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for meritorious service, I should find my.

aelf

as

in a

WOʻ. It

position than I have been

regards salary for

On

over 20 years,

draw

which in Hong Kong it is

- ing pass, Carely passible to live position I hold.

a

RA

befits the high

In

1877

I

wa J

promoted in Ceylon to

promoted to

salary of 3,000 Rupus, worth then would

Lotan a

ሰ

Loo a year.

In 1884

I

was

salary of 9000 Rupees worth thin

728

Area che 'I

and

now

alove

as I have shewn an ove draw in

with

the salary infinitely only £804 a spear.

1898, heasier duties and responsibilities

is worth

Since

my departure from Cerflon,

10.

the Ceylon Full Junior

Works

many years

years in

partment, has

been promoted to the Office of Colonial Engineer at Singapore

•

A

much higher

salary than that ellackel to the Hon, Fong appointment. The Office of Assistant Director of Public Works has been created in No, the Cerflon with a salary of 12,000 Rupees, also pazisan Sworth much,

lory hone,

qvc

more than

my

an

10,000 appointment I might reasonably have expected decided to remain in Ceylon.

11.

to receive had

Leaving all personal matters out

of consideration, I venture to think that the salary attached to the office I hold here is inadequate considering the importa

duties