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DESPATCH
[This paragraph should be mailed in the case of more than £500 line of appointments from J. If you are prepared to accept the appointment, you should present yourself to one of the Medical Advisers of this Department, whose names are given on the annexed letter, for the purpose of being medically examined. The letter is to be detached and left with him; and you will be required to pay him a fee of one guinea. He will send his report direct to this Department.
If finally selected for appointment, you will be provided with free passages to the Colony for yourself and your wife, on your signing the usual agreement with the Crown Agents for the Colonies, Downing Street, S.W., by which you will be bound to repay to the Colonial Government the cost of your passage in the event of your relinquishing the appointment within three years of the date of your arrival in the Colony for any other reason than mental or physical infirmity.
You will be entitled to half salary from the date of your embarkation from this country, and to full salary from the date of your arrival in the Colony, if such half salary and full salary respectively will be then available, as to which you may obtain information in this Department.
I am to request that you will inform me of the earliest date at which you will be prepared to leave for the Colony, in order that the necessary communications may be made to the Governor and to the Crown Agents.
I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant,
Course of training at Hong Kong. Before leaving for Hong Kong, it is desirable that you should attend a course of instruction at the London or Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Further instructions will be sent to you on the receipt of your reply.
No. 394 1901 Oct.
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7 NOV 01 (Subject.) Salary & Self. Registration Board
Copy of letter from Postmaster General recommending that salary be allowed to rise to £1440
(Minutes.) Spare prints to literary needed. This is another proof of the inadequate way in which the Germans have dealt with this question of salaries. Mr. Craig's subordinate salaries were entirely omitted from the scheme; the salary of the Secretary to the Sanitary Board was no higher than yours; and the Deputy Superintendent of the Registration Branch was £500.
In affording this increase, it was understood from Mr. ...