You will notice that the dollar
proposed is, with double
salary Cauf
sal at the exact equivalent Exch
a
of the starting pay. This is quit different pyilift to that
the salary
adoftere
in
of the fort which it is protend Mr. Messer; and we really to insist inhon of uniformity
to confer
ought really
Odw
in the
ratio between dollars and sterling.
jh. Kemp is senia
Mr. Messer.
next to
A.F
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I Proceed
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proposed in th
para of hoo Addian's minute but if the afftiment is naked I wowed affrom the dollar & sterling salarie
we
sufficiul
See
26978
No.
Hongkong.
You
292
You
sir,
402
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Government House,"
20 JUL 031
Hongkong, 17th. June, 1903.
14570 with reference to paragraph 6 of my Des-
patch No. 134 of 18th. March and paragraph 2 of my Despatch
DD No. 262 of 22nd. ultimo, I have the honour to inform you that
Dr. Atkinson has now submitted his report on the question of
the clerical staff of the Sanitary Department, and to transmit
herewith a copy thereof for your favourable consideration.
2.
Attached to the Report is a schedule showing
the salaries of the various officers concerned; the names of
those who are on the temporary establishment only are distinguish
-ed by an asterisk.
proposed which
for this minor
post
G. W. J.
24
17
ata
anco
I agree.
3.
Dr. Atkinson recommends that the post of
Head Clerk in the office of the Medical Officer of Health be
abolished, that the pay of the Correspondence Clerk be raised,
and that two junior Clerks be dispensed with and 1 Clerk
in Class VI appointed' in their place. In these recommendations
ن اجمد
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The Correspondence Clerk is a valuable officer who
at present is underpaid as compared with other Clerks of
similar standing in other Departments, and it is important to
RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
80.1
BC ..
&C...
retain