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Secretary of State
Your Reference.........
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22
16 DL 1948
DRAFT.
Dear Mackay,
A.MACKAY, Esq.,
(iz on
Treasury
-147)
2.
FURTHER ACTION.
- forthe Dept.
Miss Harris (s) v
bue; iff
Will you plean refer to scheme D768 L(C.D..A.C. No. 891) of the 14th.May, 1947, under which
an interun
was approved in
applied for grant of £1,000 ae an interim May 1947
ent towards the cost of training five engineer-
ing aprentices from the Hong Kong University.
For various reasons, many delays have been exper-
ienced in getting this scheme going: the-
apprentice,
present position ie it only two/have so far
They
been selected, and are not likely to arrive in
this country before next year. You agreed at the meeting on 28th October that the period of the interim grant should be extended to
3154 July 1949, 2. We are not therefore, in a position at present
here our allowances in the gross rate of carminis, any apprentie who is
earu
to draw up a final scheme;but before any of
bein
these students commenee their training we wish
determine more precisely.
to ruise the question of the basis on which
their allowances should be calculated.
In paragraph 6 of the Scheme memorandum we
stated that it was proposed to pay an allowance
representing the difference between a standard
allowance of £30 a month, and the actual earnings
is for each month. The intention that all the
Λ
students should receive the same monthly amount
Look
for maintenanceji
ejle have realised recently,
however, that shoulá
that should any apprentice beeeme liable
for Income Tax on hisxя the wages received from
his training firm. would receive less in total
emoluments than one paying less or no tax.
Moreover
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