in Hong Kong have different periods of

They should I think all be the same

probation.

(as indeed they are throughout East Africa

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except

on the Kenya and Uganda Railways and throughout

West

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