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Category (iv) consists of employees on the temporary establishment in wartime departments. These men in general received higher rates of salary than officers on the permanent establishment doing corresponding work and as they have had seven month's pay to compensate them for the loss of their jobs after service of a year or sometimes even of a few months' duration it is not felt that they have any further claim on the Hongkong Government. Many of them were previously in the employ of the Chinese Government and have a better chance of finding new employment in China.
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Category (v) consists of daily paid workers. In the absence of any records or precise information it is extremely difficult to adjudicate on these men's claims and unless a man can prove that he has had exceptionally long service, it is considered that the provision of additional relief would only encourage fraudulent claims.
17. The views expressed in paragraphs 11 to 16 above should be qualified to the extent that all people falling into the above categories may have a claim to further assistance from relief funds, if they are British subjects. They would then come under the relief scheme proposed for categories (e) and (f) in Imbassy despatch 292 of 19th August 1942.
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Although there may be valid reasons why many Government servants have been unable to leave Hongkong, it is felt that some time limit should be set to the treatment at present being extended to Hongkong Government servants and I suggest that those reporting after 30th June 1943 should receive the arrears of pay for December 1941, plus one or three months notice according to the terms of their engagement and that the question of pensions or other
Effective date 30/6/42 for notices
was suggested in Chungking tex. 867 (09) and approved in F.Orel 930 (010).
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