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next to myself, the Headmaster of Victoria College, who has not served as long as I have, has a salary exceeding mine by $1320 (one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars), my salary exceeds that of the Second Master of the Victoria College by no more than $120 (one hundred and twenty dollars) a year.
3. I believe that the reasons which induced the Government to increase the salary of every European officer of the Education Department, apply equally to my office, but there are special reasons why, I think, the salary of my office is in justice entitled to revision.
4. When the salary of my office was first fixed, in 1878 or 1879, at the rate of $2400 (two thousand four hundred dollars), the Secretary of State observed, in approving that rate, that he understood it was so fixed because I hold at the same time another office to which an equal salary of $2400 was attached, viz. that of Acting Chinese Secretary to the Governor and Translator to the Colonial Secretary. The latter office was subsequently abolished, and the office of Supervisor of Interpreters and Translator to Supreme Court ($1800 per year) which was then given to me, I resigned in 1882, since which time...
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