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To

Public Works Department,

Hong Kong,

June, 1920.

The Right Honourable,

Lord Viscount Milner, P.C., G.C.B., G.C.M.G. &c.,

His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies.

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Your Lordship,

We, the undersigned, Land Surveyors of

the Public Works Department of Hong Kong, feel so strong-

ly the inadequacy of the new scale of salaries recently

communicated to us, that we humbly request Your Lordship

to re-consider the question, and respectfully submit

the following particulars for Your Lordship'e considera-

tion:-

1.

2.

We understand that the evidence produced

during the enquiry in the Spring of 1919 into

the cost of living in this Colony proved

conclusively that this had increased by 30%

since 1914, and we are informed by a responsi-

ble person who gave evidence at that enquiry

that the cost of living has increased by a

further 15% to 20% since that date, and that

there is every indication of a further rise

of at least 25% within the next two years,

We are of opinion that an officer should be

in a position to marry at the age of thirty

at the latest, and we consider that a salary

of $500.00 per mensen (2600 per annum) is the

minimum sum on which an officer can marry and

maintain his wife and possible family in that

degree