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THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE

UNDERSIGNED EXECUTIVE ENGINEERS

AND ENGINEERS OF THE PUBLIC WORKS

DEPARTMENT OF HONG KONG TO THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE THE SECRETARY OF

STATE FOR THE COLONIES,

SHEWETH:

THAT, we, the undersigned Executive Engineers and

Engineers of the Public Works Department of the Government

of Hong Kong crave YOUR consideration on the matter of

YOUR petitioners' remunerations consequent upon the proposals

of Government to introduce new salary scales,

2.

That, YOUR petitioners are now receiving salaries

which were recommended by the Salaries Commission of 1929

and subsequently approved both by Government and by the

Secretary of State for the Colonies at that time.

3.

That, the Salaries Commission of 1929, which

included two of the most prominent and capable representa-

tives of local business firms, made a thorough investigation,

during a period of normal trading conditions, of all the

pertinent factors affecting our remunerations and that the

recommendations made by this Commission were considered by

it to represent a reasonable standard of remuneration

compatible with the responsibilities of office, professional

qualifications required, social obligations and cost of

living.

That, in 1936 partly on grounds of financial

stringency and partly on grounds of unification of the

Colonial Services, Government intimated that it proposed

to introduce new salary scales, details of which were

given in Sir Andrew Caldecote's despatch to the Secretary

of State dated 19th August, 1936, to be applied to new

entrants to the Service and, at some date to be announced,

to existing officers on promotion.