745
Mis
140
well as the tve Assistant Marine Officers. There is at present
ne margin allowed for sudden illness of any of the staff er
providing for the efficient carrying on of the work of the
Post Office during absences from this or any other cause, and
it seems to me thas it is essential that the inadeqancy of
Staff should be remedied.
Ma
12.
Of the 6 clerks, I would recommend
rate
that at least twe should be Englishmen from the G.P.O.Londen,
(Foreign Branch), at a salary of $100 per month to start wit,
rising to $140 per month. House Allowance at the eve of
$30 per month should be granted alse, and a small allowance
as an encouragement to them to learn Chinese. The other for
I am informed en geod authority I could obtain from India.
This recommendation, if approved,would, to a certain extent,
meet the difficulty in the Post Office, of being entirely đe-
pendent on the local employees. The principal duties that I
would assign to the two Englishmen would be to open all mails and to inspect all mails.
leaving the office, and to see to their being in proper order
and condition.
13. As regards the Assistant Marine Of-
ficers, I may mention that ina letter from the Secretary O.P. informed that the P.and
0. London, received yesterday, I was
susly
0. have generably waived the question of payment and under-
takes to convey free of cost the additional Officers requi❤ë
ed to make up the farce of twe serters and twe stampers.