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RECE 12 OCT 03)
Government House,
Hongkong 10th September 1903.
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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your Despatch No. 282 of the 29th July regarding the appointment of Mr Messer as Assistant Land Officer for the New Territory, and venture to resubmit for your consideration the question of the salary to be
attached to the post.
2.
A higher salary than that of the Assistent Land
Officer in Hongkong was suggested in my Despatch No. 303 of the 19th
June, because the duties of the new post will be of a much more
arduous and responsible nature than those of the former. They will
also be more responsible and more arduous than those of the Assistant
Registrar General, the pay of which post is equal to that recommended
by me for the new office. As Mr Wesser's duties will be quite separate
and distinct from those of Mr Wakeman, there will be no anomaly in
giving the new Assistant & higher salary than that now drawn by the
Assistant Land Officer in Hongkong. It must also be remembered that
Mr Messer possesses a knowledge of Chinese which is essential to the
officer discharging the duties of a Land Officer in the New Territories
Mr Wakeman's position as senior will, however, be fully recognised as
he is the officer who should be selected to act, as Land Officer
during that officers' absence, for which his technical training
specially qualifies him.
3.
As the higher salary had been provisionally
inserted in the draft Estimates for 1904, which have now left the
Printers' hands, I have caused a note to be made of the fact that RIGHT HONOUORABLE
unless
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