landing place
In
rest is, under
summer,
when.
any circumstances,
a
: difficultly, it is seldom possible to sleep before midnight, on account of all the doors being open to the
incessant noise outside.
2.1.
There
are six other
Government Officers, of position who enjoy quarters. These are the Captain Superintendent and Deputy-Superintendent of Police, the Superintendent of the Gaol, the Head and Second Masters of the Central School, and the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital. Now, in all
except the last, I
venture to assert that the necessity
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for resident Officers does not rest on any stronger grounds than in the case of the Post Office. Yet in all six instances the resident Officers
occupy very good quarters, sufficient
for a family,
all more or less on
the hillside, in
airy
and tolerably
secluded situations, and all
absolutely rent free. I believe I am the only Government Officer charged with rent,
my subordinate postmasters at Shanghai and Yokohama enjoying public quarters free.
2.2.
I can discover no
satisfactory
reason for this difference. The
cause has been, as I have
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