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To
Public Works Department,
Hong Kong,
June, 1920.
The Right Honourable,
Lord Viscount Milner, P.C., G.C.B., G.C.M.G. &c.,
His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies.
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Your Lordship,
We, the undersigned, Land Surveyors of
the Public Works Department of Hong Kong, feel so strong-
ly the inadequacy of the new scale of salaries recently
communicated to us, that we humbly request Your Lordship
to re-consider the question, and respectfully submit
the following particulars for Your Lordship'e considera-
tion:-
1.
2.
We understand that the evidence produced
during the enquiry in the Spring of 1919 into
the cost of living in this Colony proved
conclusively that this had increased by 30%
since 1914, and we are informed by a responsi-
ble person who gave evidence at that enquiry
that the cost of living has increased by a
further 15% to 20% since that date, and that
there is every indication of a further rise
of at least 25% within the next two years,
We are of opinion that an officer should be
in a position to marry at the age of thirty
at the latest, and we consider that a salary
of $500.00 per mensen (2600 per annum) is the
minimum sum on which an officer can marry and
maintain his wife and possible family in that
degree