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Staff Appointment.

Pre eat Salary.

Proposed Salary.

Class IV., 8 Appointments. (19 per cent, of the Total. In Ceylon, 15-7 per cent.).

Dollars.

District Officer, Bukit Mertajam

2,400

Deputy Registrar, Surpreme Court, Singa-

3,000

3,000 dollars to 4,200 dollars by annual increments of 300dollars after 3 years in the Class.

pure.

District Officer, Dindings

3,600

Assistant Official Assigner and Registrar

3,600

of Dees, Penang.

Superintendent of Education, Penang

2,400

Sheriff and Deputy Registrar, Singapore

3,000

Deputy Registrar, l'enang

...

3,000

2,400

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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.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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Third Magistrate, Singapore

CLASS V., 10 Appointments. (23.8 per cent. of the Total. In Ceylon, 157 per cent.).

Third Magistrate, Penang

District Officer, Balik Pulau

...

District Officer, Nibong Tebal

District Officer, Alor Gajah ...

District Officer, Jasin

444

2,400

3,000 dollars to 3,000 dollars by annual Increments of 200 dol- lars.

Assistant Superintendent of Indian Immi-

gration.

Fourth Magistrate, Singapore

Second Assistant Protector of Chinese,

Penang.

Sub-Inspector of Schools, Malaccṛ.......

Superintendent of Malay College, Malacca

Passed Cadets of over five years' service

2,400

Pamed Cadets of less than five years' service, 1,800 dollars to 2,400 dollars by increments of 200 dollare per annum subject to the rule that Cadets of over 5 years' service receive 2,400 dollars in any case.

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 aecured 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.

The prices of all locally manufactured articles, the cost of education, medical attendance, and the wages of domestic servants have also risen.

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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 30me 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.

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:-

Beef :-

Soup ...

Rosat...

Steake

**

Stew or Curry Meat Rump Steak

Ox Tail

Ox Tongite

Qx Feet

Heart

Liver...

3rd May, 1900. 98th August, 1897.

Cents.

Per catty

12

Cents.

10

28

20

20

节

11

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M

11

Each

44

11

28

16

16

20

* * * * 2 9 3 2 3 2

29 23 22 2

30

35

50

35

12

10

30

25

20

16

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