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believe will be fully endorsed by Dr. Patrick Manson. We ask that on this point an exhaustive inquiry may be ordered, with a view to the shortening of the term of compulsory service. We suggest that an officer should be permitted to retire after 23 years' resident service in the Straits.
11. In connection with the question of climate, we may state that few, if any, of the managing partners of commercial firms in the Straits, or the managers of bank- ing establishments, are over fifty years of age, and those who are over that age have spent a large portion of their lives in colder climates.
12. We also suggest for consideration that, in view of the circumstances to which attention is drawn in para. 5 above, suitable houses be built and let at reasonable rates of rent to Government officers.
13. Both the un-official members of the Legislative Council and, the mercantile community generally have repeatedly expressed the view that the Civil Service is under- paid throughout, and requires re-classification on a more liberal scale.
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TABLE III.-(Para. 8.)
Suggested re-classification of the Straits Civil Service on the system approved lately for Ceylon.
Staff Appointment.
Colonial Secretary
***
CLASS I., 8 Appointments. (19 per cent.
of the Total. In Ceylon, 18.6).
Proposed Salary.
Present Salary.
Dollars. 10,800
14,400 dollara.
C. W. SNEYD KYNNERSLEY,
and 52 others.
Resident Councillor, Penang
Resident Councillor, Malacca
Treasurer
***
...
•
TABLE I. (Para. 5.)
Comparative Statement of cost of living in 1890 and 1900.
Auditor-General
***
Assistant Colonial Secretary
...
9,600
9,600 dollars to 10,800 dollars by annual increments of 300dollars.
7,800
7,800 dollars to 9,000 dollara by annual increments of 300 dol- lars after three years in the Class.
6,000 dollars. With- |
out seats in the Council.
6,000 dollars to 7,200 dollars by annual increments of 300 dol- lars after 2 years in the Class,
5,400 dollars and
House.
4,800 dollars and
Ноиве.
5,400 dollars to 6,000 dollars by annual increments of 300 dol- lars after three years in the Class.
Increase in 10 years
...
1890-1900.
Ironmongery and Turnery, Lamps, Electro-plated Goods,
Table Cutlery, Stationery and Fancy Goods Clothing and Clothing Materials
80%
First Magistrate, Singapore ...
First Magistrate, Penang
Protector of Chinese
...
-
...
***
35%
Wines and Spirits, Tobacco, Imported Provisions (European
manufacture)
40%
Provisions and Fodder purchascable in the local market... Horses and Carriages
40%
35%
CLASS II., 8 Appointments. (19 per cent.
of the Total. Also 21-4 per cent, in Ceylon).
House rents
40%*
Hotel boarding charges, Singapore
100%
Hotel boarding charges, Penang
• This percentage shows an average taken throughout the Settlements. House route in Singapore have risen at least 50 per cent, during the period under consideration.
TABLE II. (Para. 6.)
Showing the number of appointments in each class of the Covenanted Civil Services of Ceylon and the Straits Settlements and the percentage of the total number of appointments in each Class.
Ceylon. Total No. of Appointments, 71.
Postmaster-General
Official Assignee
Collector of Land Revenue and Officer-in-
Charge of Treasury, Malacca. Assistant Protector of Chinese, Penang
++
2
50%
Inspector of Prisons ...
...
Inspector-General of Police...
***
Senior District Officer
---
148
Inspector of Schools...
***
10
..
4,800
4,200 dollars to 4,800 dollars by annual increments of 300 dol- lars after 3 years in the Class.
Straits Total No. of Appointments, 95,
Clien
No. of Appointments,
Percentage of the Total.
Clam,
No, of Appointments,
Percentage of the Total.
1.
13
18-6
I.
**
+
10.8
II.
15
21-465-7
II.
G
---
16.2 43-2
III.
18
25-7
III. ...
6*
16.2
IV.
11
15.7
IV.
7
19.
V.
13
18-6
Y,
14
144
37.8
CLASS III., 8 Appointments. (19 per cent. of the Total. In Ceylon, 25-7 per cent.).
Magistrate and Registrar, Supreme Court.
Malacca.
Second Assistant Colonial Secretary
...
3,600
Collector of Land Revenue, Singapore
Collector of Land Revenue, Penang
Second Magistrate, Singapore Second Magistrate, Penang
•
..
**
• One of these is hold by an officer who did not join the service as a cudet.
Assistant Protector of Chinese, Singapore...
By Ceylon scheme 10 cadets. In the Straits there are now 18 cadets without pointments.
Class I is exclusive of the Colonial Secretaryship which, in Ceylon, is termed a "Staff Appointment.”
ap-
Assistant Postmaster-General, Penang
...
3,000 dollars and
House.
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