NO COFFINTIAL.
Sir,
42031
Res 31 AUG 18)
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 4th. July, 1918.
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I have the honour to inform you that it
has been represented to me that Mr. F. H. Dillon, Land Bailiff in the Public Works Department, finds it practically impossible to subsist on his present salary.
Mr. Dillon, who joined the service in
June, 1901, as a Warder in Victoria Gool, was appointed Lond Bailiff in 1904 and reached the maximum salary of £270 in
January, 1915, or about $230 a month.
Mr. Dillon has 9 children 5 of whom were
being boarded and educated at the Italian Convent under a
special arrangement at an average monthly cost of 860 which
left him only 8170 a month to keep himself and his wife and
four children and to clothe the whole family. He is a frugal
man and has up to now managed to pay his way but with the
constant rise of prices it has now become impossible for him
to do so, and he has had to withdrew 4 of his children from
the Convent.
Mr. Dillon, who is 48 years of age, is deserving of assistance and I therefore propose in the very
exceptional circumstances of the case that he should be granted a monthlypersonal non-pensionable allowance of 830 a month as from 1st. July, 1918. He will benefit further if
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
WALTER LONG, M.P.
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