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FOF"Y FIFTH MERTINO.

Friday the 4th day of January 1907, at 2.30 p.m.

The Honourable Mr E. A. Hewett, presided:-

11 the Members, excepting, Mr Humphraya, present:-

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Mr Shelton Hooper:-

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The Honourable Mr W. Chatham, recalled:-

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The first question I have got to ask you 16: Referring

to Memorandum of Departmental Arrangements for carrying

out the provisions of the Public Health and Buildings

Ordinance, with respect to those sections that apply

to the Building Authority and the Sanitary Board,

supposing no part of the Building Authority's Departmen ↑

of the work was done by the Sanitary Board Officials,

what extra staff would you require, and what would

their respective salaries be?

It is a very difficult matter to give any absolutely

definite answer to a question of that kind, but my

idea is that you might double the present staff of

overseers. I have three overseers at present, and I

think six might do. Their salaries would be the same as

the present ones £240 to £270 a year,

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rising to £270.

Yr Shelton Rooper:-

That is so far as that is concerned.

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The Chairman : -

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Before you go on, Mr Chatham, you think that £270 le

quite the highest pay that need he given to a man of

that class, living in Hongkong and living decently and

honestly and so forth?

In the present condition of exchange, I think it is

rather low.

But only in view of the extremely high rate of

exchange of the moment ?

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