Special Arrangements; and to
Advising on providing
passages to and from Army
Pay for all the Officers
& men sent from this
Colony to that Country
In that case provide
Pay
would
all extra
pay
a Special
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re:
Hong Kong
No 1943
(Subject.)
591
DOMESTIC.
1943
Feb! 31. Jan. 90
Salaries of Postal
Postal agents
at Treaty Ports
agrees that salaries ought to be increased but colonial government ought
to bear the cost.
(Minutes.)
Mr. Grenville Bramston
From par: 6 of the despatch it will be seen that it is proposed to raise the total Salaries of the agents from $2448. to
$3720
an increase of $1272.
Before home
allowances, local labour
and other expenses incurred in connection with the working of the Postal
agencies
Salaries Allowances Incidental 700 1876 6828 1889 9404in addition to extras.
Printing & publishing
on the water
which is more than the
difference effected by calculating the Contribution at 3/2 instead of 4/2. But, however this may be the estimates show that the Postal
including Shanghai cost the Colony
I shall be glad to have