CO129-578-2 Revision of salaries for Government employees 4-11-1938 - 12-12-1939 — Page 73

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In your letter of 23rd February, 1939,

No.53723/1/8, you referred to the dissatisfaction of the

women teachers in the Education Department of Hong Kong

with the new salary scheme applicable to them.

When the revised scales of salary for male

officers in the main branches had been put forward by my

predecessor in 1936 it was realised that there would have

to be a corresponding revision of the salaries of women

teachers, and a scale was suggested and approved in

December, 1936, involving considerable reduction, the

maximum being cut from £700 to £560. It was largely the

introduction of this scale which led to the petition of

February, 1937, to which you referred. That petition

and other representations of the mistresses were considered

by the Anomalies Committee on the new scales of salary and

H. R. Cowell, Esq., C.M.G.,

Colonial Office,

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