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"The Cost of hotel accommodation for a
single person varies from 7145 to $250 a month, not
inclusive of drinks, electric fans and fires. The
rates of a married couple would probable be from
1240 to $500 a month.
Boarding House accommodation for a single
person may be put at /125 to $200 a month; for
married couples, perhaps #200 to 400 a month.
Wages of Native servants vary from 12 to
730 a month.
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Other expenses would include laundry
(say 10 a month) transport (say 715 a month), and
holidays spent outside the Colony etc.
The entrance fees to the best social club
in Hong Kong, a good golf club and the best cricket
club amount in all to about #150, Club subscriptions
to about $20 a month.
that attendant expenses, especially in the case of
golf, are likely to involve a considerable addition
to this sum. Other clubs such as the yacht club
and the polo club, are cheap of their kind, but must
be regarded as expensive luxuries.
But it must be borne in mind
There is at present no Income Tax in the
Colony and there are no rates or taxes in the usual
English sense.
On the whole it may be said that an unmarried
master on a three years' agreement can save money if
he wishes to do so, and still live on a scale which
would probably content him at home.
School holidays in Hong Kong give special
facilities for visiting neighbouring countries.
Japan