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Head 8.- POST OFFICE AND WIRELESS
Head 8.-POST OFFICE AND WIRELESS
(A)-POST OFFICE.
Sub-heads —
1 Personal Emoluments
Other Charges.
Approved Estimate, 1935.
Estimate, 1936.
$
$
$
333,502
325,347
2 Carriage of Mails:-
Transit Charges
3 Cleansing Materials, Utensils and Washing
4 Coolie Hire
5 Incidental Expenses
6 Mail Bags, Parcel Boxes, Date Stamps and Scales
150,000
140,000
(1)
1,200
1,300
(2)
400
400
800
1,000
(2)
4,000
4,000
7 Printing ....
500
500
8 Rent of Branch Offices,.
7,500
7,500
9 Stamps.....
10,000
9,000
(3)
10 Telegrams
600
600
11 Transport
1,200
1,200
12 Uniform and Equipment
8,000
7,500
(4)
Total Other Charges
184,200
173,000
Special Expenditure.
13 Pillar and Letter Boxes
Motor Mail Van.....
500 1,800
500
Total Special Expenditure
Total A-Post Office
2,300
520,002
500
498,847
Personal Emoluments.
NUMBERS,
Details of the foregoing.
1935
1936
1
1
Cadet Officer, Class I, (£1,500 to £1,800 by £50
annually)
26,250
21,600
(4)
Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff:-
1
Chief Accountant, (£820 to £1,050 by 7 of £30 and
1 of £20)
15,750
12,600
(4)
I
Superintendent of Mails, (£600 to £700 by £25
annually)...........
10,500
8,400
Personal Allowance at £50 annually
750
600
}
(4)
Language Allowance ...
330
330
15
6
6
Assistant Superintendents of Mails, (1 at £460 to
£560 by £20 annually, 3 at £250 to £445 by 6 of £15, 2 of £30 and 3 of £15, 2 at $4,000 to $5,000 by $200 annually)
31,300
Language Allowance to 1,.......
27,890 120
(4) (5)
5
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Class I Postal Clerks, ($3,500 to $1,500 by $200
annnally)
20,316
20,333 (6)
10
10
Class II Postal Clerks, ($2,700 to $3,300 by $150
annually)
30,815
31,543
(6)
Do.,
Language Allowance to one,.
240
240
13
13
Class III Postal Clerks, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100
annually)
27,824
28,436 (6)
14
14
Class IV Postal Clerks ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100
and Shroffs,
annually)
23,758
24,320
(6)
Carried forward
187,833
176,412
(1) Considered sufficient.
(3) Decrease in requirements,
(2) Increased postal facilities at Hunghom and Sai
Wan Ho.
(4) Higher rate of exchange.
(5) Stipulated allowance. (6) Stipulated increments.
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