CO129-577-8 Junior Clerical Service- petition for improvements in salaries and conditions of service 6-7-1939 - 19-12-1939 — Page 16

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Rent allowance would have been payable to

Then,

all officials on dollar salaries since 1930, in

accordance with the recommendations of the Salaries

Commission in paragraphs 180 and 181 of the Report,

but for the fact that, as reported in paragraph 2

of (20) on 72797/30, this particular concession was

cast as a sop to the wolves of the Legislative

Council at the last moment by Sir C. Clementi.

as now, it was claimed that what was sauce for the

European goose was sauce for the Chinese gander: but

Sir G. Northcote does not agree. He would, it appears

(see paragraph 13 of (1)), make the principle of the

matter depend upon whether the officer is locally

domiciled or not: but he does not say that he is

going to apply this principle to anyone but the

Junior Clerical Service. I think we should want to

know more about the general repercussions of this

principle before endorsing it; and also to know how

it would be proposed to treat the Indian members of

the J.C.S., some of whom seem from paragraph 54 of

the Salaries Commission Report not to be locally

domiciled.

The Governor would withdraw the allowance

It might mean those

from those "promoted under the new system", but this

phrase needs closer definition.

who under the new system obtain an increment of salary

which they would not otherwise have had, or it might

only mean those who are allowed to enter the new Class

I or the new Special Class. It is also proposed

that those who lose the allowance should have the loss

their

taken into account in the fixing of/first rise in pay

under the new scheme.

This, however, is not quite as

generous as it sounds.

So long as the man continues to

receive