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4.
It is true that some of the local business houses
pay their Chinese employees less than $100 a
month after six years' service. This is, how-
ever, by no means general (especially for clerks
who have passed Matriculation or the Senior Local
Examination) and is certainly not true of the
more respectable and old-established firms. Nor
it is fair to compare with the salary scales
of Civil Servants in China, where the standard
and cost of living are lower and the dollar has
greater purchasing power.
It is therefore respectfully suggested that
Government should base the remuneration of its .
employees on the example not of the worst type
of employers but of the better, if not the best
type. A fairer basis of comparison is the
Junior Civil Service in His Majesty's Naval
Dockyard, or other of H.M. Naval and Military
Departments, or even the Chinese Maritime Customs.
For instance Chinese clerks in H. M. Naval
Dockyard receive the following rates of remuner-
ation :-
Grade III Grade II Grade I
$1080 to $1620. $1632 to $2280. $2400 to $3000.
In addition these employees receive an allowance
equivalent to 47% of their salary. Incidentally,
they are divided into three grades as contrasted
with the nine classes of the Junior Clerical Service.
For this reason many colleagues of your petition-
ers during recent years have left to join the
service of H. M. Naval Dockyard.
A contributory cause of the stagnation in promotions
lies in the fact that the posts in the upper
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