CO129-300 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [7-9] — Page 262

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No.

349.

C.0.

28856

REC

*

REP 3 SEP 00

Government House,

HongKong,

1st

260

August, 1900.

sir,

I have the honour to transmit for your

favourable consideration the enclosed copy of an application

from Mr.J.C.Wong, Clerk in the Land Office, for an increase of

salary.

losur

ember

1899.

The facts stated in Mr.Wong's letter are

correct, and his present application is very strongly support-

ed by the Deputy Land Officer, under whose immediate supervi-

sion Mr.Wong has served for nearly 19 years.

As Mr.Wong's salary ( 720 per annum) is

over 50 a month he did not benefit from the general increase

in the salaries of the Chinese employees of Government sanction-

ed in your despatch No.48 of 1900.

I now recommend that in view of the res-

ponsible and important nature of this officer's work and his

long period of good service, his personal allowance of $ 360

per annum should be raised to 480, and that the increase

Ter

94994

99

The Right Honourable

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN,M.P.,

20.

8cc.

&C.

should