Enclosure in No168 of 29 April 1902,
REC
C. O.
21801
Harbour Department,
Hongkong, 4 April, 1902.
615
Sir,
We the undersigned, the first, second and third Clerks in the Department, most respectfully crave leave to lay before you the following statements regarding our positions in the Service of the Colony, in the hope that you may be pleased to submit them for the favourable consideration of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, supported by your kind recommendations.
2.
We do so with much diffidence, well knowing that the Government has of late been frequently troubled with solicitations of a similar nature. But existing circumstances leave us no alternative but to make an earnest appeal for some relief.
THE HONOURABLE,
3.
It seems needless for us to point out that all commodities of life have considerably advanced in cost; house-rent has increased enormously and the tendency is far towards yet higher figures; servants' wages have also risen: "in a word, the purchasing power of a dollar to-day is less than half of what it was ten years ago. We are thus, in common with others, placed in the sorry plight of having either to gradually drift into debt - a state of which we entertain the utmost dread - or be forced to deprive ourselves of the necessary comforts of life, with the consequent probable result of physical incapacity for properly discharging our duties.
R.MURRAY RUMSBY, R.N.,
HARBOUR MASTER,
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Enclosure in No168 of 29 April 1902,
REC
C. O.
21801
Harbour Department,
Hongkong, 4 April,1902. ̄
615
Sir,
-
We the undersigned the first, second and
third Clerks in the Department most respectfully orave leave
to lay before you the following statements regarding our posi-
tions in the Service of the Colony, in the hope that you may be
pleased to submit them for the favourable consideration of His
Excellency the Officer Administering the Government; supported
by your kind recommendations.
2.
We do so with much diffidence well knowing
that the Government has of late been frequently troubled with
solicitations of a similar nature. But existing circumstances
:: leave as no alternative but to make an earnest appeal for some
relief.
*
THE HONOURABLE,
3.
It seems needless for us to point out that
all commodities of life have considerable advanced in cost;
house.rent has increased enormously and the tendency is far yet
higher figures; servants' wages have also risen: “in a word, the
purchasing power of a dollar to-day is less than half of which
it was ten years ago. We are thus,in common with others; placed
in the sorry plight of having either to gradually drift into
debt -
a state of which we entertain the utmost dread
or be
'forced to deprive ourselves of the necessary comforts of life,
with the consequent probable result of physical incapacity for
properly
R.MURRAY RUMSBY, R.N.,
HARBOUR MASTER,
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