CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12] — Page 373

landing place

In

rest is, under

summer,

when.

any circumstances,

a

: diffiently, it is seldom possible to sleep before midnight, on account of all the doors being open to the

incessant noise outside.

2.1.

There

are six other

Government Officers, of position who : enjoy quarters. These are the Captain superintendent and Deputy- duperintendent of Police, the ____ Superintendent of the Gaol, the Head and second Masters of the Central School, and the Superintendent - of the Civil Hospital. Now, in all

except the last, I.

these cases/

venture to assert that the necessity.

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for resident Officers does not rest on any stronger grounds than in the_ ease of the Post Office. Yet in all six instances the resident Officers

occupy very good quarters, sufficient

for a family,

all more or less on

the hillside, in

xiry

and tolerably

secluded situations, and all

evevi

absolutely rent free. I believe I am the only Government Officer charged with rent,

my. subordinate postmasters at Shanghae and Yokohama enjoying public quarters free.

22.

I can discover no

satisfactory

reason for this difference. The

it has been, as I have

cause

(of

joinhi

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