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$5,520.
Now an aggregate salary equivalent, at the present rate of exchange, to something less than one thousand pounds (£1000) in English money.
cannot be deemed excessive for an able and hard-working officer of high character, such as is Mr. Wodehouse; who entered the Hong Kong Civil Service, as a Cadet, by competitive examination and who has since filled in a very satisfactory manner a succession of public posts, during seventeen (17) years, in an unhealthy and depressing climate. Indeed with his abilities, I submit that he should receive $80 per month.
Mr. Wodehouse's abilities, acquirements, energy, and social position, I submit that he might fairly have expected to have already risen still higher in the Colonial Service of the Empire.
Luxdays Mode: 4 of 1868
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It will be seen that the entire control and management of the Fire Brigade at Hongkong are vested, by an act of the local Legislature (duly confirmed by the Queen) in the Governor in Council. This act was passed by one of the ablest of the Governors who have administered the affairs of this Dependency, (the late Sir Richard MacDonnell).