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XXX CONFIDENTIAL.

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

20th May, 1939.

I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your

confidential (4) despatch of 27th April, 1939, 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.

2. I propose to adopt the alternative suggested by you

with regard to residential allowances, but as indicated in

my despatch confidential (4) of 11th May, 1939, the formula

proposed gives rise to certain difficulties. The formula

suggested by the Anomalies Committee resulted in the residential

allowances disappearing at a salary of £1250 and it was with

that in mind that the Committee recommended fixed salaries of

£1250 for certain posts. It has, moreover, never been intended

at any stage of the discussions of these new salaries that residential allowances should be paid to officers in receipt of the super-scale salaries for Heads of Departments, etc., set out

in Part 2 of Appendix VI to General Orders. I have, therefore, decided that, in the first place a residential allowance should not be paid to any officers in receipt of salary in excess of £1250 per annum, and secondly that there should be substituted for the fixed salary of £1250 recommended by the Anomalies Committee fixed salaries of £1200 plus residential allowance of £70 on the scale suggested by you. The position of certain

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,

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