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NOTE

On certain points arising out of Hong Kong

Salaries Commission,

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PARAGRAPHS 24 and 25. Assistant Directors

Directors and Deputy Directors of Departments are normally stationed at Headquarters. In larger Colonies where it is necessary to decentralise responsibilities and it is impracticable to refer all questions to Headquarters, it is the practice to appoint an officer who assumes responsibility for certain questions or problems. The officer appointed for this purpose is generally styled an "Assistant Director". In Nigeria, for instance, this

grade is included in numbers of Departments. I doubt whicther, in the circumstances of Hong Kong, there is any need for such a grade but it could be justified if it

were necessary to appoint an officer to decide questions which need not be referred up to the Hoad or Deputy Head

of a Department.

PARAGRAPHS 41 and 42

Expatriation pay.

The definition of an expatriate officer in Hong Kong will clearly require very careful consideration, and is one

on which we shall have to be guided by the views of the Governor. I cannot understand why, in view of para. 42 (1)

Indian Officers of the Hong Kong Police or Chinese mombers of the Hong Kong Polido, serving in the Shantung Contingent,

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should be treated as cpatriate officunq.,

PARAGRAPH 54 Acting Allowances.

The type of case noted, i.c. the case of a

subordinate, or as might be termed a "non-Commissioned

grade officer," acting for an officer in a superior

peat,