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(b) that this relationship will not be entered by Hong Kong Government without full prior consultetion with Dockyard authorities *
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I shall be prepared to approve thes. This means that, if the continuance of the practice of paying rehabilitation allowance to Government coolice at artisan rete instead of coolie rate would result in Government coolies receiving greater total emolumenta than Dockyard coolies, further justification will be needed for this than the fact that it has hitherto been the practice to grant this rate, and the present opportunity should be taken to correos tais anomly, If your new proposals are agreed to, I consider, subject to any comments you may have, that effective date should be same as effective date of increases granted to others after August strike, Commission's recommendations being accepted for perică between 1st Junery, 1947 and that date.
Your paragraph 6 Other pointa regarding cost of living allowance. I shall be telegraphing separately about high cost of living allowance, 14. will suffice here to say that for your immediate purposes Commission's proposals for high cost of living allowance, subject to modifications referred to 10 paragraph 2 above, have been accepted as they stand for revised basic salaries up to $1,499 per mensem (approximately £1,125 per arman). Above that point you should not commit yourself unt21 you have seen my separate telegram raferred to above.
40 Your paragraph 8 Time-scales, Soe ng confidential savingram in next air mall which indicates points regarding basic salaries. in addition to administrative scale, on which I still have doubts. I shall be communicating with you shortly in more detail on all these pointa, including administrative scale.
56 Your paragraph 9 telegram No. 1950.
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