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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 15th April, 1919.

In continuation of my Confidential

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Despatch of the 31st. March, I have the honour to submit the

following comments on the Report of the Commission on the

emoluments of the Public Service of the Colony.

2,

I agree generally with the first five

paragraphs of the report merely remarking that the arrangement

made in 1913 whereby 80 per centum of an officer's salary is

draw locally at 1/9 to the dollar has proved an immense boon

far exceeding so far as I am aware any concession granted to

officers in the Navy, Army or Consular Service or the Civil

Service in Malaya or Ceylon. It is true that the currencies of

other Eastern Colonies and Dependencies are on a gold basis, i but I have reason to believe that the cost of living generally

has increased elsewhere in the East though perhaps not to the

same extent as in Hongkong.

3.

I agree with paragraph 6 of the report. I have always considered that the adoption of a 2/- dollar for

local payments was the most convenient system that the

Government could adopt, and I would extend the privilege to

salaries paid in all places where the silver tael or dollar

is the unit of currency.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

VISCOUNT MILNER, G.O.B.,

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