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out that Your Lordship Lordship's predecessor has already taken this view of the matter in dealing with the question of
the thirty five per cent increase of salary.
9.
As Superintendent of the Fire
Brigade I
was
entitled to revit
in contending that where the principle of total unduments is applied whene it is prejudicial to one's interests it
cease to be applicable
does
not
where it happens to operate in one's favour.
11.
There is
more over
au actual
consequence of the increase
Ü
moiety of my salary at
4/2
best in
nade-
to
my salary
Magistrate this privilege
withdrawn from my
to which no
salary
made
or
it
was
Police
wa
Fire Brigade
increase.
was
the express ground that
the total emoluments.
be
of
the individual that should considered rather than the separate.
offices from which they
10.
I
am,
are derived.
I submit, justified
precedent for this treatment of
combined salaries in the case
of the late Mr Bedell Li Yen who
was
art
the Fixed Establishment as
First Interpretes in the Magistracy
and
a✓
ou
the Temporary Establishment Clerk and Interpreter to the
Coroner. Upon his retirement in
October
1887
he
wad
pension
cr
awarded
a
the combined salaries
of Magistracy Interpreter
Coroner's Clark.
12.
in
With regard
and
more over
to the
Lemporary