CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12] — Page 337

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therefore the

Governor must have misunderstood § 16 of the diffe... 25515/98. The player two used do not affect

and have

...

increase

satisfactory

many cases

the more

and

logical

as those proposed in 23712/98. - We have no detailed estimate information as to how the increase will be applied,

how many officers will be involved. A 30 per cent increase, on my percent way, will introduce in met incomment factions, would not include the gradations of salaries proposed in the form report. I would therefore approve the proposition in the former report, which will at any rate be sufficient for the present year,

him discussion, if he thinks fit introduce slight modifications and more systematic gradation

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next

rate be

lations

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Referring

to

At

salaries

of

Chinese

n's dish,

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No.

324.

Sir,

Government House,

Hongkong, November, 1899.

I have the honour to transmit for your

consideration the enclosed copy of a report by a Committee

which I appointed to enquire into the subject of the

salaries of the Chinese employes in the Government service.

2. The report of a previous Committee referred

to in the first paragraph of the enclosure was transmitted

to you in the Officer Administering the Government's

Despatch No. 271 of 22nd September, 1898, which was replied

to by your despatch No.332 of 23rd December, 1898.

Owing to the increased wages now being drawn by Chinese not in Government employment, Heads of Departments are continually complaining that they cannot

obtain proper servants at the Government rates of

pay and I would strongly urge the propriety of increasing salaries somewhat on the lines indicated in this report which would result in an additional expenditure of about $17,000 per annum which in my opinion the Colony is able

to afford.

ov since 1898, except as regards salaries already increased

to by my by minute paper,

dabolote.

follow

dest. No! 132. Despatch

Com

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.

&c., &c., &c.

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