CO129-468 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [6-8] — Page 40

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Secretary of State for Colonies,

London.

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We European Officers Public Works Department Hong Kong

feel so dissatisfied with revised scales of our salaries,

in fact expressed in dollars are in many cases less than

pre-war salaries that we humbly petition Your Lordship to

withhold such scales and allow us to continue to draw

salaries, allowances and "ar Bonus on the scale hitherto

paid until Your Lordship has considered petitions which are

following.

Furthermore we humbly petition Your Lordship to grant

us additional temporary relief of ten per centum from

January 1920.

We further beg to ask that your decision may be sent by

cable.

June 11th. 1920.

European Staff.