CO129-577-8 Junior Clerical Service- petition for improvements in salaries and conditions of service 6-7-1939 - 19-12-1939 — Page 43

IN THE MATTER OF the

Junior Clerical Service

To The Right Honourable MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,

&C.,

&C.,

&c.,

His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies

SHEWETH :-

The humble petition of the

undersigned members of His

Majesty's Junior Clerical

Service in the Colony of

Hong Kong

1. That the Junior Clerical Service is divided into

nine classes and its standard Establishment (excluding the Special

Class) on 1st January, 1938, was 719. The present salary scales

were recommended by the Salaries Commission of 1929 and have been

in force since 1st January, 1930. They are :-

Class VIB

Class VIA

Special Class (open only to non-Chinese)

Class V

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$480 $1050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of 350 and 2 of $100.

$950

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$1050 by $100.

$2400 by $100 with efficiency

$1200

bar at $1800.

$1100 $1400 by $100.

Class IV

$1500

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$1800 by $100.

Class III

$1900

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$2600 by $100.

Class II

$2700

$3300 by $150.

Class I

Higher

$3500

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$4500 by $200.

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$4800 35600 by $200.

2.

That after nine years of reasonable trial, your

petitioners are in a position to indicate some of the hardships