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or to remain on salary and conditions of service which admittedly
require radical revision; otherwise no arrears of salary can be
authorized. That a number of Police Officers were in such urgent
need of funds to meet their obligations that they had no alterna-
tive but to sign Fori
C.
4. That Your Petitioners fully support the opening sentence
of paragraph 89 of the Salaries Report namely; -
"A well organised, adequately paid and contented Police
Force is a pre-requisite to law and order and to good
administration "
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5. That the Salaries Report is a long document full of
detail and with deference
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is not easily understood by the
average Government Servant ; furthermore many recommendations
are made which involve drastic changes in the allowances and
perquisites which Police Officers enjoyed in the past and which
it is submitted are not adequately compensated in the new scale
and conditions •
6. That Your Petitioners submit that no adequate compensa-
tion has been made for the stoppage of
(a) Free furnished quarters
•
(b)
Free fuel and light
(c)
Cruising launch allowance
(a) Hard lying allowance for certain officers in
the New Territories
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7. That a Comparative Table of monthly salaries and usual
allowances calculated in dollars for 1941, 1946 and 1948 includ-
ing, Maximum Ex-Patriation and High Cost of Living Allowances
(but excluding Further Language and Hardlying Allowances as these
were not drawn by all officers) is attached here to marked
•
"Schedule A 12 That the proposed new scales shows the following
increases and percentages over the 1941 scale.
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