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"salaries of Hongkong Officers which is now taking place,

"it is proposed to alter the rates of pay of the Assistant

*Surgeons and to place them on a scale of £480 a year

*rising by triennial increments of 240 to £720 a year".

It should be observed in this connection that the salary

originally offered to Dr. Davies was £450 to £520 by £35

triennial increments.

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Again, in Mr. Chamberlain's Des-

-patch No. 138 of 9th. May, 1902, in referring to the ap-

-pointment of an additional Health Officer of the Port,

it is stated that "the salary of the appointment should be

*at the rate of 2480 a year rising by triennial increments

"of 240 to £720 a year without allowances of any kind and

*without the privilege of private practice, these being the

*terms which have now been fixed for Assistant Surgeons*.

I would also refer Your Lordship to paragraphs 3, and 4, in

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Mr. Lucas's letter of 5th. June, 1902, enclosed in Mr..

24 Chamberlain's Despatch No. 187 of 20th. June, 1902, and to

paragraph 5 of Mr. Lyttelton's Despatch No. 47 of 5th.

February, 1904.

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Further, in paragraph 4 of my

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Despatch No. 314 of the 12th. August, 1904, I referred to

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