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The Honourable
The Director of Public Works.
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sir,
479
Hongkong, 1st.August, 1908.
I have the honour to inform you that after
making enquiries I find that my salary of £300 per anmm is a sum on which, as a married man, it is irpossible for me to
live.
The following is a list of places at which
I enquired, and I an given to understand that others are at the
same rate.
1.
2.
Hongkong Hotel £18 for one room on 5th. floor (annex.)
Kingsclere $200 for one room.
3.
Miss Russell's hoarding house on Macdonnell Road
$215 for one room and dressing room.
4.
Claremont Kennedy Road $215.
5.
6, Mountain View. (No accorviodation at present.)
6.
Peak Hotel. (No accommodation at present.)
Cragieburn. (No accommodation.)
On this scale it will leave about $60 to $70 for all incidental
expenses etc.
With your permission ray I request to be
placed on the higher grade of £360 per annum ?
Before leaving England I could obtain very little information from the Colonial Office and I was given to understand that the cost of living in Hongkong was comparatively
cheap.
I certainly thought that the Govern ent
would not offer a salary to a married man if it were impossible
for him to live on it.
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