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From Mr.S.Moosa, Deputy Superintendent, Money Order Office.

To Commander *.C.H.Hastings, B.N., Postmaster General.

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General Post Office,

HongKong, 24th December, 1901.

Sir,

I most respectfully beg to bring to your favour- able notice the fact that the present salary of my post as Deputy Superintendent, Money Order Office, is barely sufficient

to live upon, consequent on the continual increase in the cost

of living and house rent. No relief in the shape of Exchange

Compensation is given as, notwithstanding that the adoption of

the Gold standard in India, has placed a further burden on my

income. All this in addition to the maintenance of a growing

family compels me to make another effort to enlist your

sympathetic endeavours to optala His Excellency's reconsidera-

tion of my request to be placed on a higher class in the

classification of the Subordinates of the Civil Service.

In my old post at $130 plus the allowances for

Contract Mail sorting I was drawing at times, more salary than

at present. With the advent of more onerous responsible duties,

especially at a time when the Superintendent is away and work-

ing daily long extra hours, one naturally expects to be

recompensed adequately for the services now performed. It is

however the reverse, and ay promotion instead of being finan-

cially beneficial to me is in the nature of a punishment by a

reduction