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for meritorious service, I should find
self
a. J
in
400SE JE
my
position than I have been
20 yea idi
regards salary for
On
over
frau.
which in Hong Kong it is
position I hold.
∙ing pay, barely possible to live
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10%/y
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wa J
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befits the high
sala of 3,001 Rupees, worth then moment
promoted in Ceylon to
Leão a year.
In 1887
ura. J
promoted to
9,000 Rupees worth then
Aid Le a year, and as I have shewn
a
Awo
α
salar
the salary
is
n
و
now
draur in
1898,
with
infinitely heavier duties and responsis is
rth only £804 a year.
my departure from Cylon,
by
10.
Since
Mr. Murray, my junior
the
11.
Ceylon
Public Works of
man
my
years in
partment, has
been promoted to the Office of Colonial Engineer at Singapore
hore on
a
much higher
salary than tha attacked to the Hong Kon appointment. The Office of Assistant Director of Public Works has been created: Ceylon with a salary of 12,000 Rupees, also
worth much
more
than
an
my salary here, appointment I might reasonably have expected to receive had I decided to remain in Cerflon.
of
Leaving all personal matters out consideration, I venture to think that the salary attached to the office hold here is inadequate considering the importance,
I
duties
2.