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Sir,
In reply to paragraph 2 of your Despatch No. 23 of the 15th of last January, I have the honour to transmit for your consideration and approval the enclosed report of a Committee appointed by me, and consisting of the Acting Director of Public Works, the Acting Colonial Treasurer, the Deputy Superintendent of Police, and Mr. D. Wood of the Public Works Department, recommending certain increases in the House Allowances of a list of Officers in the Civil Service of this Colony.
2. Such allowances are not only granted to those Officers who are required to live in a particular part of the town near to their work, as the uniformly high rents in the Colony would make such a distinction valueless for practical purposes.
3. I am considering the possibility of erecting by degrees Government buildings and letting them to Public Officers at moderate rents, but I fear it may not be possible to introduce such a scheme on anything like a large scale into a Colony such as Hongkong, where suitable sites ...
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
80...
800 • *
BCC . *
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No.
·287.
closure.
4400
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July, 1901
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Goverment House,
Hongkong, 31st. July, 1901.
302
sir,
In reply to paragraph 2 of your Despatch
No. 23 of the 15th. of last January, I have the honour to
transit for your consideration and approval the enclosed
report of a Committee appointed by me, and consisting of the
Acting Director of Public Works, the Acting Colonial Treasurer
the Deputy Superintendent of Pelice, and Mr. D. Wood of the
Public Works Department, recommending certain increases in
the House Allowances of a list of Officers in the Civil
Service of this Colony.
2.
Such allowances are mot only granted to
those Officers who are required to live in a particular part
of the town near to their work, as the uniformly high rents
in the Colony would make such a distinction valueless for
practical purposes.
3.
I am considering the possibility of
erecting by degrees Goverment buildings and letting them to
Public Officers at moderate rents, but I fear it may not be
possible te introduce such a scheme on anything like a large
}
scale into a Colony such as Hongkong, where suitable sites
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
80...
800 • *
BCC . *
in
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