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CONFIDENTIAL.

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

20th January, 1939.

I have the honour to refer to your confidential

3/38. despatch of 17th November, 1938, on the subject of the

11-138 2/7/38.

organization of the Hong Kong Administrative Service and the

salaries and acting allowances attached to Class I of that

service.

2.

I enclose for your information a copy of amendments

to General Orders which have been made to give effect to your

approval of the proposals made in my confidential (2)

despatches of 4th April, 1938, and 13th September, 1938. The

revised rate of acting pay, i.e. a flat allowance of £200

per annum has been applied with effect from the date of the

General Order, except in the case of Mr. R.R. Todd who has

been acting since March 1936 in the post of Chairman of the

Urban Council, and in whose case, for reasons explained below,

I have directed that acting pay should be paid with effect

from 1st January, 1938.

3.

When Sir Andrew Caldecott submitted his proposals for the general revision of salary scales, he proposed, as an integral part of his scheme for the Administrative Service, that the Chairman of the Urban Council should be raised to the

rank of a super-scale post with a fixed salary of £1,600 per year. Had that scheme been brought into operation any officer acting in that post would, under the usual Colonial Regulation,

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,

&c., &c., &c.