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of the
Assistant Pfle
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quarters
best
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the
for the fost; and I
thank the foot should be
created.
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As the present Assistant Land
Afiaer gets $600.
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12/7
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$3000
* $3600 as
proposed by
lun
Fiddian
pechafer the sterling
Salary
sumed
be fixed at.
£440
which
Assiafants
500
the sterling salay attriked to the pook of the existing,
Officer.
A
See also
g. W. J. 2017 C.PL 25
atance
26967
No.303.
Honghone.
Rece
0.
484
Juve, 1903.
Sir,
4233
20 JUL 03
Government House,
Hong Kong, 19th June, 1903.
Referring to the 6th paragraph of my despatch
No. 1 of 2nd January last I have the honour to inform you that in
pursuance of the policy laid down by you, in which I entirely agree,
that the New Territory should be administered from Hongkong. I have
decided that the registration of titles to land in the New Territory
should be placed under the Land Officer in BongKong.
2.
The Land Officer is prepared to undertake the
additional work involved, but he has represented, in a letter of
which I enclose a copy, that he will require an Assistant Land
Officer to take charge of a branch Land Office at Taipo in the New
Territories. To this new post Mr. Bruce Shepherd asks that Mr.
Messer, the senior passed cadet, be appointed. Mr. Messer was
appointed a cadet in 1897 and has as yet received no substantive
post. He was employed for a considerable time in connection with the registration of claims to land in the New Territory, and he made
the rough rent-roll upon which crown rent in the New Territory hes up to the present been collected. He has therefore had experience in the work that is to be done, and he has also some knowledge of
surveying, which will be useful. I have therefore to recommend
that provision be made in the Estimates for 1904 for an Assistant Land Officer for the New Territory and that the salary be fixed at
$3600 rising to $4200 by $300 triennially, with $30 a month
RIGHT HONOURABLE
travelling
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
&C...
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80+.