No.
194.
Hongkong.
enclosure 1. 4th 25th 2- bruary 1903. atb
C.O.
17001
9
!! MAY OF
Government House,
Hongkong, 9th. April, 1903.
sir,
I have the honour to transmit for your
consideration the enclosed Petitions from (1) Chinese Members
of the Subordinate Civil Service, and (2) Portuguese and
certain other Subordinate Members of the Service, in which
the petitioners ask for increases of salary or such relief as
may compensate them for the depreciation in the local purchas-
ing-power of their dollar salaries.
2.
I transmit herewith two schedules showing
what salaries were attached in 1898 to the offices now held by
the petitioners, and what salaries are provided at the present
time. They reveal the fact that in nearly every case substanti-
al increases in salary have been granted during the last five
Enclosure 2.
Enclosure 3.
years
I also enclose a Memorandum on the increases in
salaries of Subordinate Officers granted since 1898.
3.
I have no reason to doubt that the Sub-
ordinate Members of this Civil Service are receiving fair
rates of salary at present, especially when it is remembered
that the pension and leave privileges are more substantial
and openings for promotion generally more numerous in the
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
Government Service than elsewhere. Where in some few cases
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
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