13.
the commencing salary of the following Chinese Civil Servants :-
Computer, Royal Observatory Assistant Land Surveyor
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Draftsman, Fublic Works Department
Meter Readers
Tolice Sub-Inspector
Vernacular Master, Education Department
$1100 a year. $800 a year.
600 a year. 600 a year.
900 a year.
$ 900 a year.
(Vide Appendix I).
It is significant that rigid routine work such
as reading of meters and copying of plans and drafts should have
a commencing salary of $600 as against the $480 a year of your
petitioners.
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It is also significant to note that all the above
Civil Servants obtain, at the end of 20 years' service, a much
higher salary than your petitioners. In fact when new posts
were recently created, such as Police Sub-Inspectors and Sanitary
Inspectors, the commencing salary was fixed at almost double
that paid to your petitioners.
There is little wonder therefore
that many of your petitioners prefer to be transferred to these
branches of the Service.
15.
That the recommendation of the Salaries Commission,
1929, regarding rent allowance, referred to in paragraph 5 herein,
be carried out as early as possible.
Appendix L gives a brief history of the effort to
provide quarters for Chinese subordinate officers who had completed
ten years' service.
Your petitioners beg respectfully to point out that
no steps have been made to grant them a rent allowance as from
the moment of their entry into the Service.
As this right is enjoyed by the European section
of the Service, this unconscious discrimination is being keenly
felt by your petitioners.
Further, your petitioners respectfully beg to
state that the maximum rent allowance for even the highest class
of Chinese officers (J.C.S.) is but 325 a month. This sum is
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