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of their respective salaries.

In view

conveyed

of the decision in Lord Ripon's-des-

patch N°82 of the 1st April last, & 1

I have no remarks to

offer

on

the above application, except to

state that I am n

to recommend

not prepared

any

addition to

the Postal Staff at present.

I have the honour to be,

dir, Your most Obedient

Kumble Servant,

Willinin Robinzer

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Enclosure

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General Not Office.

Hong Kong 11th July 1895

We the

the undersi

Lord Marquess,

perm

clerks, on the.

orgued, clerks, on went staff of the lost Office Department, "beg most respectfully to subuit for your Lordship's reconsideration what are humbly conceive to be

hardships the unfavourable decision contained

your

Lordships despatch to His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong, ho 82 dated 10th April 1895.

in respect of the Natinaster General's proposed redistribution of salaries, co

a

in

-

consequent on the retirement

two clerks in this Department.

of tu

We are

aware

the salaries

of the fact that in the report of the Retrenchment Commission nearly the whole of

of the existing

existing posts in this Department have been recommended. for reduction, and, no doubt, in the face of which your Lordship other decision than that quoted above.

Whilst fully

was unable to come

to

any

of the report of the the precognising the sumportance and without wishing in

Retrenchment baumission,

any way

to cast-

slight on their work, we take the liberty to question whether the Honourable Membera

of

the

"Committee have sufficiently taken into consideration the difference between Not Office work and the

the

Right Honourable

The Marquess of Ripon

Secretary of State for the kolonies

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purely