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Allowance hold & good in Hongkong inly gain no benefit there from either on leave or When I draw my pension, whereas the house- allowance that the masters of the Jueen $52 College usech to
was incorporated into Will Salaries years ago, I believe, and shus there they gain a great addend age sore me so that petit-only.
I need not point out to you, Right Honourable Sir, that I am as much affected by the great
increase in prices of house rent and Other things in Hongkong
Hongkong as they are, and as I have a daughter at school in England to provide for, it is a great-struggle for me with the dollar at so Row a rate as it has
been for a long time and still is, to meet my expensels. I pray therefore that it
bit may
ronny please you, Night Honourable Sir to at least gourmet- that my house allowance shall be incorporated in my salary, so that I may get the compen sellin Allowance ton that, if it does not seem in your power to grant me any further advance Whick, however, I pray you may; am the sessive that I may be put on a par dévesh Assistant masters at Jueen's College, as I have now served the Government for nearly since the honour to be
years
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Right Honourable Sir
Mostobedient servant with Annie Baleman,
hool for
body