CO129-578-2 Revision of salaries for Government employees 4-11-1938 - 12-12-1939 — Page 91

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Nox CONFIDENTIAL.

Refere. 's reply

by the Suestion

~ A.

23177

(2) en 53725/39

(1)cn55723/39

Sir,

15 MAR 1939

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

53723/39

4th March, 1939.

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch Confidential (2) of 20th January, 1939, regarding the salary to be attached to the post of Director of Education in Hong Kong and to inform you that the relation between this post and those of Director of Medical Services and Director of Public Works had been

fully considered before the proposal contained in my confidential despatch of 4th November, 1938, was submitted and was in fact one of the main factors which led me to

propose the salary of £1500 per annum.

2.

The responsibilities of the Director of Medical

Services and the Director of Public Works are in my view

greater than those of the Director of Education, at any

rate in the present-day conditions of this Colony. Health problems are of the most urgent importance here and the

post of Director of Public Works has traditionally a

higher status here than in most Colonies, which appears

to be justified by the great importance and complexity

of engineering problems here, including the elaborate

waterworks, the problems of reclamation and site-formation

which are almost peculiar to Hong Kong and the

considerable amount of building work undertaken under

the direct supervision of the Public Works Department

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,

&C., &C.

&C.,