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painting work, qualified to take out quantities including
measuring up and preparing estimates of cost, with practies)
training preferably as carpeters. - Apply by letter,
stating age and experimee to the CROWY AGZHTS FOR THE
COLONIES, 4, Millbank, London 8.7.1, quoting 1/8505.
A later advertisment taken from the Lloyd's Bunday Kors of
April, 25th, 1920 is as follows: –
TWO OVERSEERS (2nd Class) required by the Public Works
Department, for a period of three years, with possible
extension Balary £260, rising by annual increments of
£10 to £300 per annum. The surrmey of Hongkong is
that of the silver dollar, the exchange value of the
Dollar with sterling varying with the price of silver.
The salaries fixed in sterling are paid to officers
actually serving in Hongkong at the rate of conversion
fixed by the Government. This rate is now 2/- to the
dollar, but is liable to alteration. Free passages and
unfurnished quarters. Candidates, age 25-30, unmarried,
who must have served in some branch of His Majesty's
Forees during the late war, unless their resons for not
doing so are entirely satisfactory, and who are experi-
mead in modern road construction, all branches, including
asphaltie surfacing, tarpaving, nett paving, and gmeral
maintenanes, under a borough mgineer, capable of mess. 2o--- ing up and preparing statements of work done, should apply by letter, within one week from the date of this adverti se- mait, stating age and experience, to the Crow Agents for
the Colonies, 4 Millbank, London, 8.7.1 quoting M/8505.
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The following figures quoted from the Hongkong Xatimates
for 1920 show the value and importance of the work to
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