352
347-
(a). Single exchange compensation equivalent to about
30 40% of salary, 1894.
(b). Double exchange compensation, equivalent to about
60
-
90% of salary, 1901.
(c). General increase, 1901.
(d). Rule of payment of sterling salaries when the
rate of exchange is at, above or below 2/- to the
dollar, 1907.
(e). Duty pay to sterling posts to which cadets have a
preferential claim, and to engineering staff of
the Public Works Department (with possible exten-
sion to other offices), 1911.
(f). Free passage scheme to subordinate officers, 1911.
9.
While fully recognising the necessity for these
various measures for the betterment of the conditions of
service of their brother officers, your Petitioners venture
to submit that the need for some relief exists equally in
their cas0 .
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray
that Your Excellency may be graciously
pleased to recommend to His Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the
Colonies the grant to them of a general
increase of salaries, or, in the alter-
native, such other measure of relief
as the present enhanced cost of living
and other considerations may seem to
justify.
And your Petitioners will, as in duty bound, ever
pray,
ac
(Here follow 203 signatures.)
Hongkong, 9th. March, 1912.
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