Secure the service of other officers of the highest training and experience. Deputy Gov such as Veran Lounit Prines, is prepared to offer bin Ladship a mesmerised salary of 3840 dollars in addition to quarters, free of tax. He asks to request that if it is the opinion of Sir W. Robinson Harcourt, the proposed amount of salary will not be taken to ascertain which of the officers eligible for the appointment would be worth the francout rate of 3/8 to the dollar £704 at 3/8.
2 describes of becoming Candidates. 645 I beg to remind you that the dollar is for purposes of payment in England. Salary of £ pay double on leave and pension on retirement, calculated not at the market rate but at 4/2, and that the most extravagant item of living in Hongkong is house rent, which in this case is provided.