Reception bureaux have been estab-shed by the authorities in Chung~ king and Kunming for returned overseas Chinese youths. They serve guide service for them. The Ministry of Education is said to have notified all schools that such youth should be given easier entrance ox-aminations.. Guide books have been printed for them and special lasses Ihave been opened for them.
Mr, Vu has visited the Strait Settle ments and at the time of writing the report in Hongkong, he was about to Teuve for Macao, from whence he will go to Manila. Malaya, Burma, India and even Australia i time allows. ed, He hag been taking an inspection trip among overseas Chinese schools. boral a basis. It wae computed that with charges on a basis of a maximum fare of 15 cento per mile the company would be able to pay a8 per cent. royalty to the Council, make {fair provision for renewals ahd pro= vide a reasonable dividend for its shareholders, The Comunitles made 'a recommendation accordingly and also recommended that adjustments be made in the mileage fees payable by the omnibus company. and in the royalty pald by the Shanghai Electric Construction Go. Lid. in respect of its Rallless Car' services, lace the two companies on a. re~ Tatively equal basis as regards both royalty and mileage fees.
"These recommendations were endorsed by the Council and have been accepted by the two companies, S.M.C. Revise Cost Of Living Rates uty 12
Towards the end of June the Shanghai Municipal Council instruct-its Staff Committee to consider whether it is possible to devise a system to provide a permanent basis for the regular adjustment of allow-Jances necessitated by changes in the cost of living, Meanwhile temporary allowances were given for the months of May and June and the Shanghai Municipal Couneit announced that the beneath of any new basis adopted would be given to its staff relrospeclively from May 1.
The Staff Committee considered it necessary to seek a solution of its Problem by appointing groups of its own members to examine the position each month. From the accumulated experience of these groups, and from their monthly recommen-@ations a satisfactory formula for re-fater. gular adjustments may" be found
'The first such examination covered May, June and July' allowances and the ' recommendations of the Staff Committee approved by Council in meeting on July 9 were—
Recommendations Chinese Employees not serving under Lelters of Appointment:— sist $200 at 195 per cent., over 168 per cent, Aunum allowance 1 hok cents Minti alls: nes et $200 9t 198 per cent, over ist $20 at 100 por cent. over "bet cents Hrnuum aloivancs Foreign Employees; and Chinese Letters of go00"24 105 per cent, over $1,000 St 133 May:—Ist $600 at 300 per cent, 2 per ent, over $1,090 $800 at 395 per. cent.
"uly: mtst $500 at 200 per cent, pee cent, over 00 cent.
Tu respect of Class employees who Pay, the above Jcomputed on two-thirds of their monthly pay.
These seales of allowances fully maintain the Council's previously Jadopted principle of affording a higher percentage adjustment the Hower an employee's pay. The award fof these allowances will enable all the lower paid Chinese staff to main" tain approximately the same standard lof living which they were enjoying last December, but all the rest of the staff, Chinese and foreign, according to their salaries, are compensated for halt or less than halt ff the increase in cost of living which has occurred since that month. The reduction in the allowance payable for July to Chinese stof not serving lurider letters of appointment reflects 1 reduction in the cost of living between May and June, the Staff Committee having used one month's cost of living index to guide them in the ing of the next month's allowance,
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