10/-
7/6
a
note
of
day respectively then
k
The salary is
to cover
expenses in Hongkong & Kowloon.
living expenses
I think that the Consolidated
allowances
to
include
travelling expenses &
House allowance.
nothing to show that
they were
intended to mislead
On the other hand
there was
No.
218.
Hongkong.
The action
reason
that
house
allowance should be given
the Colonial Govt on small net basis the house supplied reasonable should
charging
the
cost of
thoroughly
furnished!
As to para 6, if
such leave he is
on duty-as actually serving on
perfectly
clear if
duty
he is absent from
any day (except Sundays) he loses the allowance for that day
now
that the
as to para from inquiry to pay
other offices
have been
not for the Govt quarters they
Then is
all the less
Int Eves, the Storekeeper
Authority
reason for granting the Asst Engineer
Kowloon house allowance
27/9
Pr. 1/10
Confidential.
My Lord,
33846
0212 07
Government House,
277
Hongkong, 22nd August, 1907.
I have the honour to lay the
following matters before Your Lordship and to request your
instructions upon them.
2.
The Senior Engineering Staff of
the Kowloon-Canton Railway are serving upon Agreements
drawn up by the Crown Agents in which a certain rate of
pay is fixed in each case, and in addition Messrs. Eves,
Logan, Valpy, and Steen are granted a "Consolidated Allow-
-ance" at a specified rate "which shall include travelling
expenses of every kind incurred in the performance of
their duties". (see copy enclosed.) It is not clear
whether this phraseology was intended to embrace any other
possible claims all of which were to be "Consolidated" and
of which travelling allowance was only one, or whether it
was intended to refer solely to the latter in which case a
"fixed travelling allowance" would appear to have been a
more suitable term than "Consolidated Allowance"
RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,
3.
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