OUTWARD TELEGRAM
FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES
53723/47 Part II
Cypher (0.T.P.)
TO HONG KONG (Sir A. Grantham)
Sent 30th December, 1947.
00,30 brs.
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IMMEDIATE Confidential
No. 1976
Addressed to Governor, Hong Kong. Repeated to Governor-General, Melaya
(at Singapore). No. 800. pass copy to Governor, Singapore, No. 1327).
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Go Governor, Malayan Union, No. 167.
In repres This pare see (178) бы
Your telegrams Nos. 1876 and 1879,
Hong Kong Salaries Commission.
Your paragraphs 2 and 3. Expatriation pay. I have not yet received Malayan viers on your suggested compromise for expatctution pay on salaries over £300 per anna. If Malaya see no serious objection, I feel your compromiso proposal should be adopted.
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New proposal regarding cost of living allowance of lower grades. Your Serigram No. 86 has just arrived. I had not previously ecen tema of strike settlement in respect of Government daily paid labour. If you are in a position to give me an assurance
(a) that your present proposals would role in total emoluments of Government monthly paid minor stats becoming substantially the same as total emoluments of comparable Javal Dockyard staff, 1.0. Ohat there will be no need for consequential increases in Dockyard wages aná
/(b).
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