despatched, some of which come by almost every mail):
418 muabered despatches were sent to the Secretary of
ctată (in addition t this are the numerous confidential
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however, all interdepartmental communication
bukee dhe fore or minutes on v.b.0. files, the correspondence is
very much greater than the above figures indioute.
it may perhaps be objected to my application that
森 have not yet reached the maximum pay of my appointment and
that therefore my request la premature: but to any such objection
i would reply
(a) that I am confident that this application would have
been made auch sooner, but for the fact that during eight years
there was no officer in substantive occupation of the posts of
Apelotant Colonial Secretary and Clerk of Councila:
(v) that my experience of the department goes back to the
erx of 1899 and that i heve acted in the department at variotim
times, for 15 months in all, before bel
on the 29th. October, 1007:
antively appointed
(c) that i have lost rather than gained pecuniarily by
Before promotion I was drawing my promotion to my prevent post. the maximum pay of Assistant Regi. trab ueneral, $4,200 while occupying free quartere at Telp'o as aseistant Land Officer: I
I sa, therefore, now draw 14,800 per annum without free quarters. de I have to pay house rent in Hongkong relatively not so well off as I was while at Taip'o: and I may add that it does not pay either of the officers at Talp'o to act for me, although sine is on paper a fnd. class and theirs a Srd. clube appointment.
0. In these circumstances I venture to request that the salary of the combined poste of Assistant Colonial Secretary and Clerk of Councile may be fixed at a figure which will se portionate approximate more closely to that of the Assistent Colonial