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Mr. Christofas

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The salary of the Governor of Hong Kong

was increased in 1966(?) in order to maintain

That

an adequate differential over that paid to the

next most highly paid officer.

differential has now been eroded by devaluation.

If Governors' salaries are to be expressed in

terms of local currencies and the Governor of

Hong Kong's salary is then expressed in terms

of the Hong Kong dollars it was worth pre-

devaluation (i.e. H.K. $144,000 a year

approximately), no further adjustment will be

necessary at the present time.

2. I cannot conceive that in the foreseeable

future we shall need to ask the Treasury for an

increase payable from U.K. funds in the case of

the Governor Hong Kong. There has never been

any difficulty in getting the Colony to pay an

appropriate level of emoluments for this office.

26 March, 1968

(W. S. Carter)

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