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dislocate the whole machinery.
I submit this should not be so the margin
should rather be too wide than too narrow.
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With regard to the wages of the Chinese, $10
a month is a fair wage, and when a few have passed in
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English colloquial and get $2 a month more Ihave no doubt they will become more contented and amenable.
It is very necessary they should live on premises; they are mustered at 7; living at the post Office they are fresher, they eat at their quarters can shift their clothes, have fewer inducements to idle on their rounds,
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are under better control, and numerous other advantages that
it is hardly necessary to recapitulate follow on their being quartered at the office.
The Compradore with 11 years service handling ashe does some $337 000 a year is poorly paid at $40 a month. I very respectfully submit it would be sound policy to pay him $60 a month and the shroffs $30. The cost of living has gone up all round and the Government has recog- nised the fact; the Compradore and Shroffs,in their degree feel the first as much as others and should not be tempted unfairly.
The head messenger whose application marked
Nis attached I respectfully beg to recommend.
He may not have expressed himself well or
given the most plausible reasons but he is a useful and
hard