10
Your Memorialists pray that Your Honour will be graciously pleased to grant a further ten per cent, allowance on their present salaries.
And Your Memorialists as in duty bound will ever pray.
Penang, May 9, 1900.
200 Signatories.
11
[Paragraphs 6 and 7 are similar to those in Enclosure 3.]
[Paragraphs 8, 9, and 10, are similar to paragraphs 9, 10 and 11 in Enclosure 3.] And Your Memorialists as in duty bound will ever pray.
53 Signatories.
Malacca, June 1, 1900.
The average price of rice sold in Malacca during the last three years.
SHEWETH,
Enclosure 4 in No. 1.
THE MEMBERS OF THE SUBORdinate Branch OF THE CIVIL SERVICE, Malacca, to Sir ALEXANDER SWETTENHAM,
The humble Memorial of the undersigned Members of the
Subordinate Branch of the Civil Service
[The first four paragraphs are similar to those in Enclosure 3.]
5. There has been also a considerable increase in the price of articles of food procurable in Malacca itself, such as meat, pork, fish, poultry, &c., which will more fully appear in the following lists of market prices for 1897 and for the present time:-
1899.
1900.
1808,
Per pikal.
Per pikul.
Per pikul.
4.30 dollars to 4:40 dollars.
4-30 dollars to 4:40 dollars.
4:40 dollars to 4·60 dollars.
The prices quoted above were given by Mr. Tan Hun Guan's Manager.
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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Reference :-
C.O. 882
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-
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Potatoes...
Coffee
Beef
Pork
Mutton
Fowls
Ducks...
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
MR. CHAMBERLAIN to ACTING-GOVERNOR SIR J. A. SWETTENHAM.
28th May, 1900, 11th September, 1897,
Dollars. Cents.
Dollars. Cents.
Per caddy
-08
(No. 353.)
·40
-40
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17
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Paraffin oil, Langhat...
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Milk, fresh
Bugar, white
Lard
Oil, cocoanat
Salt fish...
Fish roe
Devne's
*60
Per dozen
Each
Per tin
{
1 *65
1
2 -65
1
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Per chupal
+10
Per catty
•12
•12
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50
*50
-00
3 *00
*60
-70
⚫40
*50
20
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17
Bread
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Pepper, black
"
Per lont
Per catty
"
Ghee
19
·20
+50
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*20
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+12
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-15
·60
[Answered by No. 10.]
Downing Street, November 21, 1900.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 306, of the 27th of August last, transmitting a Memorial from the members of the (cadet) Civil Service of the Straits Settlements, in regard to the prospects of the service, especially in the matter of pay and promotion.
2. Before arriving at a final decision on the subject of this Memorial, I should be glad if you would furnish me with a detailed scheme, showing the improvements which you recommend should be effected in the pay and the classification of posts.
3. In view of the fact that the services of the Straits Settlements, the Federated Malay States, and Hong Kong are now entered as one service, and should be as far as possible assimilated in point of salary and prospects, you should carefully consider, in conjunction with the Resident-General, how far it is desirable, with the view of uniformity, also to alter the pay and classification of the cadet service of the Federated Malay States.
You will at the same time doubtless bear in mind the recent re-classification of the cadet service of Hong Kong. I enclose a copy of a despatch† addressed to the Governor of that Colony in December last, from which you will gather the main features of the new arrangement. The details have since been added to in various respects, as to which you will no doubt be able to obtain full information from Sir Henry
Blake.
5. You will observe that the system of increments has been adopted in each class of the Hong Kong service, above the rank of passed cadet. I note, moreover, that in stating your objections to an incremental scale of salary, you admit that as the system has been adopted in Ceylon, it may with even more suitability be made general in the Straits Settlements service. I recognise that there are arguments of considerable force which may be adduced against the system of increments as well as in its favour, but I consider that in this, as in other respects, the object to be attained in formulating such a scheme as I have requested you to prepare should be general uniformity with the sister service of Hong Kong, and the arrangements in regard to increments should be based on this general principle.
6. I informed you in my telegram of the 20th August last, that I was of opinion that some improvement in the pay of the junior appointments in the Federated Malay States service was justified by the very large proportion of such posts in that service, as compared with the Straits Settlements. It is obvious, therefore, that any reduction in the proportion of junior to senior posts in the Straits Settlements service, such as
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