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REG 14 AUG 19
Registration Branch,
General Post Office,
Hong Kong, 29th May, 1899.
I beg to bring to your notice the fact that it is almost impossible for me to carry on the work of this Department with my present staff.
I have lost, within the last six months, three of the oldest and best clerks in this office and their places have been filled by young lads with no previous knowledge of Postal Work.
The staff, at present employed here, consists of three clerks with a service of a little more than two years each, one clerk with almost one year's service, one clerk with about five months' service and two clerks who joined this month.
I may mention that previous to the loss of any of these Senior Clerks I found that the work of this department was far more than could be satisfactorily performed by a staff numerically equal to the present one, but vastly superior to it in training, knowledge and experience.
During the last six months the work has, if anything, increased and as I have already shown the efficiency of the staff has decreased alarmingly, with the result that the work is not done and cannot be done as it should be done. For some time back almost every officer in this Department has been working from two to three hours extra, daily, in a vain attempt to get all office work up to date. I have no doubt that if the extra work was increased to three or four hours daily for each officer I might be able to keep the work up to date but there is another point to consider, viz., the arrival of Contract Mails:
Postmaster General,
Hong Kong.
sir,
Lub-Enclosuret.
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21463
RECO
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REG 14 AUG 19
Registration Branch,
General Post Office,
HongKong 29th. May, 1899.
I beg to bring to your notice the fact that it is
almost impossible for me to carry on the work of this Depart-
ment with my present staff.
I have lost, within the last six months, three of
the oldest and best clerks in this office and their places
have been filled by young lads with no previous knowledge of
Postal Work.
The staff, at present employed here, consists of
three clerks with a service of a little more than two years
each, one clerk with almost one year's service, one clerk with
about five months' service and two clerks who joined this month.
I may mention that previous to the loss of any of
these Senior Clerks I found that the work of this department
was far more than could be satisfactorily performed by a staff
numerically equal to the present one, but vastly superior to
it in training knowledge and experience.
During the last six months the work has, if anything,
increased and as I have already shown the efficiency of the
staff has decreased alarmingly, with the result that the work
is not done and cannot be done as it should be done. For some-
time back almost every officer in this Department has been
working from two to three hours extra, daily, in a vain attempt
to get all office work up to date, I have no doubt that if
the extra work was increased to three or four hours daily for
each officer I might be able to keep the work up to date but
there is another point to consider via the arrival of Contract
Mails:-
Postmaster General,
On
HongKong.
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