3,000 dollars to 4,200 dollars by annual increments of 300dollars after 3 years in the Class.
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5. House rent and also the prices of imported goods, especially materials of clothing and oil have very materially increased lately.
6. Your Memorialists think it unnecessary to reiterate all that they have stated in their previous Memorials in support of their cause. They approach Your Honour with full confidence that in Your Honour's hands their appeal would meet with favour-
able consideration.
Your Memorialists pray that Your Honour will be graciously pleased to grant them an adequate relief, which, under present circumstances, they respectfully venture to submit, will be met by a further increase of 20 per cent.
And Your Memorialists as in duty bound will ever pray.
Singapore, June 19, 1900.
196 Signatories.
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Staff Appointment.
Pru unt Salary.
Proposed Salary.
Class IV., 8 Appointinents. (19 per cent, of the Total. In Ceylon, 15-7 per cent.).
Dollara.
District Officer, Bukit Mertajam
2,400
Deputy Registrar, Surpreme Court, Singa-
3,000
pore.
District Officer, Dindings
www
3,600
Assistant Official Assignee and Registrar |
of Decas, Penang.
3,600
Superintendent of Education, Penang
2,100
Sheriff and Deputy Registrar, Singapore
3,000
Deputy Registrar, Penang
Third Magistrate, Singapore
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3,000
...
2,400
CLASS V., 10 Appointments, (23-8 per cent,
of the Total." In Caylon, 157 per cent.).
Third Magistrate, Penang
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400
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District Officer, Balik Pulau
District Officer, Nibong Tebal
District Officer, Alor Gajahı
District Officer, Jasin
Assistant Superintendent of Indian Immi-
gration.
Fourth Magistrate, Singapore
Second Assistant Protector of Chinese,
Penang.
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Sub-Inspector of Schools, Malacca...
Superintendent of Malay College, Malacca
Passed Cadets of over five years' service
2,400
3,000 dollars to 3,000 dollars by annual increments of 200 dol- lars.
2,400
Passed Cadets of less than five years' service, 1,800 dollars to 2,100 dollars by increments of 200 dollare per annum—subject to the ruló that Cadets of over 5 years' service recvivo 2,400) dollars in any case.
Enclosure 3 in No. 1.
THE MEMBERS OF THE SUBORDINATE BRANCH of the CIVIL SERVICE, Penang, to Sir ALEXANDER SWETTENHAM.
The humble Memorial of the undersigned Members of the Subordinate Branch of the Civil Service SHEWETH,
1. Your Memorialists respectfully desire to lay the following facts before Your Honour with a view to obtaining from Your Honour some measure of relief from the difficulties imposed upon them by the recent increase in the price of the necessaries of life.
2. Your Memorialists, while grateful for the ten per cent. increase granted to them in 1897, humbly submit that that increase to their salaries is quite inadequate to compensate them now for the increased cost of living as compared with 1897. In proof of this Your Memorialists humbly invite Your Honour's attention to the facts set forth below.
3. The ten per cent. increase granted in 1897 was in consideration of the previous increase in the cost of living, and Your Memorialists submit that the following facts show that their position has become so materially worse since then that a similar measure of relief may be fairly asked for now.
4. Rice, the staple food of the country, has increased in price since 1897, and it
is impossible to tell how much higher the price may go.
5. There has been also a considerable increase in the price of articles of food procurable in the Colony itself, such as meat, pork, fish, poultry, vegetables, fruit, milk, and bread, which will more fully appear in the following lists of market prices for 1897, and for the present time published in the Penang Gazette:-
Brd May, 1900, 28th August, 1897.
Centa.
Centa.
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Per catty
12
10
28
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28
19
16
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28
11
Each
30
35
12
30
10
25
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20
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50
16
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Enclosure 2 in No. 1.
THE MEMBERS OF THE SUBORDinate Branch OF THE CIVIL SERVICE, Singapore, to Sir ALEXANDER SwettenHAM.
The humble Memorial of the undersigned Members of the Subordinate Branch of
the Civil Service SHEWETH,
THAT Your Memorialists, in consequence of the continued rise in the cost of the necessaries of life, and the inadequacy of the 10 per cent. increase granted to them in 1897, venture to approach Your Honour with a view to obtaining some further
relief.
2. While most grateful to Government for the consideration shown to Your Memorialists in 1897, they respectfully beg to state that the increase then granted has not secured the measure of relief sought after and which was absolutely necessary.
3. In an interview with the Honourable C. W. S. Kynnersley, then Acting Colonial Secretary, Your Memorialists stated that at least 25 per cent. increase to their salaries would be adequate to compensate them for the increased cost of living then,
4. The prices of all locally manufactured articles, the cost of education, medical attendance, and the wages of domestic servants have also risen.
Beef:-
Soup...
Roast...
Steaks
Stew or Curry Meat Rump Steak
Ox Tail
Ox Tongue
Ox Feet
Heart
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O. 882
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
Pork :-
l'ork ...
Pig's Head
*
Fort
Tongue
Mutton :--
Mutton
Head
Fent
...
Tripe...
Liver...
Buffalo Meat
Liver...
Heart
Fish:-
Salangin
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