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reduce the overseas leave for expatriates or increase the leave for locals.
6.
The other main benefits available - medical, educational allowances, and dental - apply equally to locals and expatriates.
The biggest allowance of these is the education allowance and here the locals are at something of a disadvantage because they can only receive the allowance for overseas study if they send their children to the UK. Expatriate officers may receive the allowance as long as they send their children back to their country of origin for schooling.
7.
As regards the section on the employment of foreign nationals as advisors on page 15, I did not think this adds very much.
The comment that the advisors should not be considered as low life may offer some encouragement but the Chinese would not say anything different in writing anyway.
8.One further point of interest on page 9, it is good that the Chinese seem to think that the Governor is able to appoint most senior officers off his own back and that only secretary level appointments, and some others, are reffered to the FCO. This is indeed now the position, but in 1986, which appears to be the reference time frame for this document, it certainly was not.
Mills Stare.
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M V Stone
11 December 1991
CODE 18-77
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