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Audit Clerk, Hong Kong, to the Comptroller and Auditor/general. 446

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closure in

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& A.G. 20.

Audit Office,

Hong Kong,

2nd November, 1900.

Sir,

I have the honour to submit, for your favourable

consideration, a request that my salary as clerk in the

Audit Office may be raised.

2.

The salary attached to the post is $80 a month

with Exchange Compensation.

3. When I accepted the post I was quite aware that

the salary was not intended to be sufficient to live on

but that, in addition, an allowance from home of £100 a

year was necessary.

4.

It is well known that the living expenses in the

Colony are increasing year by year, so much so that last

year a memorial, signed by prominent Civil Servants, was

sent to the Secretary of State, with the result that a Comm-

ittee, appointed by the Government to enquire into the

question, practically recommended an increase of salaries

throughout the Services

5. As was pointed out in the memorial above mentioned,

Rent has been doubled, wages to servants has been increased

30 to 35 %, and prices of food stuffs largely went up

between the years 1894 and 1899, and are now very much

higher than in the last named year.

6.. I beg to point out that I find it no longer

possible to live with £100 a year besides my salary, and

£150