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Hong trong

LL COMMUNICATIONS

TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES.

C. O.

16638

RECO

PEG 20 SEP 82,

DOWNING STREET, LONDON.

19th September 1882

417

Sir

C.A.

16495

With reference to

your

letter dated

the

of

the 18th instant on the subject

terms on which workmen are

ai

the

to be engaged for service Hong Kong Water Works, I have the honour to state that it appears

be preferable

to us that it

to make a

may

slight addition to the

the

wages of

men rather than

grant them the privilege of remitting at the rate of 4/2 per dollar, provided that the object for which the additional allowance is given is stated in their

Under Secretary of

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State

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Colonial Office