Personnel.—Although circumstances have necessitated considerable changes in the personnel structure, the total Foreign establishment remains tentatively at 17.
The Chinese establishment shows on balance a comparative increase of 2 but retrenchment has been effected in the higher grades.
Pay and Allowances (Increases $831,190).—Of this sum $697,220 is due to provision for high cost of living and rice allowances at the higher- levels recently authorised. Provision has also been included for approved additions to both Foreign and Chinese establishments, for the pay and allowances of employees formerly employed in the Gordon Road Licensing Office as a charge against the Police Section of the budget, for the cost of personnel employed at the Central Parking Space and in the new Voting Section, and for normal increments and promotions in accordance with the Grading Scales.
Passages (Increase $107,980)—The restoration of long leave on a modified basis necessitates appropriate passage provision for the Deputy Treasurer-Revenue and four other employees. Long Leave requirements aggregate four first class and six second class return passages, while retirements necessitate provision for three second class single passages.
It was rumoured that besides the 10000 piculs of rice needed by Shanghai daily, other people had been buying rice here for outports but informed Chinese circles did not belove such rumours, because Settlement authorities are very strict in supervising the export of rice from their boundary,
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