CO129-612-3 Police Department- petition from European memebers of Inspectorate 20-7-1949 - 20-1-1950 — Page 3

(a)

(e)

3.

Sub-Inspectors wo are married and

on or near the minimum of the scale can maintain a reasonable standard.

He also assures us that there are no

circumstances in Hong Kong comparable to those referred to in paragraph 199 of the Malayan Salaries Commission.

Mr. Nicholls will presumably take up with the Home Office the request for pension computations for each of the officers concerned.

I have asked the Private Office about the form of the submission to the Palace. E.O.D.No.45 of 1948 prescribes either a formal submission signed by the Secretary of State or a Private Secretary's letter. Mr. Watson tells me the former is practically never used, and suggests a very brief letter from him to Sir Alan Lascelles enclosing an equally brief note of the petitioners' grievances and the reply which it is proposed His Majesty should direct. I am doubtful, however, whether His Majesty would normally direct so detailed a reply as the recommendations at the end of (27) amount to, for with the amendment necessitated by (1). I think perhaps the reply as from His Majesty should be brief and general and that the details might be given by the Kampli- Governor in

I have drafted on these fication lines.

Wilmers

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