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Friday, March 2, 1973

CHINESE VERSION OF REPORT ON TEACHERS' PAY

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The Chinese language version of the report on salary scales for

Certificated Masters was published today and copies will be distributed

to all government primary and secondary schools and the subsidised school

councils. They will also be on sale at the Government Publications Centre

at the Star Ferry Concourse.

When the report was tabled in Legislative Council last month,

the Colonial Secretary, Sir Hugh Norman-Walker, said that the government

would welcome comments from civil service associations and other interested

persons, or groups of persons.

He added that any comments received before March 14 would be

carefully considered before a decision is taken on the recommendations

contained in the report.

A government spokesman said today that it was hoped the appearance

of the Chinese version would help to clarify certain misconceptions with

regard to the position of the Working Group responsible for the study.

He stressed that the group was a completely independent review

body appointed, only after the Senior Civil Service Council had failed

to reach agreement on scales for Certificated Masters.

Its members had previously served on the larger Salaries Commission,

which met in 1971 to consider salaries in the middle ranks of the public service.

The spokesman recalled, that the question of teachers' pay

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from the

had been expressly excluded at the request of the Staff Side

Commission's work, as the matter was then still under negotiation by the

Senior Civil Service Council.

The Council