CONFIDENTIAL
Salary Review
4.
Last year the Hong Kong Government granted increases of salary in all grades in the Civil Service averaging about 8%. As far as we can judge from here these have been accepted as a reasonable award by the Service; no dissatisfaction has been expressed to this Office or to the ODM by expatriate members
of the Service.
Medical Department
5. When Mr. Moreton visited Hong Kong in March the Director of Medical and Health Services, Dr. P. H. Teng, spoke to him
about the number of vacancies impending in the senior posts of his Department and the difficulties which, in correspondence with Dr. Liston, Medical Adviser, ODM, he had been told to expect in filling them. When Mr. Moreton returned we raised these questions with ODM but made little progress. For one thing it is not easy to recruit senior staff for Colonial Medical Service (e.g. from the National Health Service), and in these days almost impossible to find suitable men for transfer between the remaining dependent territories. For another Dr. Teng, in Liston's opinion, is himself causing
difficulties for his expatriate staff by his open determination
that he should be succeeded by another Chinese. One of the two
Deputy Directors at present is a Dr. Choa whom Teng sees as his
successor. But one of the senior posts Dr. Teng wishes to fill
immediately is that of the second Deputy Director and it will be a problem to find a suitable man if he is to be from the
start denied advancement to Director. Dr. Gurd, DMS Fiji, who
would otherwise be very suitable, will not it is considered accept the Deputy's post on this basis.
6.
The Governor knows about this problem and will probably
wish to discuss it in London. But it will clearly not be an
easy matter to handle. In case it should be raised by Dr. Teng
when Sir Leslie Monson meets him, it is suggested that the
Acting Governor might be asked to advise on the line to take.
CONFIDENTIAL
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