427A.
the
Belition Public School it would
to have paid
have been impossible for me
my nay.
It is more than
twelve years
since
the salary of my office não revised; it at the general revision
has
not rained at the
of salaries in 1891.
trevor dox and burtis, holding
similar appointmen to
仑
my
own
at Singapore,
and Penang respectively, have $2,100 per
an num
cach, in addition to free houses,
October last
year.
in connection with the Seareting of
Stêtes recommendation that I hould be given
a
bonus if I proved
a)
11144 satisfaction, locum Oxess, wrote - "Very
satisfactory, I have much pleasure in doing
97
80".
It certainly appears very
anomalous to me, that a
man who is capable of taking charge of the bepartment should be drawing only the same salary
do
some
that
I
and I would respectfully cak may at least, be put upon the same
be permitted, perhaps, to
Я
may
attention to the fact that the thearts Fox and burtis have
I footing.
draw
youn salarico of been raised during the according to the
Department
F
the
kepartment, and
overseers in the Public Worko
little more than
only a
half of what other officers in similar
Straits are drawing.
Another point which I would
positions in
Ai
or
two,
of may
6 Hspectfully ack
you House Allowance.
consider is that
boot
year Colonial Office List.
I have had sole charge of the
on
three vesesions
since
muy appointment, rig: in 1893, for three weeks; in 1894 for three months, and lost yearn for eight months, and I have
to believe that I carried
lucky reason
but
may
duties satisfactorily.
Я
Sir William Robinson on 45
October
The
sum of $30 her mensens
which I am allowed at present does house in the
not permit
to la f
a
no
European part of the town, and I beg to
a Dum
in accordanc
more
house rents
request that
with the prevailing rate of
be allowed me.
House nexto have been going up
in
!