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Public Works Department,
Hong Kong, 27th July, 1938.
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The Honourable
The Director of Public Works.
Sir,
We have the honour to thank you for having granted us
facilities to peruse the anomalies Committee Report on the
proposed salary scales and attendant matters.
2. We submit herewith our observations therein under the
following heads:-
(I) The Engineer's Status.
(II) Prospects.
(III) Effects and anomalies.
(IV) Further notes on the anomalies Committee Report.
(V) Conclusions.
I. The Engineer's Status.
3.
In the above.Report we find that whereas the Committee
have thought it necessary to recommend great reductions in the
scales of salaries for the Engineering Officers of this Department
and little or no reductions in some branches, large increases
have been recommended for several other branches of the Service
(see pp.V).
4.
In view of the exhaustive investigation and subsequent
and recommendations made by the Salaries Commission of 1929,
accepted by Government, concerning the Salaries of all branches
of the Service, we are unable to understand why the differentiation
mentioned in paragraph 3 should be made, with the consequent change
of our status so much below what was then considered its rightful
position in the Service.
5. We submit that not only has there been no fundamental
reduction in our responsibilities to justify the lowering of our
salaries but there has been such a large growth of the Public
Services administered by this Department, with no increase in
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