CO129-578-2 Revision of salaries for Government employees 4-11-1938 - 12-12-1939 — Page 57

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RECEIV

- 4 DEC 1939

C. O. RE

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

21st November, 1939.

2/58723/38.

Sir,

I have the honour to refer to my

confidential despatch of 6th September, 1938, and

subsequent correspondence on the subject of the

report of the Committee to consider anomalies

arising out of the introduction in the Hong Kong

service of new scales of salary, and in particular

to the new scales of salary approved for Senior

Mistresses of the Education Department and for the

Principal, Belilios Public School.

2.

As you are aware, the new scale for the

post of Senior Mistress is a fixed salary of £750,

i.e. the same as the old scale. But it has been

pointed out that promotion of a Mistress on the old

scale to Senior Mistress on the new scale, although

it would not mean a cash disadvantage, would

involve a loss in pensionable emoluments, as

compared with the old scale, unless the officer

concerned were subsequently promoted to the post of

Principal, Belilios Public School. It seems

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,

&C.,

&c., &c.