CO129-612-1 Police Department- petition from European memebers of Inspectorate 21-1-1947 - 17-2-1948 — Page 142

Secretariat File No. 183/47c.

No.

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CONFIDENTIAL.

Staff

GOVERNMENT HOUSE

HONG KONG.

31st July, 54247/9/47

1947.

139

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Sir,

With reference to your despatch No. 219 of

27th June, 1947, with which was transmitted a copy of

a petition from eight members of the Hong Kong Polic e

Force, I have the honour to recommend that the

petitioners be informed that in the proceedings of the

Salaries Commission full opportunity for the ventilation

of grievances both on the subject of seniority and on

that of salary has been afforded to the Welfare Committee

of the British Inspectorate as well as to individual

officers. You will doubtless agree that it would be

premature to return any reply to the present peti tioners

which might in any way anticipate the Commission's

recommendations.

2.

In this connection, I invite your attention

54144/33/46(Pt.1 Sir Mark Young's confidential despatches of 4th (1) on 537/2/11/16 September, 1946, and 4th December, 1946. The latter

accompanied a petition on a similar subject and the

substance of your reply in your despatch No.43 of 15th

February, 1947, has been transmitted to the petitioners

concerned. The reference made in paragraph two of your

despatch under reply to "a petition on similar lines,

with which the signatories are understood to be

associated" is not fully understood, but may apply to

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a memorandum dated 29th January, 1947, addressed to the

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

ARTHUR CREECH JONES, M.P.

RECEIVED 8 AUG 947

C. O. REGY