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Hon. Colonial Secretary,
As regards the £100 additional. Personally,
I have adjusted ny living expenses to my salary, and a reduction
of £100 in my salary would upset all my present financial
relations to a very considerable extent.
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C.O.D. 164 of 26th. December, 1867, states:-
"I have to carry to you my sanétion of the proposed additional
llowance of £100 a year from the Colonial revenue to Mr.
Mitchell for his increased trouble and responsibility in con- -nection with the new postal arrangements, and the Lords of the Treasury have sanctioned an allowance of £100 a year to him from Imperial Revenues thereby raising his salary as Postmaster-
-General to £1,000 per annus".
In the Blue Book for the year 1871 the then Postmaster-General, Mr. F. W. Mitchell drew the following salary:-
Postmaster-General £900. £100 from Imperial Post Office, and
£200 as collector of stamp revenue making a total of £1,200.
The work at the General Post Office done in 1872 compared to
the work done in 1910 is but a small proportion.
The Postmaster-General has therefore drawn
this extra £100 for 42 years and in accepting such an appoint-
-ment, this allowance might justly and reasonably be taken as
permanent (at least that was my opinion, when I left the Sanitary Department); my chief reason in asking for the appoint-
-ment of Postmaster-General being this extra allowance.)
In the Civil Service List the salary is
$5,400. Remarks...£100 from Imperial Funds.
As regards this question of loss to Hongkong
due to the working of the Postal Agencies in China: I have
done my best for the interests of Hongkong, and I hardly think
that the fruit of my labours, which may have helped to the
successful outcome of this question, should result ik in my
salary being reduced by £100 per annum.
shown as $4,800
As regards the question of extra work,
which
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