with the enormously high house rent-- more than absorbs all our income, and before the month is over our pay is quite gone, and we find ourselves embarrassed to provide for the deficiencies, which we find it difficult to make up, and insensibly we run ourselves in debt. On the other hand we have hard work and duty to perform day and night, this as well as the high cost of living in this place, we are certain are known facts to you, and we need not take time in describing.
We would however beg leave to point out to you the comparatively better pay allotted to all the subordinate Officers and clerks in the various other civil departments of the Colony, and the amount of work they have to perform that you may yourself judge of the truth of our complaint. Our first Class Clerk, Mr. Barradas, for instance, who has the Booths and Accounts Office in charge of, besides the general duty of the Establishment, to attend to, (in spite of his 10 years service in the Post Office) gets only £300 per annum, whilst the first Classes of other departments receive no less than £400 and work only from 10A.M. to 4P.M. each day exclusive of Sundays, and whose duty and responsibility bear no comparison to his. Our 2nd Clerk Mr Leiria, who in his ... year of service, receives only £250 instead...
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with the enormously high house rent-- more than absorbs all our income, and before the mouch is over our
gone,
pay is quite and we find ourselves embarrassed to provide for the deficienes, which we find it difficult to make up, and _ incensibly we run ourselves in debt. On the other hand we have hard work and duty to perform day and night, this well as the high cost of living in
this place, we are certain are known facto
to
you,
and we need not take
time in describing.
your
We would however beg leave ti
1 point out to you
better pay
the comparatively allotted to all the subordinati Officers and clerks
the various other
of the
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civil departments of the Colony, and the amount of work they have to perform that you may yourself judge of the truth
of
our
complaint. Our first Class Ms. Barradas for instance, who has the _
Booths and Accounts,
Office
charge of the besides the general duty of the Establishmen, to attend to, (in spilt of his 10 years service - in the Post Office) gets only £300 per
£300 per 3 annum, whilst the first Classes of other departments receive no less than £400 and work only from 10A.M. 6oh 4.8. M. each day exclusive of Lundays, and whose duty and responcibility.
to his. Our 2nd
bear
no comparison
Clerk Mr Leiria, who in his // = year
of service, receives only £250 instead
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