CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908 — Page 371

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were inadequately paid.

vailed at Hongkong:

Exceptional conditions pre-

rents and the price of coal were

unusually high, the necessity of providing against

tropical heat in summer and keen cold in winter en-

tailed a large supply of clothes of different kinds,

the excessive moisture of the atmosphere destroyed

everything by mould and mildew, the journey home from

Hongkong was more expensive than from any other Crown

Colony.

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The present rise in salary has been effected in

spite of the fact that between 1892 and 1906 the sala-

ries of both the higher and lower officials had been

substantially increased.

overnor (in addition to

1892

$

1906

1907

2 houses allowed free)

28,800

€6,000

$60,000

cr.$54,000

olonial Secretary

7,200

nom. $10,800.

$16,200

(de facto$14,580)

CT.

Chief Justice

12,000

£2,000,

$20,000

(cr. $18,000)

huisne Judge

8,160

nom. $8,400

$12,600

(de facto

cr. $11,340)

Police Magistrate

6,648

nom.

$ 7,380

$11,700

(de facto

cr.

$ 9,963)

Becretary of the Government

2,166

£420

$ 4,200

(cr. $ 3,780)

Clerk

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