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My dear Collins,
Chief Justice's Chambers,
Supreme Court, Hongkong,
5th September, 1917.
As the war makes it unlikely that I shall have the opportunity of seeing you for some time I am making bold to write to you on the subject of the scheme of rent allowances for offi- cials here which has been recently approved by the S. of S.
The scheme, I understand, is only to be regarded as temporary, but as there is general dissatisfaction with it amongst officials of every rank I think you will not object to a few lines from me; and the more so as the recent purchase by the Government of a good house for the C.J., at a low rental, makes me in future independent of "rent allowances", and enables me I think to take
a fairly impartial view of the position.
I enclose (1) a copy of the "Rules for Rent Allowances" (8) a copy of a minute written by Hallifax, a member of the Ex. Co.
who is a most capable officer and also a very good fellos.
The minute is I think a cogent criticism of the Rules.
Rules 7 lays down that "an officer is not entitled to a rent allowance unless he is the sole occupant of a tenement with his
wif and family if any". This is, I submit, a most unreasonable
and illogical conclusion. It is impossible for a married man to
educate his children here; and when his family is at home it is
essential that he should economise either by living at a hotel,
or by Joining a mess with one or more other men. Both these
alternatives are regularly followed, two or more married men
sharing the expenses of running a house. Under the scheme neither
of the men either in the mess or hotel is to be entitled to a
rent allowance. As to the hotel alternative I may illustrate it
by reference to myself. This summer I was enforced to send my
wife and child for the summer months to Wei Hai Wef, and to let
my house and live in their absence at a hotel. The rent allowance
ceased, but if I had chosen to live alone in my house with per-