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shif
ford
As a
to the
voyage
J
the
you
and Kowloon
go one side to the other is not more than seven minutes. The
some time has been between
shilling and ninepence farthing
I am of the filling and ninefence and one fable for ten rides, now
the
note
got a ticket.
a
Con
travel with.
art NoPTI
about
on a concession that the British have here. how as to the food. Being a foreman joiner here I fitted out and the mainland
the bulkheads, lie this ferry company have at some time or other been granted troopship and I saw and nailed up stating the food that must be supplied. I have not got any monopoly of the ferry traffer
between Hong-Hong these lists just now, but I know that the items specified on they the government here. The time taken by the ferry bout to although
not those of an hotel menu, evere
fairly reasonable. I also know that the chief steward of a troopship can clear a atue of the dollar for certain amount through bleeding to opinion that the chief steward of the "maniton" was of this mefore the war one and I would like if you
would report this matter in the money have been raised to sixteen rides per two dollars. now this
brother says
the only ferry that respectable Europeans quarters and demand an explanation. My
was scandalous compared with other troopships. This refiret there is no
other company apparently allowed to compute which she carried sovee of the 5-and L. F.A. K.A.Now why should we be forced to pay at the least two pence for they are chief & Il now.
seven minutes ? This company's shares Glasgow. ] bring to your
notice one or two little three times their original value and they pay good dividends affain that I know to be going · Hong Kong but I the Colonial secretary. find out the details of the cannot prove them so I would refer them to
you s
that company's affairs, because he has the power, and he will su you might bring them to the Colonial secretary's notishe need for stringent reform.
my opinion this colony is for enquiry.
by a few monied men to their own as
advantage. In Hong-Kong here, there are some
here, there are some territorials of t should
you
think these items worthy of your attention Shropshires, there
government surveyors who are shall, like yourself, be pleased to have done doing volunteer service. Now my oldest brother at home is a
oldest brother at home is a furtherance of the cause and its objects
the Royal school teacher in Edinburgh, and is a lieutenant in
Thanking you he has been doing
Fremain began duty at Such keith, Leith, and now at Peebles. He receives to ammy on territorial pay and the School Board makes up difference between his civilian pay and the Army now, if the matter is
enquired into Fam sure find these Surveyou
ame
also
sest's Territorials. Since the war
the
is
drawing
oui
that you their surveyors payt their volunteer pay, while these Shropshire Femies are ge
the
ordinary soldier pay. Sots of them
uled
tau
In
in anticipation
growt
yours sincerely James
Foreman Joiner
-CL
little to the
Kowloon Dock
Hong Kong,
are tradesmen like oud. I shall be pleased to hear of any developement. The ferry
ar
the
me and that little, the
only things that affect rest is for the good of thone who deserve it.
selves and I don't understand why they should do all the fans sacrifising, while others do all the grabbing.
Then is
between Hong-Kong
Herry Company here whose beats ply
and the mainland, Kowloon is siturated and