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Audit Clerk, Hong Kong, to the Comptroller and Auditor/general. 446
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closure in
40.
& A.G. 20.
Audit Office,
Hong Kong,
2nd November, 1900.
Sir,
I have the honour to submit, for your favourable
consideration, a request that my salary as clerk in the
Audit Office may be raised.
2.
The salary attached to the post is $80 a month
with Exchange Compensation.
3. When I accepted the post I was quite aware that
the salary was not intended to be sufficient to live on
but that, in addition, an allowance from home of £100 a
year was necessary.
4.
It is well known that the living expenses in the
Colony are increasing year by year, so much so that last
year a memorial, signed by prominent Civil Servants, was
sent to the Secretary of State, with the result that a Comm-
ittee, appointed by the Government to enquire into the
question, practically recommended an increase of salaries
throughout the Services
5. As was pointed out in the memorial above mentioned,
Rent has been doubled, wages to servants has been increased
30 to 35 %, and prices of food stuffs largely went up
between the years 1894 and 1899, and are now very much
higher than in the last named year.
6.. I beg to point out that I find it no longer
possible to live with £100 a year besides my salary, and
£150