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We submit that a bachelor Government servant cannot live and hope to save anything for his passage home under $300 a month, while a married Civil servant of necessity requires much more. As it is a Junior Assistant is receiving less than $200 a month. Thus not only is an unfair bar put upon marriage but the Civil Servants have to eke out the means of livelihood from private sources. Most of the large Hongs and Business firms in the Colony have made allowance in the shape of bonus, compensation, or some form of immediate relief for circumstances which are entirely exceptional and which if unrelieved will become intolerable.
We have, etc.
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