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mainly influenced me, is
salary
When I was in
svas
L1000
year
d.
money-question. Singapore my-- with advantages
such as Horse-allowance 4. which Jestimate
as over
of my
-₤100 a year
by more and
the terms
letter of appointment to the post of Registrar at Honghong. I assumed that the
appointment
I then
holding,
average
was a
better one than I was
and that the
about £1200
A
year
salary
would
The proposed change seems to limit
income to £1000
my incon
Adrie
a.
year
while at the
time I find the expense of living here greater than at Singapore and I feel that with a family to provide for at home I _
expenditure within that
could not
limit.
not keep my
Apart from the more
money question I was also influenced in a certain degree by
the consideration of the responsibilities and difficulties attending the holding of the two
posts of Magistrate and Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, at the same time by the same person-for,
however a Man of Mr. May's talent and long experience with the working of the tevo departments might be able to combine the two offices, I see objections which would make such a combination of offices anything but agreeable to me
For the Office of Magistrate, I.__ venture to think I am fitted and I should. be quite willing to agree.
to undertake the-
duties of the Magistrazy in conjunction with some other suitable appointment-compatio..
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