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(cviii) Recommendation that quantity surveyors and land surveyors should be on the same scale as architects

and engineers, (paragraph 117).

(cix) Recommendation that an efficiency bar should replace the present promotion bar between grades III and

II inspectors of works and land bailiffs and senior land bailiffs. (paragraph 118).

(cx) Recommendation that suitably qualified assistant land surveyors should be eligible for promotion to

land surveyors as vacancies occur. (paragraph 120),

(exi) Recommendation that a common scale should be instituted for draughtsmen in all departments. (para.

graph 121).

(cxii) Recommendation that clerks employed by the Kowloon Canton Railway should remain members of the

General Clerical Service. (paragraph 122).

(cxiii) Recommendations regarding mechanical engineers and way and works staff in the Kowloon Canton

Railway. (paragraph 123).

(cxiv) Recommendations regarding Harbour Department staff.

(paragraphs 124 and 128).

(cvx) Recommendation that there should be a common scale for floating staff in all departments, except deck

staff in the Police and Fire Brigade. (paragraph 129).

(cxvi)

Recommendation that telecommunications staff should be graded with corresponding officers in the

Public Works Department. (paragraphs 131 and 132).

(exvii) Recommendations regarding assistant wireless technicians and wireless telegraphists. (paragraphs 132

and 133).

(cxviii)

Recommendation that certain titles in the Air Services Department should be changed to conform with

the nomenclature suggested at a recent Colonial Aviation Conference. (paragraph 134).

(cxix) Recommendations regarding airport staff. (paragraphs 134 to 137).

(cxx)

Recommendation regarding Royal Observatory staff. (paragraph 138).

(cxxi) Recommendation that military personnel seconded to the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps should

draw Army pay and allowances together with inducement pay. (paragraph 139).

(cxxii) Recommendation regarding demarcators and forestry demarcators. (paragraph 140)

(exxiii) Recommendation that solicitors should be given credit for previous experience in the same way as

barristers. (paragraph 141).

(exxiv) Recommendation that qualified social welfare workers should receive the same scales of pay as teachers.

(paragraph 142).

(cxxv) Recommendations regarding staff of the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs and the District Watch Force.

(paragraphs 143 and 144).

(cxxvi)

Recommendations regarding staff of the Labour Office, (paragraph 145).

(cxxvii) Recommendations regarding staff of the Inland Revenue Department. (paragraph 146). (cxxviii) Recommendation that the posts of grade IV foremen in the Sanitary Department should be abolished

(paragraph 147).

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(exxix) Recommendations regarding staff of the Development Secretariat and allied departments. (paragraphs

148 to 151).

(cxxx) Recommendation that overseas officers who have attained the age of forty and have completed ten years

service should serve a tour of three years. (paragraph 154). (exxxi) Recommendation that study leave should be given generously to local officers. (paragraphs 155 and 156). (cxxxii) Recommendation that the sick leave rules should be redrafted to remove possible uncertainty particularly

in the case of officers suffering from tuberculosis, (paragraphs 157 and 158). (exxxiii) Recommendation that officers should be encouraged for health reasons to take the local leave due to

them. (paragraph 159).

(exxxiv) Recommendation that General Order 197(2) should be revised. (paragraph 160).

(cxxxv) Recommendation that expatriate stenographers should be given the same leave and passage privileges

as other expatriate officers. (paragraph 160).

(exxxvi) Recommendation that privilege of free fares to certain destinations in the United Kingdom enjoyed by

Police and Prisons officers should be abolished. (paragraph 160).

(cxxxvii) Recommendation that air travel to or from leave should in normal circumstances be optional. (paragraph

161).

(exxxviii) Recommendation that officers travelling on leave by air should be granted actual time of flight rather

than a standard flight allowance. (paragraph 161).

(cxxxix) Recommendation that officers should qualify for pension not by holding a pensionable post but by

having been appointed "established" Civil Servants. (paragraph 162).

(cxl) Qualified recommendation that Government should have power to call upon officers to retire at 45 and

that officers should have the right of voluntary retirement at or after that age. (paragraph 163). (exli) Recommendation that the possibility of a superannuation scheme for officers at present under Pansion

Regulations C might be investigated. (paragraph 164).

(cxlii) Recommendation that monthly paid staff at present under Pension Regulations C should receive annual retiring allowances at the rates prescribed under Pension Regulations B. (paragraph 165). (cxliii) Recommendation that the previous inquiry into the Widows and Orphans Pension Scheme should be

completed. (paragraph 166),

(cxliv) Recommendation that inquiry should be made into the Colony's training resources. (paragraph 170).

(cxlv) Recommendation that a Public Services Commission should be set up with statutory authority and

specified functions (paragraphs 172 to 174).

(cxlvi) Recommendation regarding membership of the Public Services Commission,

(paragraph 175).