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end of the year I shall be glad to have Your Lordship's approval of the Estimates by telegraph as soon as possible. 4. The details of revenue and expenditure are dealt with very fully in my address, and the explanations given there and in the footnotes to the Estimates render it, I think, unnecessary for me to cover the same ground again. The changes due to the revised rates of salary are indeed so numerous that a consideration of the various items affected would be very laborious and to little purpose. It may be well, however, that I should refer more specifically to the matters in the following paragraphs.
5.
Under Miscellaneous Services on page 35 of the Estimates a sum of $65,000 is provided for "Other Miscella- neous Services", instead of $5,000 as for 1920. The additional $60,000 is required in support of the work hitherto carried on by the War Propaganda Committee, with 3896 20 regard to which I will report separately,
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6.
On page 70 in the Education Department Estimates it will be seen that provision has been made for two Senior Masters on a salary of £750 to £850 by #25 annually. For this approval has already been given in Your Lordship's telegram of the 2nd November, 1920. Of the
remaining Masters six have been put in Class I on the scale £650 to £750 by £25 annually, and thirteen in Class II, on the scale £400 to £600 by £20 annually.
7.
In the case of the European Officers of the Public Works Department salaries were inserted on the old basis with the addition of 20% pending the receipt of Your Lordship's reply to my despatch No.239 of the 21st July,
which arrived too late to allow of the inclusion of the re-
vised rates finally approved.
8.
In the case of subordinate Chinese Staff, the
strike settlement of last spring involved an increase of
324 per cent in the salaries of men employed in the engineer-
ing and certain other allied trades, as I reported in my