"CIVIL SERVANTS' SALARIES.
Important Recommendations Affecting Hongkong Government Employees.
A careful investigation of the matter showed that the increase in
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1913.
COLONY'S FINANCES.
1012.
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the cost of living since 1002 for interesting Financial Return for officers domiciled in Europe was 21 per cent., a figure which was calculated on a conservative basie.
A most interesting statement Ia view of the above facts and of the affairs of the Colony ap- of the fact that the average rate pears in a financial return for the At the meeting of the Legista of exchange for the payment year 1912, which was laid on the tive Council this afternoon there of salaries on a sterling basis for table at this afternoon's meeting was laid before members, a precis the ten years eading 31st Decem of the Legislative Council.. of correspondence on the subject ber, 1911, was le. 10d., the Revenue totalled $8,180,004.08,
of increases of salary of civil Governor recommended that an showing an increase of $683,- servants.
from let January, 1913, 80 per 462 85 over that of the previous The correspondence deals with cent of sterling salaries, in which year: Licences and internal re- applications for increases of are included dollar salarios with venue amounted to $5,371,419. salary by the following :--- Texobange compensation, should 75; rent of Government property. (1.) Messengers, etc.-House be paid at a fixed rate of exchange Land and Houses, $873,732.50,
Allowances.
of la. Od. and that 20 per cent and Land Sales $163,784.58. (2) Subordinate Officers not be regarded se sterling salary Fees of Court brought in
included in the Grading
Scheme.
Cadet
(3) Subordinate Stuff of the
Post Office. (4.) Officers of tho
Service. (5) Overseers, Public
Department.
Works
(0.) Wardmasters, Medical
partment.
ieu.
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and be paid at the average Hong- kong demand rate from the 15th of the preceding month to the 15th of the month of payment.
$785,584.91. The Post Office con- tributed $101,054.32 and Mia- cellaneous receipts $147,203.40.
Expenditure totalling $7,202, The Secretary of State for the 543.25, included the following Colonies in a despatch under items:-Military Expenditure, date 8th February, 1013, approv- $1,421,352.47. Public Works ed the foregoing proposals subject Department $314,500.06, recur- Do-to their being liable to re-com- rent, $447,636.14 and extra- eideration at the end of every ordinary $1,051,840 43; Pensions three years in view of the $258,439.16. Harbour Master's porsibility that the exchange Department, $207,361.15,
value of the dollar might in the Judicial Departments, $241,508. future rise and remain so high sa 52. and Sanitary Department to make the arrangement a source $324,105.86. of serious embarrassment to the Government. Mr. Harcourt fur
(7) Principal Warders and Warders, Prison Department, (8.) Sanitary Inspectors. (9) Land Bailiff, New Torritor- (10.) Assistant Engineer and Station Ollicor, Fire Brigade.
ther reserved to himself and his (11) Third Interpreter, Supreme
Court.
successors in office the right to (12.) Earopean Police on sterling re-consider the system as soon as solarise and on dollar salariesy steps were taken to place with exchange compensation. either the Chinese or the Hong. (13. Local Officers, on dollar kong currency on a gold basis.
Further extracts made from salaries. (14) Senior Clerk, Audit Do-the correspondence is held over
partment.
The Statement of Assets and i
Liabilities on the 31st Decerater,
Liabilities
1012 is as follow
Ceposits not Availa-
blo
..$223,777.48 3,805 52
ARDATH
High Class Smoking Mixtures.
MILD MEDIUM, SPECIAL
OBTAINED FROM
KRUSE &
PASSENGERS DEPARTED. 8th inst., for San Francisco, Peres, Tonyo Maru, sailed on
&c.:- Adams, Hon. A. Kate, S.
R.
Anthony, A. Bos, de. - Bolden, Mrs. M. 1,913,452.80 Brooks, Mr-and
Mrs. P. R 140,303,70 Brown, Mrs. B.
Barker, S. 633,282.61 Brooks. Mrs. L.
House Service, Crown Agents' Ad-
vances, Postal Agencies in until to-morrow."-
China, Ia presenting tho corres-Overdraft, Bank, pondence, the Colonial. Secretary Overdraft Orown (Mr. A M. Thomson) stated that Those applications pleaded any further information on the
Agents' Current Account,... generally the inadequacy of subject would be given at the salaries on account of the increase Finance Committee meeting to Total Liabilities, ...2,015,582.52 Bonnar, Geo, T. in cost of living and in the case be held after the Council,
(15.) Assistant Masters, Queen's
College.
of salaries on a sterling basis also
on account of the rise in exchange. They were laid before the Gover- nor soon after his arrival in July last and were in due course for- warded to the Secretary of State for the Colonies with certain recommendations set out.
Under the heading of house allowances to messengers, recom. mendations were made, and ap
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
Estimate of Expenditure During
the Present year.
Balance,
Total
Assets
960.32
R. Bilbes, Mr. and
Mrs. W. T Brooks
.2,805,129.79 | Bohusseiries, A. Christensen Mrs
H. C. Chapins, Mrs. Crawley, Muj. &
$5,720,712.31
Subsidiary Coine... $251,583.08
H
Advances Impreit Railway Construc-
***
Mrs. E. Cowles, Mrs. D. Christensen, H.
0.
8,161 00 910.89
tion ...
5,240,535 29 ( hung Unallocated Stores 212,212.47 Cohamond
Cogswell, J. Creary, Miss I. Cox. Geo L. Chormley, Mr. &
Total ...$5,720,712 31
An interesting table was sub proved by the Secretary of State, mitted to the Legislative Counci A statement of Fanded Pablie involving an excoas in the 1913 this afternoon, giving the es-Debt or Loans borrowed for Fixed estimates of $1,248, as also was limate of expenditure on capital Perioda outstanding on the 31st a proposal regarding subordinate account during the year 1913 December, 1912, place the officers not included in the grad-for the British section of the
amount outstanding 1,485, ing Scheme that "the minimum Kowloon-Canton Railway, in 732.16.5 Sterling.
of any
Government employee cluding the main line and the! should not be less than $108 per Fan Ling Branch. Annum. The immediate in.
pay
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Other interesting items in the statement are given.
Wuchang Loan Account 1913
Repayments by Pro-
vincial Govern- ment, (advanced for Railway Con- straction)
་
Mrs. Cadman, P. Corsellis, Cupt- Cook, J, H.
and Mrs,
King, Mr. and Mr. E.L, King, Miss M.
Kwan Tai-kuan King Lau-yen Kobasaani, T. Keeney Mr. and
Mrs. J. A.
Lee, Mrs. C. B. Lupton, Mrs. A. Lee, Judge and
Mrs. T. Laughlin, Mr.
& Mrs. H.
Li, M.
Lo Shea wan Lowell, Mrs N Lowall, A.
Liang, Mrs Lin, Mr. Liang Ting ng Liang Ting-kai Liang Hai-ying Maleholm, Mrs,
G. H. Morrow, Miss
→ M, E.
Munson, S. L. Menger, A, von McKee, J. H. Morimoto, Mrs. Miller, Mrs. E.
B.
Marchand,
Carrigain, L. Miss R. Le, Daw, Miss E. Mand, Miss Dougherty. Mrs. Mckee, Mrs. J.}
JA.
H. Daw, Mrs. G. W. Mitchell, Capt. Dawitt, R.
H. 8. Domingo, N. R. Metcalfe
Mimi, Mrs. G. £770,000 Donahue, C.
Dougherty, J. WJ. Dougherty, Mr. Nunes, A.
and Mrs. C, M." Nation, Miss E.
Y N. Dowling, J. F Total £1,100,000 Donaldson, Miss Nieuwenhuis.
£1,100,000 A
Miss F. J. D. Ehrhard, Mrs. Nicholas, Mrs. Total £1,100,000 | Escota, J. R
9. F. Following is the Statement of Farrar, Mrs, B. Nieborg, H. the Expenditure on Works and Fung Fook-tion Osborne, Mrs. Payments Chargeable to Loan Fung, Miss.
--Brament
Accounts.
Expenditure on
Railway Con- struction from special fund and variousad- vances ultim- ately repayable from the fund up to 31st Dec. 1011, During 1912,
Farrar, Misa A. Fung, Master Fung Fook-tien
MTO. Faulckner, H. L. Fong, T. K Frisbie, F, F, Graham, W. H. Galton Gregg, Miss E. Giletto, Miss D.: $12,021,502.77 Gale, H. D.
1.262,022 51 Gregg, Miss L. Gregg, Dr. and
Mrs D. A..
Mrs. S. L. Groen,, Mrs. H,"
$13,284,425.28 Gilette, Mr. and
The proposed expenditure for crease involved by various pry this year' totale $430.008.30 and posals under this second heading the savings on total estimate will is $11,538; while increases in bo $345.881.13. The principal pay of the subordinate staff of the item of expenditure is one of Post Office will add $2,204 on $150 000, which is made up as
follows:-Kowloon Station Buil-Balance due to Gov- the Estimates for 1913.
The following appears in redling $141.02;1
gang but. gard to officers in receipt of ster-$3,028; Taipo Mrket Station ling salaries or of dollar salaries $4,750 and Sheung Shui Station with exchange compensation $1000. This item shows on Loin
In a despatch under date 22nd excess, when added to the expend- November, 1912, (No. 1), the iture up to December 31 1912, of Governor represented to the Secre$100,000, of $32,905 over the tary of State for the Colonies that original estimate, which was dissatisfaction with existing sala- $310,000. Under the heading of ries was largely due to the highland, it is proposed to spend rate of exchange which hud $5000, but in this case the say supervened upon an undoubted inge on the total estimate of inorenes in the cost of living $2,669.758.45, amounts The main fack to be borne in mind $412,208.00, The saving is due was that the standard of value to the land on Lots 818 & 1140 in the Colony was the Mexican not being debited to railway Dollar and not the English Pound account it being decided to acquire Sterling, that to the former stan- K.M.L.'s Nos. 3, 9, 74 & 75. No. dard local products must conform provision was made in estimate and that these with house rent, for resumption of land for Fan wages, doctors' and dentists' fees, Ling Branch. Expenditure in which never varied with exchan1013 is for strip of land for ge, represented in the case of Manager's House. married officers 66 per cent. and Interesting figures appear un- Advance in the case of bachelors 80 per der the heading of Plant. For cent. of their liabilities.
C. and W. Rolling Stook it is pro The average rate for the year posed to spend $132,310,39, 1902, when the sterling salaries Originally only 8 coaches were Boheme was introduced and double provided. Since then eight more! was have been built, and eight are exchange compensation granted, was 1s. 81. The maxi- on order. Six more are required muir rate of exchange for the for the Fun Ling Branch, not payment of sterling salaries and ipoluded in the estimate, In Mr. A.H. Harris, formerly Hayward, Mrs. dollar. salaries with exchange connection" with this there has Commissioner of Chinese Cus J. W. compensation had been fixed in been an excess expenditure of toms for the Kowloon District, Harris I. F. 1907 at 23.
$235,939.18 over the original passed through on the Devanha, Hoarer The average rates for the years estimate of $309,540.00. Three being accompanied by Mrs. Helen, Mrs. 1908 and following were: 1908 additional locomotives for the Herria. He goes to Shanghai, Hom-you 14. 91; 1909 16. 91; 1910 16. main line, and one for the Fan where he awaits orders, and will 93d; 1911 1s. 91d. The rates for Ling branch, not included in the probably be stationed somewhere
Hay, W. these years had tended to regulate estimate, call for an estimate of in the North, expenditure on the basis more or $57,101.40 increasing the exGERO Jess of a 18. 9d. dollar.
of expenditure over estimate to A schoolboy, aged 18 years,| The rates for the current year $123,104.63.
from 20, Lower Legar Row has were as follows:-January 1s. The total estimate for the rail-reported to the police that whilst 1013 February 18. 111d; March way is $14,000,374.71. To the standing at the door of his house, 1e 1114 April 16. 111d; May 18. end of 1012 the expenditure was a man presented a revolver at 111d; June 28; July 26, August 13,284,425.28 so that with the him and told him to keep quis. 10 1111; September 20; October present year's estimate the The other men then guarded the 28. It would thus be seen that amounts pent on the railway will door, whist the other went into A. Our officers on a sterling salaries had total $13,714,493,58 if the pre- the house. The boy blew a rolce Homes, E suffered a serious loss of purchas seat year's estimate is not px-whistle and the men decamped, Helbrook, ing power
geeded.
taking nothing.
from Loan Fund, £770,000 - ... Advance from General Alc.,
8,034,880.00 W.
Garrard, G. E. 5,249,635.29 George, J.
Gamilton, G. M. Gambits, A. K. Hayward, J. W. Hatrick, R. N. Hoffman Mrs. J.
McK. Osborne, Miss Plummor, T. R. Potter, A. L Potts, Mrs. W.
H, Paine Mrs. H.
S. Peddersen, Miss Patts, W. H., Pollock, F. Prine, Dr. H. 8. Peddersen, Rev.
& Mrs. Read. Miss A,
M.. Raynolds, J. M. Read, W. Rich, J. O. Randolph, Miss
M. F. Rommous Roelli
Shes, L. $13.284,425.28
Mr. A. H. Harris,
Presented a Revolver.
Haoksen, J. B. Jenon, Rey. D
J.
} Scott, H. X, Strong, W. B. Stowart, Mr Strong, F, P.
Mrs. W. A. Saunders, W. Stein, Mrs. A.
W.
Sawyer, Miss K.
A.
Sidebottom. Mrs. A. Small; Miss M. Smith, Miss B Small, Miss F.
Howard, Mr. and
Mies A
MHE. D. Smith, W. C.
Mr. and Haskell, M Hardacher, Mrs, Betchell, Mr. &
Horton, J. Hunder, Miss H. Homes, G S.
W..
Irwin, Col. and
Mrs. J. M. Jeone, Mr. and
Mrs. J. A.
Janes, Mrs. H. Jaffe Mr. and
Mrs. D. Joune, M. Johns, T. J. R. Janss, H. Jaffe, Master, Jeune
C
Jornally, A.
CO.
Taylor, Miss J. Trent, Jutice &
Mrs. G: Trent, G. Towns, G. E. Thompson, L.
· N. Thonias, L. Thorne, Mrs. Wolstel Mr. &.
Mre. Wai Luk-
Chou Wong, T.
Whipple, Miss
. M. E.
Witt, R. de
Wake, C.
Jornally, Missos Walter
Jones, Lt. and Waterbury,
Mrs. B.
Kwong
Kadford, Miss Kurts, Mr. and
Mrs. B. King, G.
Miss M.E. Weinholt, H.
Walter, Rev. &|
Mea,
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