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APPENDIX VII.

INDEX OF MAIN DECISIONS AND RECCEND..TIONS.

(1) Decision to ignore questions of departmental

roorganisation, proposals for the creation of now posto and personal grievances. (paragraph 4).

(ii)

Decision to ignore obsolescent scales. (paragraph 4).

(iii) Decision to make no recommendations

(iv)

(v)

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regarding the salaries of certain posts cronted since the reoccupation. (paragraph 4).

Recommendation that in future all salarics and emolumonts should be expresscd in Hong Kong currency. (paragraph 16).

Recommendation that the future salary structure should be built up on the basis of rates of pay applicable to locally recruited staff. (paragraph 17).

(vi) Decision to restrict recommendations to cmoluments of monthly paid staff. (paragraph 18).

(vii)

Recommendation that in future as many as possible of the lower grado staff should bo employed on daily rates of pay but with a guaranteed 30 day month. (paragraph 19).

(viii) Recommendation for an increase of 200%

on lower grado salarios, falling to 30%

on salaries of about $1000 per month and 20% on salarics of about 1500 per month. (paragraph 21).

(ix) Recommendation that officers who do not

benorit immodiately from the revised salarics should be allowed to choose within a certain period whether to remain on their existing conditions of service or to come on to the now scales.

(paragraph 22).

(x) Recommendation that whore suitably

qualified candidates cannot be obtained at the revised ratos proposed owing to temporary scarcity temporary appointments on short term contracts at higher rates should be offered. (paragraph 23).

(xi) Recommendation that Government should

consider and lay down general principles to govern the relation of Deputies and Assistant Heads of Departments to the Hoads of technical departments and to senior professional officers in technical departments. (paragraph 25).