CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881 — Page 537

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eight years and I confidently trust that having regard to the diligent and successful discharge thereof.

as also

the additional medico-legal duties which I have been required & undertake, I hope that His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong will not refuse me his recommendation so that his Lordship the Secretary of State will not fail to recognize the justice of my application for increase of salary

I have the honour to be

Your most obedient servant

Gwkarry

Superintendent, Civil Hospital, Hongkong

Qev

for

Secretary and Hospital, Hong Kong

20th March 1881

I have the honour to inform you

that I have more than completed eight years resident service in Hongkong, and for eight years my salary has remained the same: although my responsibilities have been increased and duties largely added. I may state indeed that my salary is less now by eighteen per cent than it was eight years ago, for the dollar which was worth 4/5 is now only equivalent to 3/4.

I therefore beg to request that the circumstances of the case may be submitted to the Governor in the hope that His Excellency after due consideration will be able to grant me an increase of salary.

I may briefly state the facts upon which my application is based.

I was appointed Decr 2nd 1872 Superintendent of the Civil Hospital with a salary of £450. I was notified and I was informed that the duties would be

"those of a

Resident Surgeon, Examinations under the Contagious

Diseases Ordinance

etc.

with sundry

duties"

under the Act, and that after three years I should receive

an increase of £50 per annum.

I arrived in Hongkong and took charge,

as Surgeon

in Colo