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Public Works Department,
Hong Kong
China,
15th. June, 1920.
The Right Honourable,
Viscount Milner, 0,C,B, eta.
Secretary of State for the Colonies.
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May it plense Your Lordship.
Your Lordship's petitioners are First Grade Land
Bailiffs in the Public Works Department, Hong Kong.
Mr. F. H. Dillon joined the liong Kong Government
service in the year 1901 and Hr. J. C. Mackay in the year
1904. Kг. F. H. Dillon has, therefore, about nineteen,
and Mr. J. C. Mackay sixteen years service.
(i).
(ii).
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2270.
The old salary of their post was £250
Your petitioners were recently informed that the
revised salary of their poąt would be £320 £360 by £10
annually, such salary to be paid at the flat rate of 2/-
to the dollar. This decision has caused them extreme
disappointment.
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Your petitioners are both men of long experience and
ability and consider the scale of pay, under the new
system, entirely inadequate as remuneration for the skill
and technical knowledge required by Goverment before
appointment to their posts, Neither is the new salary
sufficient to defray the cost of educating and "bringing
up large families with any reasonable measure of comfort
in this trying olimate.
Your petitioners are of a class who require technical
knowledge before appointment, and in addition to this, they
are required to be experts in the Chinese language, not
merely to speak Chinese in the ordinary way but to obtain
all
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