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engaged in the Police School and receive respectively 250 and
$40 with compensation per month) I should lose about $25 a
month for four years if the present salary of the Secretary
is not increased. The Unofficial Committee recommended that
the maximum should be reached in 1901 but this has not yet
been put into effect.
2. Increased work. The attached statement
shows that the work of the Secretary owing to recent legisla-
tion has more than doubled since Mr. Duggan left for England,
and this work will be further augmented when the additional
Inspectors from England arrive.
3. Responsibility. $174,569.22 passed through
my account last year.
4. Extract from Sanitary Board Letter, January
6th., 1899. *I am also to add that in the opinion of Mr.
Edward Osborne, the Unofficial Member of the Board, this
salary ($250 - $300 per month) is wholly inadequate to se-
cure a good man for the Office, and does not compare favour-
ably with the salaries paid to gentlemen holding Offices of
similar responsibility in Mercantile Firms.
5. Mr. McCallum's salary was $300 a month
when the cost of living in Hongkong was far cheaper than now,
and in a report relative to his successor which he submitted
on the request of the President he says, "The position and
salary of the Secretary should be such as to command the res-
pect of the public generally and adds that the salary should
be $300 rising to $350 per month.'
6.
Length of Service. I have now had eleven
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