with the exception of
house rent is less
than in most other colaies!
so than
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Micers imparts favourably with that in most other parts of the Empire
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CONFIDENTIA L.
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RES 12 AUG 06
Government House,
Hongkong, 13th. July, 1906.
miofficial mentes, if he wishes,
that
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under section II glue R.1.
1.1888.
right pub
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suggested without the for's penissing
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result as it is undesirable that unofficial
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members to should be sucorsaged.
to interface between the forfaits servants.
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prints, except tot I
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reply. Mt. 18/0
Draft for consideration on the maited parts of M. Stulbi minute C.PL. 20
at once.
My Lord,
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Referring to my telegram of the 14th. and to
Your Lordship's of the 19th. May on the subject of relief
to Government servants on account of the rise in silver
seriously affecting sterling salaries, of which telegrams I
enclose copies for convenience of reference, I have the
honour to point out that prison warders, subordinate police
officers and persons of similar salary and status with re-
gard to whose relief Your Lordship is prepared to consider
proposals are not the persons most affected by the present
state of affairs. They are provided with Government quart-
ers
1
fuel and light, whereas rent is a very heavy item
of
local expenditure on the part of persons for whom no such
provision is made, and a great proportion are also unmar-
ried and live in messes, an arrangement which greatly row
duces the necessary cost of living. It is the class above
these such as schoolmasters and the junior European offi-
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.
&
&C.
80.
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