Enclosure 3.
375
Actual Expenses, whilst occupying "The Bluff" during.
summer of 1906 which is a small house, the rent and taxSS
bolf, wife and daughter.
conesquently being low
persona
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Per Month.
(1)
Rent and taxes.
150
(2)
Hou ohold accounts, inclusive of liquors
fuel and light.
180
(6)
Household servants' Wagos no chair
coolies...
58
(4)
Tramway tickets (season)..
17
(b)
Club subscription.
17
(6) Linging lessons for daughter.
20
(7)
Pin money for wife and daughter.
40
(ક)
Board and Education, &c. of 3 eons in
England.
275
747
(9)
Balance available on average salary to
defray cost of clathes, all subs- criptions, incidental expense8, doctors' and dentists' accounts,&c.
Total average salary per month..-s
180
927
Highest monthly salary. Lowest
H
907.60 863.31
Practically no alteration has occurred in any of
the above items up to the present time and, as my average salary for the past three months has been $871, the balance available
for item (9) has shrunk to $124. No provision is made for
passages.
Living in the Hongkong Hotel and occupying two rooms at monthly rates costa almost exactly the same as the
The rent and above, the difference boing only a few dollara. taxes of "Lewknor" which I occupied for 6 months, amounted to
216 per month and the same rent was asked for "The Neuk".
which is a small house, somewhat inconveniently situated.
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