CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12] — Page 279

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Sufficient.

3. You will remember

that the salaries of these officers were recently raised 20 per cent above the

дроста

rates of pay drawn fixed

in 1875,

because it

was represented in

the Report Enclosed

in

zum predreessi

despatch no. 389 of

that

23 Dec. 1889 the cost of living in

hadyvery

Hongkong had very Considerably

an the case.

of officers

domiciled in the East,

^

as well as in the

case of officer

apponited fromm

England. That

stated in Effect.

276

Report and that the cost of living

generally

had within.

ten gears increase)

cent for 20 perce

Europeans, and 10

per cent for

Non-

Europeans, and it accordingl

was

recom

mended that Europeans

officer shaned be

was

what

given as estimated in dollars

practically a

rise

of 35 per cent inter their 1875 rates of

ar

paz

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