Year.
Your
have the honour to be
Sir,
obedient servant
of Alfred E. Postmaster General
444
W: H.
(copal) from
Postmaster General to Acting Colonial Secretary
General Post Office
Hong Kong 14th
With reference
to your
of the 10th instant
on the subject of the annual estimates,
I am unwillingly obliged to ask the permission of His Excellency the Governor to have the following increases being entered for consideration on the draft estimates of this department for 1882.
I have selected only those which appear to be absolutely necessary.
(1) European Staff
$480. per
annum for
extra
marine Officers. The pressing necessity for this allowance has been gone into in my letter of March 14th. I there pointed out that at present there is a saving of $567.7 per annum.
Acting Colonial Secretary