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E. A. Irving, Eso.
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Seiyingpun School,
Hongkong, 7th. March, 1908.
In soector of Schools.
I have the honour to request that you will forward
my application to His Excellency with a recommendation that my present rate of salary (8270 to £330) be augmented, and that I be remunerated at the rate of 8880 to £480.
I append what I consider sufficient grounds for the
revision of the existing scale,
1.
The oresent rate is totally inadeonsbe to maintala a
and family in reasonable confort.
as
The cost of living and the rate of exchange are at
oresent very high, so much so, that £150 in England goes as far as £800 here.
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At the present rate of exchange I am losing about £80
Dec 80nuM.
2.
a.
b.
It is not condensacate with the work demanded,
An Assistant (unmaceled) has been appointed for the
new Yaumati School at £270 per annum and it is only rea-
sonable to excect, that a Head Master, with the respon- sibility of a School, should be on a higher scale, of which an Assistant's maximum, should be a Bead Teacher's
minimun,
The Masters of the two British Schools are on s
scale of 1880 to 6480 together with Free Quarters, and I
em of opinion that the work of an Anglo-Chinese School
is far more arduous, and should, at least, receive
eoulvblent remuneration.
3.
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