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mainly influenced me, is

salary

When I was in

svas

L1000

year

d.

money-question. Singapore my-- with advantages

such as Horse-allowance 4. which Jestimate

as over

of my

-₤100 a year

by more and

the terms

letter of appointment to the post of Registrar at Honghong. I assumed that the

appointment

I then

holding,

average

was a

better one than I was

and that the

about £1200

A

year

salary

would

The proposed change seems to limit

income to £1000

my incon

Adrie

a.

year

while at the

time I find the expense of living here greater than at Singapore and I feel that with a family to provide for at home I _

expenditure within that

could not

limit.

not keep my

Apart from the more

money question I was also influenced in a certain degree by

the consideration of the responsibilities and difficulties attending the holding of the two

posts of Magistrate and Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, at the same time by the same person-for,

however a Man of Mr. May's talent and long experience with the working of the tevo departments might be able to combine the two offices, I see objections which would make such a combination of offices anything but agreeable to me

For the Office of Magistrate, I.__ venture to think I am fitted and I should. be quite willing to agree.

to undertake the-

duties of the Magistrazy in conjunction with some other suitable appointment-compatio..

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