purely clerical work
of clerks in other Depcertinent We are under the impression that had the Honourable members of the bowmetler
enerous dutico and individually examined our not decided on eval evidence,
their
recommendations have been more commensurate with our
might have been move
laborious employment-
2
In justification of the above expression of opinion we most respectfully beg leave to direct Lordship's consideration to the fact that Wor Your horthcote, who was Patiuacter Geveral for
Acting
was in lugland on years whilst Mr Travers leave of absence, made a report to the Retrenchment bommittee respecting his experience of
experience of the arduous
have reasons nature of Post Office work, and we to believe that fir Sercaube Smith, who also- acted as Vertuadler General for about 3 months, till the return of Mir Travers, likewise made
the favouraḥ
sable report to the Government on same subject.
to
W'e venture to hope that your Lordship
is not adverse to our ma
between Singapore
bosh
caking a comparison and Shan
Stong Kong Post Offices,
Next regards to staff and ther emoluments
at the beginning of lost
of which as reg
are about the
year.
pame at the
We also make bold to state that the
mail matter handled there is not so enormous
AP
that
work that
of
of
staff
Hong Kongand, in consequence, the
is not put to the strain that we are accustomed to here; as Hong Kong being the great entrepôt of the last the number
lines boasters.
of of Mail and becan going steamers and
naturally
create the vast correspondence
Thot
that is handled here. Moreover the
result
187
of
regards
Officers,
the investigation of
tim of the Retrenchment banm cœsion on the shobits bevil Service W was, as the Mortal Service there, the recommendation of the increas
of the staff by 4 more thus
giving Singapore the advarlage over
a trave Camerons ole
Hong Kon of of having a humonto
en
staff and whose emoluments are higher peale than that recommended the Retrenchment Commission.
It is with deference
claims to Port O
Office
eve
a...
daff by
presume to lay
work being
ut wre
arduous
than the clerical work performed by clerks in other Departinents, observing that a great
our work is, physically,
sorting maits for long
of our
deal labour; euch as
manual
hours
at a stretch and that at lines during eight in addition to the day's work; exhaustion from sorting during the summer of inward wants from Europe in the present emall Post Office, which, during such sorting, is closed, and with the entire étaff present, is very
much Graved
and with the heat and dust makes the
atmosphere suffocating
Move over there is no
Department
Sunday Rest in this
fartment as the correspondance arriving out
always heavy,
that
day
is
and it takes the
greater pout of the day of the Officers who allend in order to effectually decaile
deal with the
receipt and distribution of the mails-
The Notinaster-General of the Stranti Settlements in his annual Report for 1894 eventions the hardship experienced by the Wheat Office employees there, and as their case is exactly
similar
in
I
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