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NXX CONFIDENTIAL (2)

Sir,

RECEIVED

24 SEP 1938 0.0.5

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG,

13th September, 1938.

I have the honour to inform you that there is

the expectation before the end of this year of two

vacancies in Class I of the Administrative Service

consequent upon the retirement on pension of Mr. G.R.

Sayer and Mr. W. Schofield.

1 on 53723/38 2.

In my confidential (2) despatch of 4th April, 1938, I gave my reasons for continuing the existing

sys stem of a senior grade as against the creation of a number of senior administrative posts with varying fixed

salaries as had been suggested in previous correspondence

on the subject; and on the assumption that such a scheme was acceptable to you I took this a stage further in the

fourth paragraph of the confidential despatch of 6th

3 on 53723/38 September, 1938, with which I transmitted copies of a

report on certain anomalies in the new scales of salaries.

Page 30 of that report contains the recommendations to

which reference is there made.

3.

The full consideration of the report on

anomalies will no doubt require some considerable time

and possibly further correspondence will be necessary;

but I should be grateful if the specific subject now in question might receive your early decision in view of the

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,

&C., &C., &C.

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