CO129-574-1 Salaries and promotion prospects of women graduate teachers 5-8-1938 - 27-9-1938 — Page 29

No. 2113/1937

N/S: TMK

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,

HÙNG HÙNG,

5th May, 1937.

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Madam,

I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the

3rd March, 1937, and to inform you that the petition which accompanied

your letter has been carefully considered by His Excellency the Officer

Administering the Government.

2. The salary scales for new entrants to the Government Service

are at present under revision. The new scales already approved are in

most cases less favourable than the old, and proposals which involve an

increase in personal emoluments cannot at this juncture be put forward

with any prospect of acceptance. The Government is not therefore prepared to adopt the suggestion that graduate teachers should receive an addition

of two increments to their salary. Alternatively any reduction in the

salary scale of non-graduate teachers at present in the service would ap-

pear to be inequitable. The matter will, however, be further considered

in connection with the preparation of a revised salary scale for new

entrants.

3. While His Excellency is of the opinion that the Head Mistress

of Belilios Public School, and the Senior Mistress in the Central British

School should as a general rule be graduates, he is unable to see his way to give any positive undertaking that this will be the invariable rule in

future.

4.

Senior Mistresships are not at present attached to any posts.

but are personal to their holders. The question of attaching them to definite

positions will be further examined in connection with the proposed revision

of salary scales, but I am to make it clear that action on such lines against

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the holders of other qualifications.

may not I wour Graduates

I am, Sir,

(Signed)

Your obedient servant

p.Colonial Secretary.