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No.231.
Government House
Hong-Kong, 18th June, 1901.
Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your despatch No.145 of 26th April, 1901, regarding certain
salaries proposed to be paid to teachers in the Belilios Public School.
2. As regards paragraph 2 of that despatch, I
have to point out that while the proposed increase in the salaries of the Head Mistress and First Assistant Mistress has
the effect of more than doubling those salaries, the increase
in their emoluments is not relatively so great, when it is remembered that these ladies were drawing $50 and $15 a month
each for house allowance, which will not be drawn under the new
scheme which has been advanced.
3. Including house allowance, the emoluments of
the Head Mistress amounted to $150 a month and those of the
Assistant Mistress to $75 a month. The proposal to increase
these to personal emoluments of $200 and $135 a month with
triennial increments which will ultimately secure to these two
officers a salary of $250 and $175 a month respectively, is
therefore by no means out of the way.
The Right Honourable
4.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.
80.,
&c.,