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No.51.
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RECO
Peo? 20 MAY 00
General Post Office,
Hongkong, 12th. April, 1900.
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Sir
I have the honour, most respectfully, to ask that
His Excellency the Governor will be pleased to consider my
application to be allowed the approved incremental increase to
salaries in my office as Assistant Postmaster General, under
the power given His Excellency in paragraph 11 of the Secre-
tary of State's Despatch No. 280 of the 8th. December 1899,
which reads "subject to any modifications which you may suggest
in particular cases".
As respectfully pointed out in a letter, addressed.
to the Honourable the Colonial Secretary, dated the 13th.
June last, my position in Hongkong is a worse one than the
one I ras promoted from, and I then asked to be allowed House
Rent.
Time has certainly not diminished the accuracy of
my statements. I would, therefore, earnestly ask that the
circumstances of my case be favourably considered, and that I be allowed the first incremental rise of salary as from the
1st of January 1900. To postpone it for three years will cerTM-
tainly not be affording me the relief then immediately esked
for, and which I am led to believe, His Excellency the Gover- nor proposed to consider, when the whole matter regarding the application from the service generally for increase of salari-
es had been decided by the Right Honourable the Secretary of
State for the Colonies.
The Honourable
The Colonial Secretary
800.
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