COPY.
Kowloon-Canton Railway.
(British Section).
To the Honourable
The Colonial Secretary.
sir,
C. 0.
453
94
12 AUG 12,
Manager's Office,
Kowloon, 25th. June, 1912.
T
I have the honour to ask for permission to
draw my first increment in November next and to include this additional amount of pay in the Estimate of 1913.
When I first took up my appointment on the Railway I pointed out that the salary offered me as lianager, was rather less than that I was receiving as Deputy Traffic Manager on the Shanghai Nanking Railway, where had I remained I should have been due an increment at the beginning of this year, and it has of course been considerably reduced owing to exchange. I have found since my arrival in Hongkong that the expenses of living are considerably higher than in the North, and I am financially in a worse position than I was when working there. It was not, I am
sure, anticipated that such would be the case, and I take this
opportunity of laying my case before you, as so far as I know it was not decided when I should be allowed to draw my increments,
and that being so I would ask that I might be allowed to draw them annually.
Trusting that this may have your favourable
consideration.
I have etc..
(Sd.) H. P. Winslow,
Manager.
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