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Sir,

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REGFIVED

IN 1922 OGL OFFICE

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

HONGKONG. 6th May, 1922.

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

of your despatch No.52 of the 7th of February with regard to

the salaries of certain officers of the Public Works

Department.

2.

Since writing my despatch No.441 of 5th

December, 1921, I have given further careful consideration to the question of the emoluments received by Mr. Perkins.

as Director of Public Works and I have come to the conclusion

that, as matters stand, he is not adequately remunerated for

the work which he is doing. The great number of large

schemes now in hand or under consideration entail an enormous

amount of work on Mr. Perkins himself and I cannot speak too highly of the ability, zeal and devotion to duty which he displays. This great stress of work is to a considerable extent the result of the period of comparative slackness caused by the war, since a number of large schemes which would normally have come up one by one during a number of years now have to be dealt with simultaneously, and in ordinary circumstances it might be argued that this temporary period of over-work will be compensated for by a period of greater leisure later on but this argument will not apply in the present case. I now learn to my great regret that Mr. Perkins, who will be 55 next September, desires to retire from the service some time next year.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

WINSTON CHURCHILL, M.P.,

& C..

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