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amount in all to about $150, Club subscriptions to about
$20 a month. But it must be borne in mind 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.
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
Surveyor during his probationary term of 3 years can save money and still live on a scale which would content
him at home.
But it would be extremely difficult for a
married Surveyor to live on the salary offered during the first few years of service in Hong Kong, and it is
for that reason considered essential that candidates
should be unmarried. achisalle that efforis selected stel levamarrick whe Shati-
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