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office is not sufficiently paid, and that therefore it could not be reduced on opportunity.
As regards Inspectors &c. living expenses &c. are greater in Hong Kong and therefore I should think that a small difference for the better could not be disallowed.
Deputy Superintendent of Police.
Same remarks as in case of Captain Superintendent of Police.
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annex
According to your list the increases if carried out in the case of the offices named herein would amount altogether to $21,090, but if the $6,000 for Registrar General is left out the sum comes to only $15,090.
If savings were made on the other departments (though I have pointed out objections to such course) these would come to over $5,000 without consideration of the Botanical and Afforestation Department.
The total increase would therefore be about $10,000.
This is such a paltry sum that no one can have the slightest hesitation in affirming that the finances of the Colony are in a position even now to justify the increased expenditure.
(Signed) A. M. Thomson,
Acting Treasurer.
20-3-99.
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