Enclosure 17.
505
General Test Office Wanchai, 16 November, 1890:
The Right Honourable Lord Knutsford, G.C.M.G.
H.M. Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.
&c.
&c.
&c.
My Lord,
I beg most respectfully to submit for your Lordship's consideration my petition for a personal allowance of $20 per mensem, based on the grounds which I shall proceed to enumerate.
Under the new scheme for the readjustment of salaries, instead of receiving an increase, I shall be placed at a disadvantage, for the increase I shall be entitled to amounts to $4 per mensem on my present salary, while on the other hand I shall be required to contribute to the Widows and Orphans' Pension Fund to the extent of $5.74, which means an actual reduction of $1.76 on my present emoluments.
Having a wife and several children to support and spending most of my time at sea as a Marine Officer, ...
!
Enclosure 17.
505
Seneral Test Office Wonythong, 16. Nosomber, 1890:
The Right Honourable Lord Knutsford, G. CM.G.
H.M. Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.
&c.
&c.
Se
My Lord,
but the
1.
I beg most respectfully
-most mspectfully to submit for your
Lordship's considnation this.
my petition for
personal allowance of $20 per vmensem, based on the grounds which I shall proved to enumerate
Under the nuw scheme for the readjustment of
salaries, instead of receiving an increase, I shall be
placed at a disadvantage, for the increase I shall be entitled to amounts to of #4 per
VALAVALV
commy present sutury, while on the other hand I shall be required to contribute to the Widows and Orphans' Tension Sund to the extent of of 5.74, which,
means an actual
Creduction of $ 1.76 on my present emoluments.
Having a wife and several children to support and spending,
What benefit family. для
as Marine Officer, most of my time
at
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.