CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898 — Page 438

427A.

the

Belition Public School it would

to have paid

have been impossible for me

my nay.

It is more than

twelve years

since

the salary of my office não revised; it at the general revision

has

not rained at the

of salaries in 1891.

trevor dox and burtis, holding

similar appointmen to

仑

my

own

at Singapore,

and Penang respectively, have $2,100 per

an num

cach, in addition to free houses,

October last

year.

in connection with the Seareting of

Stêtes recommendation that I hould be given

a

bonus if I proved

a)

11144 satisfaction, locum Oxess, wrote - "Very

satisfactory, I have much pleasure in doing

97

80".

It certainly appears very

anomalous to me, that a

man who is capable of taking charge of the bepartment should be drawing only the same salary

do

some

that

I

and I would respectfully cak may at least, be put upon the same

be permitted, perhaps, to

Я

may

attention to the fact that the thearts Fox and burtis have

I footing.

draw

youn salarico of been raised during the according to the

Department

F

the

kepartment, and

overseers in the Public Worko

little more than

only a

half of what other officers in similar

Straits are drawing.

Another point which I would

positions in

Ai

or

two,

of may

6 Hspectfully ack

you House Allowance.

consider is that

boot

year Colonial Office List.

I have had sole charge of the

on

three vesesions

since

muy appointment, rig: in 1893, for three weeks; in 1894 for three months, and lost yearn for eight months, and I have

to believe that I carried

lucky reason

but

may

duties satisfactorily.

Я

Sir William Robinson on 45

October

The

sum of $30 her mensens

which I am allowed at present does house in the

not permit

to la f

a

no

European part of the town, and I beg to

a Dum

in accordanc

more

house rents

request that

with the prevailing rate of

be allowed me.

House nexto have been going up

in

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