CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3] — Page 535

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We submit that a bachelor Government servant cannot live and hope to save anything for his passage home under $300 a month, while a married Civil servant of necessity requires much more. As it is a Junior Assistant is receiving less than $200 a month. Thus not only is an unfair bar put upon marriage but the Civil Servants have to eke out the means of livelihood from private sources. Most of the large Hongs and Business firms in the Colony have made allowance in the shape of bonus, compensation, or some form of immediate relief for circumstances which are entirely exceptional and which if unrelieved will become intolerable.

We have, etc.

(Here follow 8 signatures).

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531 We submit that a bachelor Government servant cannot live and hope to save anything for his passage home under $300 a month, while a married Civil servant of necessity requires much more. As it is a Junior Assistant is receiving less than $200 a month. Thus not only is an unfair bar put upon marriage but the Civil Servants have to eke out the means of livelihood from private sources. Most of the large Hongs and Business firms in the Colony have made allowance in the shape of bonus, compensation, or some form of immediate relief for circumstances which are entirely exceptional and which if unrelieved will become intolerable. We have, etc. (Here follow 8 signatures).
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531 elɗn wom Vaj 1790" IstvaIon aldu 80° a17 to 10 geshturno stored Yan vet tot nol'iJmg ungmen 9. J .astrolo 9.* 10% - døde to guidera ? Anita oz. sið sanatoni qlish Jnomía mif" nałɔe od au to ened, cari di raxanı 14Club silt To BJJI Coulazi u nuo ni sabørneb mild song aruteď Judyner Elvin » da www sætion add met #C* AJRo TT! ■unom a ¿?að sunda beying m nĀTN # of Je 0.0 Juoda hovieony wef 001 da zaw Tob » Bait RSA ANTİMOST O guja ja ei nalluħ dytt Aku! A et xi.” We submit that a bachelor Government servant 1 cannot live and hope to save anything for his passage home under $300 a month, while a married Civil servant of neces- sity requires much more. As it is a Junior Assistant is receiving less than $200 a month. Thus not only is an un- fair bar put upon marriage but the Civil Servants have to ⚫ke out the means of livelihood from private sources. Most of the large Hongs and Business firms in the Colony have made allowance in the shape of bonus, compensation, or some form ofimmediate relief for circumstances which are entire- ly exceptional and which if unrelieved will become intoler- able. We have, etc. (Here followƒ 8 signatures). dnom & 0007 VENRAY a od och om ei neol eld JAVA Daire 3 sule 077 & ai jud t¬naface to anoidantovit aserband ande mild dhild groomerit bys -svita o alev add oeseront Io mi nem mavon erfd vd sbær atɔATINDO OJ sub azol aciod ef btworin der ɑdie was Dvið s mod Jon .melon add no xat a *i sit ni .. < BE FO *d we bu aleed medf9ta la que revią ever ynə£00 .00.4 t trimentenzað $20.beaammoni avad muivi! to assing førɛoq bae (enut Istirot Berg* EIMY NOTO RWa~ h C i mnd actulsa o $10!! neys BT .&"Allob zi asNIANO bi hoci tried sy's BONTAİD TANJO ALL boeseroah (Ilba Ja Bom sivell doliw shit a adoly dro MI » od mwob nevs wog al and Boneq out mais quoi day ona 8759, 30mild mar anec Mal-sonaq old maid ono.”
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531

elɗn wom

• Vaj 1790" IstvaIon

aldu 80°

a17 to 10 geshturno stored Yan vet tot nol'iJmg ungmen

9. J

.astrolo 9.* 10% - døde to guidera ?

Anita oz. sið và sanatoni qlish Jnomía mif"

nałɔe od au to ened, cari di raxanı 14Club silt To BJJI

Coulazi u nuo ni sabørneb mild song aruteď

Judyner Elvin » ^£ da www sætion add met

#C* AJRo

TT! ■unom a ¿?að sunda beying m nĀTN # of Je

0.0 Juoda hovieony wef 001 da zaw Tob

» Bait RSA ANTİMOST O guja ja ei nalluħ må dytt

Aku! A et xi.”

We submit that a bachelor Government servant

1

cannot live and hope to save anything for his passage home

under $300 a month, while a married Civil servant of neces-

sity requires much more. As it is a Junior Assistant is

receiving less than $200 a month. Thus not only is an un-

fair bar put upon marriage but the Civil Servants have to

⚫ke out the means of livelihood from private sources. Most

of the large Hongs and Business firms in the Colony have

made allowance in the shape of bonus, compensation, or some

form ofimmediate relief for circumstances which are entire-

ly exceptional and which if unrelieved will become intoler-

able.

We have, etc.

(Here followƒ 8 signatures).

dnom & 0007 VENRAY

a od och om ei neol eld JAVA Daire 3

sule 077 & ai jud t¬naface to anoidantovit aserband ande

mild dhild groomerit bys -svita o alev add nå oeseront

Io mi nem mavon erfd vd sbær atɔATINDO OJ sub azol

aciod ef btworin der ɑdie was Dvið s

mod sď Jon

.melon add no xat a *i

sit ni .. < BE FO

*d we bu aleed medf9ta la que revią ever ynə£00

.00.4

t

trimentenzað $20.beaammoni avad muivi! to assing

førɛoq bae (enut Istirot Berg* EIMY NOTO RWa~ h

C

i mnd actulsa o $10!! neys BT .&"Allob zi asNIANO

bi hoci tried sy's BONTAİD TANJO ALL boeseroah (Ilba Ja

Bom sivell doliw shit a adoly dro MI » od mwob nevs

wog al and Boneq out mais quoi day ona 8759, 30mild mar

anec Mal-sonaq old maid ono.”

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