CO129-285 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [9-10] — Page 205

& Exchange Compensation & have been refused: though To the last paper Is Johnson muüuted to the

materially

effect that if the cost of living had me

I am left under the impressedon that

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Salaries formerly paid to these Pararehus

must

gove up a

CALL

maght

be made at

for addressing

their pay.

J

am

made

afact I do not think such

a cau i

out. Mr Sercombe Smith in the encloud

Memorandum

has

gove carefully into the caser

of

all

there me

9 while

he allows the

Jimm

astia

Caver

increases should be given, he appears

to show conclusively that there is

Lo

care we de

have been considerably two high. It

may be noticed

that most of there

drawing Salaries 25. a higher than those

re con tendect

by the Retrenchment Committan

some employers of Eurasian

in 1894: & moreover though labour have given their employe's increases, this has not been the rule I doubt too

Eurandar

the care

of

the

shing

F

thand-of

in the South Houghing is so

aut for

G

general

increase of

culty

in refrening is due to the

Salaries. The diffi- the fact that

have only

last

year granted

a

10p. anchare

trone in the Stimits. The tables

gwew in this paper

as compared with those conluummed in 23172

to show that the chief necessaries in

necatsaries in Hongkong

SCRIL

brauch

of

the

L

of Salay to the corresponding

Scruze ű the Shawls Setts; and it seelus moreover

to adult that the cost

писаногу

of living in Hongkong has greatly increased during the leat few years. After reading the Acting Col: Sec's mainta

4 may of the

Hongkong Salaries & Strate

pivew

in the lacks

to this despatch I those of the corresponding Straite

have not

gone up so

Should doubt seurati

much

AL/

in the Strmits. I

being

so

expensive in Haughing.

as in the Strite what is

Chin

so much further frozen

Moreover the following comparisons between th