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the appointment of Mr Mok- Man-cheong to be Translator in the Supreme Court.
With reference to the 2nd paragraph in Your Lordship's despatch, it -
appears that the mistake
from the
arose from
fact that
Mr. Mokman-cheong's predecessor drew salary for years before at the
several
annum
rate of $1200 per and that the rate of pay to which Mr. Mokman-cheong
would
would be entitled not having been expressly mentioned to the Registrar of the Dupreme
Court in the communication.
announcing the appointment, the former
was
by inadvertence
permitted to draw the same as his predecessor.
rate of pay
I have however issued
instructions that from the 1st of January last the officer in question is to draw the middle rate of pay $960 per annum;
of
annum, an increase
of
il