CO129-298 - Governor Sir Blake Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [3-4] — Page 35

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Sir,

Enclosure 1.

Harbour Department,

HongKong, 26th February, 1900.

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·24 APR 00

I have the honour to ask that you will

be good enough to assist me in approaching His Excellency the Governor for an increase to my house allowance and also to my selery, which I venture to say are inadequate

to the cost or housing and living in the Colony at

the present time..

Last

August Mr, Meugens and I approached

you on the subject of an increase to our house allowance

In response to our application, which you kindly

recommended for the favourable consideration of His

Excellency, the Honourable the Treasurersaid:-"I quite

sympathise with the applicants, but as it is

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probable that a commission will be appointed shorty to go

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into the question as regards the whole service, perhaps

it would be better to wait.

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As the despatch from the Right Honourable

theSecretary of State for the Colonies has arrived

granting in many cases an increase of salaries but no

increase falls to my lat, most respectfully, beg to say

that I have been in this Department for nearly 12 years

and to my substantive appoitment there has only been

an increase of $35 Rer mensem my present salary being

$1920 per annum with a house allowance of $420, and

I further beg to point out, if I may be permitted to

do so, that in one Government Department an officer

whose length of service does not compare with mine and whose salary is more than one third less is reciving$600

for