Secretariat File
No: 4068/46
No: 107.
STAFF
CONFIDENT IAL.
Answt (24 188)
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
Jz September, 1947.
$6.
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Sir,
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Encl. No.1
Encl. No. 2.
(26) on 54226/47 (47)
I have the honour to refer to my telegrams No. 956 and
No. 957 of 6th June, 1947, and to address you on the subject of the
establishment of administrative officers in Hong Kong.
2.
The present approved establishment of 35 cadet officers,
which consists of two superscale posts, six Class I posts and 27
Class II posts, was originally sufficient to provide for a minimum
number of 26 officers always available for duty in the Colony at any
one time, after making provision for stipulated periods of leave and
language study. Recent modifications in conditions of service have
necessitated a recalculation of the leave factor and it is now found
that the approved establishment will normally provide a minimum of 24
officers available for duty. The method of calculation is set out in the
first enclosure to this despatch.
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The number of posts for which provision has been made in
the financial estimates for the current year and to which it was or
has become necessary to appoint Cadet Officers is 31, and it will be
necessary in the very near future to provide Cadet Officers for two new
posts making a total of 33. Details of these posts are shown in the
first schedule of the second enclosure to this despatch. You will
observe that one of the two new posts for which provision is made is
for an officer to be attached to the British Embassy, Nanking. This
proposal was the subject of demi-official correspondence resting with
Mr. Mayle's letter 52246/47 of 12th February, 1947, and Mr. MacDougall's
reply dated 3rd May, 1947, and has been further discussed with the
Embassy with a view to the attachment of Mr. R. J. Minnitt on his
return from leave.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
A. CREECH JONES, M.P.
RECEIVED 16 SEP..4/
C. O. REGY
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