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Public Works Department, praying for promotion in another Colony.

2.

6162 Malsch is at

present in receipt of salary

at the rate of $2,400 per

annunIL

with

an allowance

of $360 a year for rent. These

are

house

the maximum

emolumento attached to his

appointment.

3.

The reasons

for

which this officer wishes to

leave Hong Kong

are the increase

in cost of living, and the

great

rise in rents.

This

case,

266

I would

point out to Your Lordship,

is

only one of many, illustrating the urgent necessity for

general inercase

of

the

salaries

recommended to your favourable

consideration in my despatch the 21st of Vorember

N:826 of the 21st,

You

2585088

6th Feby. 1889.

last.

J.

I enclose a copy of a

closure & letter from $129. M. Price, the Surveyor General, testifying to Mr Malich's good condust -

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great

and