CO129-569-7 Revision of salaries 6-7-1938 - 11-10-1938 — Page 46

Enclosure No. 2

Sir,

14th February, 1938

In accordance with G. 0. 228 I have the honour

to request that the following submission, regarding the new Scale of Salary proposed for my office may be represented

to His Excellency the Governor for his consideration.

The Assistant Harbour laster is a Senior

Officer on the Staff of the Harbour Department.

He is liable to be called upon, at any time;

to carry out, in addition to his own duties, the duties of

the Deputy Harbour Master, and, in an emergency, also the

duties of Harbour Master.

Fe is a Marine Magistrate and hears cases in the

Marine Court and when necessary sits as President of Marine Courts of Inquiry.

He is an Official Justice of the Peace.

Under the proposed scale of salaries the Assistant

arbour Master is not regarded as a Senior Officer of the

Harbour Department Staff, but is included under a heading

"Miscellaneous Posts", at a reduced salary, and grouped

with such Officers as the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade,

who is a promoted Subordinate Officer, and has no potential

responsibilities beyond his Office.

For the sake of comparison, the maximum salary of

the Assistant l'arbour Easter in 1927, when I was transferred

to Fong Kong, was £820 p.a. The then maximur salary of an

Assistant Government Marine Surveyor £700 p.a. In 1930

salaries were revised, and the maximum salary of the Assistant

Harbour Master was fixed at £950 p.a. and that of the

Government Farine Surveyors £825 p.a.

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