CO129-607-5 Police Department- Indian Section 8-1-1946 - 15-9-1947 — Page 127

Tel. No.: Whitehall 1234

NATIONAL

EN FOR

SCHEME

DISABLED

Your Reference 5444/3

Treasury Reference S.52892/05

TREASURY CHAMBERS,

GREAT GEORGE STREET,

LONDON, S.W.1.

125

10th July, 1946.

Dear Humphrey,

·25

I refer to your letter of 28th June enclosing Hong Kong telegram No.432 giving the estimated cost of the new proposals for the pay and allowances of the Indian Section of the Police Force.

It was not clear from your letter what rates of pay were proposed for the Indians or how these compared with those already sanctioned for the Chinese. But I gather that it is proposed to pay the Chinese and the Indians the same salaries and allowances, while the Indians are to receive free rations in addition, Formerly, I think, the Indians were to receive a lower scale of pay owing to the supply of free rations, and I am afraid we cannot agree to the new proposal until a reasoned case is made out for the relatively more favourable treatment of the Indians. I should also be grateful if you would explain why the present estimated cost for 300 Indians (8521.060) is more than four times the estimate (? for 320) of $120.738 given in Howitt's letter of 23rd April (54144/46)

RECEIVED

12 JUL1946

C. O. REG

Yours sincerely,

MrJames

A.H. Humphrey, Esq.

Colonial Office.