Copy of a Minute by the Acting Postmaster, Shanghai, dated 26th September, 1901.
Postmaster General,
In compliance with your request a statement of the pay of the present staff with proposed pay is attached.
The maximum salaries fixed by the Classification Scheme appear to be sufficient. The Second Clerk and the Marine Officer are however not down for an increase next year. The increments should be annual except in the case of the 1st and 2nd Clerks who draw exchange compensation.
The 4th Clerk is shown in the Scheme as $60 for 1902. He is fully deserving of the rise. He is in the Registration Office and is a very willing and intelligent clerk, who does not require driving but takes much interest in his work by giving voluntarily overtime in order that the deliveries might not be impeded.
He also prepares the Homeward Parcel Bills and packs all the parcels, averaging a dozen boxes each mail, and they are invariably ready and sent off by the first tender on mail day and never clashed with the mail bags going down by the last tender at night. He and the 2nd Clerk are in charge of the Registration Office and, on one occasion, when Mr. Nelson was absent sick for one month he performed the whole of the work, with a little assistance on inwards contract mails, in a very satisfactory manner.
He is the best of the local men, not even excepting the Senior Marine Officer.
I have already reported on the length of service of