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Minute by the Harbour Master,
Hon. Colonial Secretary,
Submitted. I sincerely hope that these officers will now be granted a substantial increase. I believe there are no harder worked officers in the Government Service.
Reference is made by them to the pay of the similar posts at Calcutta where the surveyor gets Rs.1,000 a month and the 2nd surveyor Rs. 500, to this I have to add that the foreign trade tonnage of all British India Ports in 1896 was 8,220,150 tons while Hong Kong's foreign trade tonnage in European constructed vessels was 8,971,452.
(Sgd.) R. Murray Rumsey,
17.11.97.
Harbour Master.