CO129-599-2 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949 — Page 51

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whose present salary appears to us to be low in relation to his responsibilities.

Imports and Exports Department.

10.

We have recommended for the staff of the Imports and Exports Department scales similar to those for the Police Force. In the lower ranks this involves the grading of Chinese revenue officers with Police constables and of senior Chinese revenue officers with Police Corporals. On entry there should be an initial training period of one year as a recruit. In place of special grade revenue officers we recommend the recruitment of assistant revenue officers on a scale similar to that for sub-inspectors, Crade II. For this grade, candidates should have the same qualifications as candidates for Police sub-inspectorships. If it is not possible to absorb the present special grade revenue officers into ts new rade, we suggest that serving officers should be given the same salaries as police scrgeants and that no further recruitment to the special grade should take place. For revenue officers we recommend the same scale as for Police sub-inspectors grade I but consider that after passing an efficiency bar botwoon $7200 per annum and 7680 per annum, they should proceed on the scale to 89600. From this point promotion to senior revenue officer on the scale 10,080 per annum to 12,480 per annum should be dependent upon vacancies. We understand that the salary scale of the Chief Preventive Officer was specially designed for a previous holder of this post and we recommend that in future the Chief Preventive Officer should receive the same rates of pay as a Chief Inspector of Police. For the Government Chemist (Monopoly) and the Assistant Government Chomist (Monopoly), we favour the same scales as for the Government Chemist and Assistant Government Chemist in the Medical Department.

Medical Department.

105.

We recommend a ten year scale for assistant medical officers who will be expected on first appointment to have had at least two years experience as a houseman in a Goverment Hospital or to have served an apprenticeship under a private practitioner of the kind that is recommended in the Spons Report, on the Remuneration of General Practitioners. An efficiency bar will operate betw.on the grades of assistent medical officer and medical officer. Direct entrants to the grade of medical officers will be espected to have obtained additional qualifications or to have had experience of special value. We propose that assistant medical officers who have obtained such additional qualifications or have had experience of special valus and who show outstanding ability should be promoted to le medical officer grade before reaching the maximum of the assistant medical officerrado. We recomend an effidency bar on the scale for medical officers between $17,040 per annum and 17,760 per annum. We propose that there should be similar arrangements for women assistant medical officers and for women medical officers and have recommended for women doctors 80, of the scale applicable to male doctors, We are of the opinion that the number of specialist appointments should be increased.

106.

We consider that the nursing service in Hong Kong has in the past been seriously underpaid and we recommend substantial increases, We propose a four year training

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