CO129-599-1 Salaries Commission 8-12-1947 - 22-12-1947 — Page 226

228

responsibility than rests on officers

holding comparable posts in other Colonial

territories. In the circumstances it is

considered that the proposed salary for

Principal Matron Hong Kong can be

accepted.

As regards the scale pe

augh Ant.

будет

In WC.S.J. AM

scale

5. As regards the Administrative side,

while eliminating the series of £90

increments towards the top of the scale,

al

we have aimed (the same time in the

proposed revision at not upsetting the

general balance between that scale and the

scales for other services proposed by the

Commission and already approved. There

would have been no justification for

accepting the other scales and

substantially reducing the attractiveness

of this one. (We have in fact already

had information from Hong Kong that local

reaction is that the Commission's proposals

for the Administrative Service are more

disappointing to officers than those for

other sergices). I attach a statement which

shows the basic salary scale now proposed

compared with the existing scale and the

Commission's proposed scale, and also with

the existing Malayan scale and the

Trusted proposed scale.

6. I am afraid we have taken some time on

this here and, if I ask for an early reply,

you may make the obvious retort.

I risk it.

Yours sincerely,

However