CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6] — Page 11

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194.

Hongkong.

enclosure 1. 4th 25th 2- bruary 1903. atb

C.O.

17001

9

!! MAY OF

Government House,

Hongkong, 9th. April, 1903.

sir,

I have the honour to transmit for your

consideration the enclosed Petitions from (1) Chinese Members

of the Subordinate Civil Service, and (2) Portuguese and

certain other Subordinate Members of the Service, in which

the petitioners ask for increases of salary or such relief as

may compensate them for the depreciation in the local purchas-

ing-power of their dollar salaries.

2.

I transmit herewith two schedules showing

what salaries were attached in 1898 to the offices now held by

the petitioners, and what salaries are provided at the present

time. They reveal the fact that in nearly every case substanti-

al increases in salary have been granted during the last five

Enclosure 2.

Enclosure 3.

years

I also enclose a Memorandum on the increases in

salaries of Subordinate Officers granted since 1898.

3.

I have no reason to doubt that the Sub-

ordinate Members of this Civil Service are receiving fair

rates of salary at present, especially when it is remembered

that the pension and leave privileges are more substantial

and openings for promotion generally more numerous in the

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,

Government Service than elsewhere. Where in some few cases

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

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