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(xxxiii) Recommendation that expatriate women officers should receive expatriation pay at the same rates aš

male officers. (paragraph 43).

(xxxiv) Recommendation that in general allowances should be prescribed only in respect of reimbursable expendi- ture incurred in the performance of duty, of duties extraneous to normal duties and of special risks, (paragraph 44).

(xxxv) Recommendation that the privilege enjoyed by certain officers of occupying Government quarters free

of charge should cease. (paragraph 45),

(xxxvi) Recommendation that rent allowances should be abolished. (paragraph 45).

(xxxvii) Recommendation that house allowance should no longer be treated as part of pensionable emoluments.

(paragraph 46).

(xxxviii) Recommendation that revised basic salaries should include addition of one sixth in lieu of quarters or

house allowance. (paragraph 46).

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(xxxix) Recommendation that where officers are provided with Government quarters an economic rent not exceed-

ing 16.2/3% of an officer's salary should be charged, subject to certain "ceilings". (paragraph 46). (x)) Recommendation that where officers are required in connexion with their duties to live in self-contained Government quarters the rent deduction should be appropriately reduced, (paragraph 46). Recommendation that where local married officers are required to live communally in barracks or coolie

quarters, the deduction for rent should be of a nominal percentage only. (paragraph 46). (xlii) Recommendation that if rents for appropriate accommodation advance beyond one sixth of an officer's

salary an appropriate adjustment should be made in the cost of living allowance. (paragraph 46). (xliii) Recommendation that Government should build or acquire quarters where it is advantageous for the staff of particular departments to be housed in the vicinity of their work. (paragraph 47). (xliv) Recommendation that Government should, in view of the shortage of European style houses, continue

as far as possible to provide quarters for expatriate officers. (paragraph 47).

(xlv) Recommendation that language allowance should be abolished. (paragraph 48).

(xlvi) Recommendation that fuel and light allowances or the provision of free fuel and light should cease except in the case of officers who are required to live in communal barrack accommodation. (paragraph 48)

(xlvii) Recommendation that hardlying allowance should be abolished. (paragraph 50).

(xlviii) Recommendation that the scale of field allowance and conditions under which it is granted should be revised and that in future field allowance should be redesigned to cover the additional cost of food while an officer is compelled to sleep away from his headquarters. (paragraph 51).

(xlix) Recommendation that a lodging allowance should be payable to officers who are compelled to pay for

overnight accommodation while on duty. (paragraph 51).

(1) Recommendation that boot allowance should be abolished and an issue from Government Stores substi-

tuted. (paragraph 52).

(li) Recommendation that funds should be provided for official entertainment from which officers can be

reimbursed for approved expenditure. (paragraph 53).

(lii) Recommendation that charge allowances should be abolished. (paragraph 54).

(liii) Recommendation that specific rates of acting pay should be laid down to cover cases where an officer in a lower grade acts in a higher grade but is at present ineligible for acting pay under General Order 90(2)(a). (paragraph 54),

(liv) Recommendation that non pensionable headmaster's and headmistress's allowances should be paid.

(paragraph 55).

(lv) Recommendation that non pensionable allowance should be paid to Tutor Sisters. (paragraph 56). (lvi) Recommendation that the rules governing the payment of overtime and the rates of overtime should be

revised. (paragraph 57).

(lvii) Recommendation that officers receiving Chinese New Year bonus should not be excluded from receiving

overtime. (paragraph 58).

{lviii) Recommendation that officers on duty or study leave in the United Kingdom should receive subsistence allowance and travelling expenses at the rates applicable to officers in the United Kingdom Civil Service. (paragraph 59).

(lix) Recommendation that medal allowances should be abolished. (paragraph 60),

(lx) Recommendation that good conduct allowance should be payable in certain circumstances to Police

Officers up to the rank of sergeant. (paragraph 62).

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(lxi) Recommendation that drill instructors allowance should be abolished. (paragraph 63).

(Ixii) Recommendation that technician's allowance should be paid to members of the Police Force up to the rank of sergeant and to uniformed officers of comparable rank in certain other departments. (paragraph 63).

(lxiii) Recommendation that detective allowance should be retained for the Detective Branch of the Police in

addition to a varying allowance in lieu of uniform. (paragraph 63).

(lxiv) Recommendation that the payment of outfit allowance to overseas officers should be discontinued but

that reasonable advances against salary should be made. (paragraph 64).

(lxv) Recommendation that family or children's allowance should form a part not of permanent emoluments,

but of high cost of living allowance. (paragraphs 65 and 68).

(lxvi) Recommendation that Government should consider the provision of free primary education for the child- ren of all permanent Hong Kong residents and of generous assistance towards the secondary education of such children. (paragraph 67).

(lxvii) Recommendation that a bonus or honorarium should be paid to certain specialist medical officers for

consultative work. (paragraph 69).

(lxviii) Recommendation that payments to staff of the Education Department for evening work should bẹ

reconsidered. (paragraph 70).