discharging important duties, and I submit it is better to concede $48 per annum gracefully then to have them discontented and petitioning.
4.
The following recommendations are my own and involve a further increase of $25 to the Chinese Staff for reasons given hereafter:-
The Mail man should have $12 a month. No. 1 Postman $15 and No.2 $12, No.1 Office Boy $12, the two others and eight Postmen $10 each, with the same allowances for English as are paid here, viz: $2 per mensem for colloquial English and $3 more for reading and writing English.
No.1 and 2 Postmen should receive Lodging allowance of $2 a month each.
5.
The attached sheet shows the pay now drawn, Mr. Dixon's recommendations and my own side by side. The Clerks' pay with the exception of the second has been approved for 1902.
6.
With regard to the Chinese it must be remembered that the British Post Office enjoys no monopoly in Shanghai the best equipped Post Office will infallibly be the best paying one. Efforts have been made to reorganise the office, and it would be false economy to stultify the exertions of the clerical staff by keeping an underpaid, discontented, and constantly changing Chinese staff.
7. The Agencies and Offices in China as a whole are remunerative. Increased outlay has resulted in increased revenue in the Colony (30% in 1896 and 38% on the increased outlay in 1900). There is no reason why similar results should not follow in Shanghai.
8.
خرید او راته بانوان با برند و او اوبه بود اما در عالم ماله بالرعاية الطلاق
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discharging important duties, and I submit it is better to concede $48 per annum gracefully then to have them discon- tented and petitioning.
4.
The following recommendations are my own and
involve a further increase of $25 to the Chinese Staff for
reasons given hereafter:-
The Mail man should have $12 a month. No. 1 Post-
man $15 and No.2 $12, No.1 Office Boy $12, the two others and
eight Postmen $10 each, with the same allowances for English
as are paid here, viz: $2 per mensen for colloquial English
and $3 more for reading and writing English.
No.1 and 2 Postmen should receive Lodging allow
ance of $2 a month each.
5.
The attached sheet shows the pay now drawn, Mr.
Dixon's recommendations and my own side by side. The Clerks'
pay with the exception of the second has been approved for
1902.
6.
With regard to the Chinese it must be remem-
bered that the British Post Office enjoys no monopoly in
Shanghai the best equipped Post Office will infallibly be
the best paying one. Efforts have been made to reorganise the
office, and it would be false economy to stultify the exer-
tions of the clerical staff by keeping an underpaid, discon-
tended, and constantly changing Chinese staff.
17. The Agencies and Offices in China as a whole
are remunerative. Increased outlay has resulted in increased
revenue in the Colony (30% in 1896 and 38% on the increased
outlay in 1900). There is no reason why similar results
should not follow in Shanghai.
8.
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