CO129-346 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [1-3] — Page 65

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Hongkong.

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My Lord,

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Government House,

Hongkong, 24th.January, 1908.

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Rer 22 FEB 08

With reference to Your Lordship's

Despatch No. 210 of the 3rd. of October and to previous

correspondence on the subject of the grant of house allow-

-ances to the Chief Resident Engineer, Kowloon-Canton Rail-

-way,

and to certain of his staff, I have the honour to

transmit the enclosed copy of a letter, with its enclosure,

from the Crown Agents for the Colonies and of the reply

which by my direction has been sent to them, from which

Your Lordship will observe that in view of the statement

by the Consulting Engineers that they did not intend that

the consolidated allowances of the Railway Staff should

cover house rent, I have decided to allow from the lst. of

January Mr. Eves a house allowance of £100 per ammum and

his staff resident in Kowloon house allowances of £60 per

Enclosure 1.

Ponclosure 2.

annum; and that the deductions for house rent from the

salaries of such of the staff as occupy quarters erected

at

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,

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