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but, although I have not seen any arguments which tend to show that my estimate of the relative value of the services rendered by the officers concerned is excessive, my recommendation has not been accepted.
3. I can, therefore, only express to you and to Messrs: Brayn and Dallin my regret that the revised rates. as at present approved, should compare su unfavourably with those which have been assigned tu certain ther officers in Hongkong with whom, so far as my information leads me to believe, you, and they, might fairly he cum-
that I am pared. At the moment, however, I feel/precluded from taking any further action in the matter, and I can only leave it to your individual discretion to decide whether, on a careful review of the whole of the facts, as they
appear to you, you would or would not be justified in availing yourselves of the permissive line of actiun which is indicated in Colonial Regulation 212.
I have, etc.,
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E.STEPHENSON.