CONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATION
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consolidation. In 1953 the second post-war Salaries Com- mission was appointed, and presented its Report in 1954. Since the Government was unable for a variety of reasons to accept the Commission's recommendations as they stood, Mr. P. C. M. Sedgwick was then appointed to devise a modified scheme of salaries revision into which those of the Commission's recommendations which were otherwise ac- ceptable could be fitted. The Revised Salaries Scheme, as it is known, came into effect in 1955. The Sedgwick Report had purposely left substantially unaltered the salaries for professional, administrative and superscale posts, and in 1956 Mr. W. D. Godsall, C.M.G. conducted a review of these salaries, his conclusions forming the keystone for the new salaries structure derived from the 1953 Salaries Com- mission's Report.
Training. Most departments undertake organized training programmes in order to assist officers to improve their efficiency and to enable them to obtain qualifications which will fit them for promotion to more senior posts. A large part of this instruction is undertaken within the department, either by training on the job or by the establishment of courses of instruction leading to the acquisition of pro- fessional or technical qualifications. Other officers attend courses at institutions in Hong Kong or overseas.
In the Police Force, for example, over 500 Police recruits passed through the Police Training School and assumed full duties as members of the Force. The Medical Depart- ment carries out training courses for nine separate grades, three of which lead to professional qualifications recognized in the United Kingdom. (See Appendix XVII.) For clerical officers there is an annual course of lectures, which was attended in 1957 by 390 officers. Other courses are held in most other departments.
As part of this training programme, 42 locally recruited officers were sent abroad during 1957 on courses of instruc- tion and 30 overseas officers attended courses while on
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