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.R. SERPELL, ESQ., OBE.,

TREASURY.

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FURTHER ACTION.

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Dear Mr. Serpell,

This is to confirm our recent telephone

conversation when you agreed to the appointment

of a Trade Union expert as an additional Labour

Officer in Hong Kong, foreshadowed in paragraph

4 of my letter to you of the 18th October.

For the reasons set out in that letter

it has been agreed in principle that the scope

and staff of the Labour Office should be increased

and that it should be separated from the

Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, of which it

is at present a part, and made into a separate

department. The Governor has put forward

proposals for the staffing of the new Labour

Department with which we are in general agreement

but has not yet suggested the salaries that

should be attached to the various posts. He is

he commendatious

sending this to us and as soon as we have them

I will let you have full details of the proposals.

In the meanwhile the Governor has asked for

advance approval of two posts, that of an

additional Labour Officer whose duties will be

primarily those of a

trade tmion Adviser and that

of a Lady Assistant Labour Officer.

first of these two post-

We spoke about the poot of the Trode Unton

Adviser for which it is proposed there should

be a salary scale of £400 to £1200 plus residentia

allowance. This is the ordinary administrative.

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