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DRAFT CYPHER TELEGRAM
(iv)
TO GOVERNOR, HONG KONG.
1576
FOR TREASURY CONCURRETICE
INMEDIATE
No........Confidential.
My immediately preceding telegram No.....
Following is revised draft of suggested local
announcement.
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The report of the Hong Kong Salaries Commission
which will be published shortly has been considered by
the 3. of 3. for the Colonies in the light of the
recommendations made by this Goverment. The S. of S.
has now indicated that the recommendations of the Report
relating to salaries and allowances are in general
acceptable.
Further consideration is being given to the scale
for administrative officers and to some other time-scales.
Adjustments in the latter case are likely to be few.
The 5. of S. has agreed in principle to
Commission's proposal that expatriation pay should be
offered as an inducement to qualified officers from
overseas when suitable local officers of required
qualifications are not available, and has accepted the
rates of expatriation pay proposed by the Commission.
The earnings of daily paid workers throughout the
Colony have been increased since the Counission
submitted its report, and this Government has proposed
a modification of the emoluments originally recommended
by the Commission for lower grade monthly paid staff, in
order to reflect these changes. This modification is now
under consideration by the S. of 8. The S. of S. has
agreed that, subject to a decision on this proposed
modification, the Commission's proposals for temporary
high cost of living allowance are acceptable to him as
they
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