purchasing power of Salaries
fixed in sterting
they
G
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so far
spent beally [?
have no doubt that the salvi
Officers are paid in
of Arany Officer
stoking, and it might be
worth mentioning this frint,
referm
to
and the compensation Scheme
A
arbroduced,
_it]
Ev
meet it.
Th
Oh H.K. Gort. to
avails the
boy information as to the
cost of living in H. Kein
with
All furler dom municatives on
this subject should be addressed
to-
The Socrater
Was Office,
London, 8. W.
and the following number quoted
Hong Kong 6/4164 (F.6.)
Sir,
53241
REC
WAR OFFICE,
REG 7 NOV16)
LONDON, S.W.
540
6 November, 1916.
I am commande i by the Army Council to enquire whether the Secretary of State for the Colonies has sanctioned any general increase in wages to oivilian employees in the Colonial Service at Hong Kong on account of the increased cost of living since 1902 and to request that you will be so good as to inform the Council of the particulars of any such increase.
I am,
Siz,
Your obedient servant,
nn Cutte пси
out of date, but swbill make
Enquiries, and
Ishall
love
any
(westions
far
I can
very glad to answer
The Unier Jecretary of State
for the Jolonies,
Jolonial Office,
Downing Street,
9.7.
We are much obliged to Mr. MoElderry.
Dyaft reply accordingly, enclosing
a sl
slightly edited form of the information
as to the cost of living
Haute in
the shape of a memo. enclosed. It can be
1.23DEC.dited in pencil and copied as edited ).`
At once
A&E
11.11.16.
Why sent to ho degment 111)
so at his aquest. Maginta
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