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In submitting this application, asking again for an increase of salary I would ask His Excellency's indulgence to make my case an exceptional one for reasons I beg to explain.
No increment was given to the Marine Surveyor of this department in 1890 when other officers in the Service received an increase of pay varying from 20 per cent to 36 per cent and I would ask to be placed in the same category.
This sub-department was first established in February 1881, and the permanent salary remains the same today as then, while the work done now, with the same assistance is nearly double it was at that time, and increasing year after year on record.
The last twelve months being the largest.
In my petition, which was forwarded to His Excellency the Governor last year, I mentioned that the Marine Surveyor of Singapore received from the Straits Government the same salary as myself, and in addition to this, was allowed to take private work, for which he received a further income of about $80 a month.
The Government Marine Surveyor of Calcutta draws a salary from the Bengal Government of one thousand and thirty-five Rupees a month, and his Assistant's pay is equivalent to my own, while the work done in Hong-Kong far ex-