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Gentlemen,

In reply to your letter No. 146-M/S.A.J.19

of the 14th. ultimo, I am directed to inform you that this

Government regrets that it cannot see its way to grant house

allowance to, or otherwise increase the emoluments of, the

Chief Resident Engineer for the British Section of the Kowloon-

-Canton Railway, or the Assistant Engineer and Chief Store-

-keeper for whom the same indulgence is requested.

The principal argument advanced for such

grant is that the Officers concerned have to pay away a large

proportion of their salaries in house rent, while the other

members of the Railway Engineering Staff have quarters provided

for them. Complaint is made in this connection of the high rents

obtaining in Kowloon.

But it must be borne in mind that the

Engineers who are provided with quarters have to reside on the

works at a distance from civilisation and in unhealthy districts,

and that if rents in Kowloon are found to be excessive there is

no compulsion on the Officers who now reside there to continue

to do so.

Finally I am to point out how extremely

favourably the salaries of Mr. Eves and Kr. Baker at any rate

compare with the salaries of Engineers in the Colonial Service.

Mr. Eyes's emoluments amount to £1,400 per

whose annum, while the salary of the Director of Public Works,

duties are much more arduous and responsible, is only £1,170 plus $480 travelling allowance. Mr. Baker's emoluments amount to £650 per annum. Those of an Assistant Engineer in the Public The Crown Agents for the Colonies,

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