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Sir,
Enclosure 1.
Harbour Department,
HongKong, 26th February, 1900.
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12540
·24 APR 00
I have the honour to ask that you will
be good enough to assist me in approaching His Excellency the Governor for an increase to my house allowance and also to my selery, which I venture to say are inadequate
to the cost or housing and living in the Colony at
the present time..
Last
August Mr, Meugens and I approached
you on the subject of an increase to our house allowance
In response to our application, which you kindly
recommended for the favourable consideration of His
Excellency, the Honourable the Treasurersaid:-"I quite
sympathise with the applicants, but as it is
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probable that a commission will be appointed shorty to go
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into the question as regards the whole service, perhaps
it would be better to wait.
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As the despatch from the Right Honourable
theSecretary of State for the Colonies has arrived
granting in many cases an increase of salaries but no
increase falls to my lat, most respectfully, beg to say
that I have been in this Department for nearly 12 years
and to my substantive appoitment there has only been
an increase of $35 Rer mensem my present salary being
$1920 per annum with a house allowance of $420, and
I further beg to point out, if I may be permitted to
do so, that in one Government Department an officer
whose length of service does not compare with mine and whose salary is more than one third less is reciving$600
for