CO129-575-13 Salaries scales in Hong Kong Police Force 6-6-1939 - 18-8-1939 — Page 4

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a good deal highest

higher

are

The Hong Kong pay is

but of course the costs of living too, the chances of promotion much less, and the leave conditions not so good and if I may say so, the status better. and,

The comparison with the Inspectorate in Mabyja is, I think, fallacions, as My Gal- working has shown. A sub. Inspector in Hong Kong gets ₤370x15-430 von Inspector £475x20-535, and from the establishments (Malaya 84 HK. 63) I doubt if that duties tresponsibilities are groups of dependencies.

Corales

much different in the two

Nevertheless The Hong Kong Segants + Lance- Sergeants have certainly made out a good case on grounds of stagnation. To be still at ₤240 after is years service a prospect which The Gov. does not dary- must be most discouraging.

Say

whether he

The Gov. does not would abolish the title of Sergrent as proposed on the petitioners. I should have thought it would be a pity to dose, x that those who had passed the efficiency bar might well continue to be called Serpents.

The proposed long grade is open to two criticisme, first the irregular progress. ion of increments (which are of a pièce with the other complications of which itk. are So fond in Establishment matters, & unre- lated to the efficiency, bar), and second the possibility that by reheving stagnation at £240 They may

be only recreating, it at £350.

I think we must assume that the Gov. the finance Clee, have taken the second of these into conson, but it would have been helpful to know who was the member The Clee, who disserted &

of whether it was on this ground or some

Lother

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