CO129-587-18 Chinese physical training instructors- improved salary scales 30-8-1940 - 22-10-1940 — Page 4

No.382.

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My Lord,

RECEIVED

10 OCT 1940 C. O. REGY

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

30th August, 1940.

I have the honour to request Your Lordship's

covering authority to make provision in the draft estimates

for 1941-42 for improved salary scales in respect of the

posts of Chinese Physical Training Instructor and Chinese

Female Physical Training Instructor in the Education

Department.

2.

As shown on page 36 of the printed estimates for

1940-41 there are eleven posts of Chinese Physical Training

Instructor on a salary scale of $600 to $840 by $60 annually

and two posts of Chinese Female Physical Training Instructor

on a salary scale of $480 to $660 by $60 annually. In

addition a Uniform Allowance of $50 per annum is paid.

3.

It has been represented to me by the Director of

Education that physical training in schools

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the extension

of which was strongly advocated in the Burney Report has

been much handicapped this year by the loss of two Physical

Training Instructors owing to lack of prospects in the

present salary scale. One successfully applied for

appointment as a Probationer Chinese Sanitary Inspector

(salary scale $1,200 to $1,800 by $100 annually) and the

other resigned from Government Service. These two men had

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LORD LLOYD OF DOLOBRAN,

&c., &c.,

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