Public Works Department, praying for promotion in another Colony.
2.
6162 Malsch is at
present in receipt of salary
at the rate of $2,400 per
annunIL
with
an allowance
of $360 a year for rent. These
are
house
the maximum
emolumento attached to his
appointment.
3.
The reasons
for
which this officer wishes to
leave Hong Kong
are the increase
in cost of living, and the
great
rise in rents.
This
case,
266
I would
point out to Your Lordship,
is
only one of many, illustrating the urgent necessity for
general inercase
of
the
salaries
recommended to your favourable
consideration in my despatch the 21st of Vorember
N:826 of the 21st,
You
2585088
6th Feby. 1889.
last.
J.
I enclose a copy of a
closure & letter from $129. M. Price, the Surveyor General, testifying to Mr Malich's good condust -
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great
and