HONG KONG
No. 34159
(Subject.)
C.O.
107
DOMESTIC.
34159
RECO
Reel C109
Agent
1899
Dev
7
Previous Paper.
25037
File returned. 2 Jan 1900
House Rent, Cost of living be
Requests increase
with petition & Dockyard
Increase
Sur. Hamilton
Y salary
(Minutes.)
Comme
? Send Admiralty in reply
writers for
Set. Blake's Despatch 23176, with a
copy of
the Sub Enclosure
9 say
that in convoy
of
End: thereto, (without the names) & a
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29920-6000-2-1
the facts set out in that Despatch In Chamberlain
majesty
has signified his approval of a substantial increase of Salary being granted to the members of the govt service, which it is proposed should
Salaries, take the form of Increments.
subsequent Paper result in
Admy
23933
(the memorialists secretly ask for increments).
& should
an increase of roughly speaking from
10 to 25p. cent on existing rates of Salaries,
TCM 1/12 9.7.0