CO129-600-4 Salaries Commission- comments on report 12-10-1947 - 15-12-1947 — Page 62

55

The Church House,

پیارا

#

14/10

6

Great Smith Street,

S.W.1.

14th October, 1947.

3

Dear Wallace,

I have just received the stack of papers re- lating to the Hong Kong Salaries Commission Report,

I and frankly I find it a trifle embarrassing. note the request in the Governor's depatch for an urgent decision; but I hope it will be realised that to study documents of this sort properly takes some time; and that we shall not be expected to repeat what I heard referred to in a meeting with the Secretary of State as the "Harragin Report scandal" with respect to the West African Salaries Report,when advisers were expected to express their views within a time which was quite inadequate, with the unfortunate result that they had no opportunity to study the proposals.

I am, myself, at present deeply immersed in four Parliamentary Bills which I have no doubt you will agree I cannot put aside for any Salary Commission Report; not to mention other vitally urgent constitutional matters.

With previous reports of this sort we have had a summary of the recommendations provided by someone in the Department who has studied the Report, and if there is such a thing extant it would be of great assistance. Indeed, I see no prospect whatever of being able to read right

W.I.J. Wallace, Esq.

/through