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(a). Single exchange compensation equivalent to about

30 40% of salary, 1894.

(b). Double exchange compensation, equivalent to about

60

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90% of salary, 1901.

(c). General increase, 1901.

(d). Rule of payment of sterling salaries when the

rate of exchange is at, above or below 2/- to the

dollar, 1907.

(e). Duty pay to sterling posts to which cadets have a

preferential claim, and to engineering staff of

the Public Works Department (with possible exten-

sion to other offices), 1911.

(f). Free passage scheme to subordinate officers, 1911.

9.

While fully recognising the necessity for these

various measures for the betterment of the conditions of

service of their brother officers, your Petitioners venture

to submit that the need for some relief exists equally in

their cas0 .

Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray

that Your Excellency may be graciously

pleased to recommend to His Majesty's

Principal Secretary of State for the

Colonies the grant to them of a general

increase of salaries, or, in the alter-

native, such other measure of relief

as the present enhanced cost of living

and other considerations may seem to

justify.

And your Petitioners will, as in duty bound, ever

pray,

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(Here follow 203 signatures.)

Hongkong, 9th. March, 1912.

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