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Fanling, Autau, Castle Peak, Teun-wan, Kowloon) and two or three short sidetracks available for rickshas and bicycles, consist of native foot-paths: the whole of the Territories are malarious
during the greater part of the year.
5.
In the Precis of Correspondence on the subject of Increases of Salary laid before the Executive Council on April 10th, 1913, it appears in § 9 under the heading Land Bailiffs
New Territories that H. E. the Governor recommended that the
salary of Mr. Last, Land Bailiff, should be increased to 2250 (the same as the Land Bailiffs P. W. D.) which "would place all
Land Bailiffs on an equal footing". This recommendation was
approved by the Secretary of State, and your Petitioners under- stand that similar recommendations have recently been made by
two successive heads of their department.
6. Your Petitioners were therefore much surprised to learn
last month that, whilst the range of salary of the Land Bailiffs
P. W. D. has been increased to £320 to £360, your Petitioners'
range of salary has been fixed at £270 to £320 only, which,
allowing for the change in the rate of exchange and the withdrawal
of the 20% bonus, is approximately the same as their previous rate
of pay.
7. Your Petitioners respectfully protest against this
unfair treatment and submit that they are entitled to any increase
which may be granted to the Land Bailiffs P. W. D.
8.
The work of the Bailiffs P. W. D. and of your Petitioners
is similar in its nature, and there is no system of promotion
from one Department to the other, as there is nothing to prevent
the Government from filling a vacancy in the better paid posts
from any other department or from outside the service, as has
been done in the past. Further it is more expensive to live in
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