CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6] — Page 390

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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your two letters of the 13th April in which you ask that this Government should pay the Deputy Registrar of Companies a conveyance allowance of $75 a month and sanction the employment of an assistant at a salary of $120 a month. You also ask for a typewriting machine and some

text books.

You are at liberty to purchase the machine and send the bills to this Government the books have been ordered for you.

2.

Regarding the two other items I am to transmit the enclosed copy of a Despatch from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, which I regret was not sent to you earlier, from which you will learn that the Foreign Office had fixed the contribution of this Government to the Registry of Companies at Shanghai at £200 per annum.

3.

I am willing to make the contribution £300 per annum exclusive of registers, forms and stationery, but I regret that I am unable to accede to your proposals mentioned above which would mean raising the contribution by about £250 a year to £450 a year.

The allocation of the extra £100 a year I am content

to leave to you, remarking only that no conveyance allowance to any individual officer in this Colony exceeds 840 a month and that it is considered that part of the time of an assistant, for whom whole time there cannot be enough work, ought to be obtained for much less than

$120 a month.

I have, etc., (SD.) F. H. May,

Governor,&c..

Bir Everard H. Fraser, K.C.M.G.,

His Majesty's Consul-General,

SHANGHAI.

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