ninety thousand dollars per
6. Your Lordship has been pleased
to consider
my
salary,
As a
Fours with that of the Assistant
Master Attendant at Singapore.
That officer
receives
two hundred
dollars a month pay,
twenty five
dollars for measuring ships for
Immigration purposes, and forty dollars
Light Dues from the Baner Rock. total of this hundred and sixty-
five dollars a month.
$90,000
not exact pay
3,320,454
$ 200
25
40
$265
8,160
6,235,546
...
he a year
five dollars a month.
My pay
is ...
dollars a
month,
forty dollars
and twenty
dollars for examinations - a
total of two hundred and twenty dollars a month
at a port where the tonnage is
nearly double that of Singapore;
the figures
in 1889 being,
Singapore
4,934
Singapore, three million, four hundred and twenty thousand, four hundred and fifty four;
Hong Kong,
six million, two hundred and thirty five thousand, five hundred and forty six.
7.
The "raison d'être" of
increase of pay, being the enhanced cost of living
in this
Colony, presses I respectfully submit with official severity
A
European - with
salary.
On my
small
Many of the Eurasian
clerks, will be drawing more than I, the head of the
most paying Department in the
Colony.
Not only will many
Portuguese clerks be receiving
salary than I am, but
Colleagues in my own
Department