CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922 — Page 379

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Apert March, 1922.

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form you that, subject to your being passed by the Medical Adviser to this Department as physically fit for

service, he proposes to select you for probationary

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appointment as Aesistant Superintendent of the Botanical and Forestry Department in HongKong, with salary at the

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rate of 40 a year, rising by annual increments of £10

£700 to be a year. free, light and esniform

You will be éharzed-a-rent of £ per sent ́ of salary for Government quartore or quartere rented with tree quarts Government approval, While actually serving in the Colony you #ill-receive an allowance of $360 per annum to deveI the expenses of conveyance: Private practice is not allowed.

2. The currency of HongKong is a silver dollar currency, the exchange value of the dollar with sterling varying with the price of silver. sterling are paid to officers actually serving in HongKong

The salaries fixed in at a rate of conversion fixed by the Government. This rate is now 2/- to the dollar, but is liable to alteration. In view, however, of the fluctuation of the exchange value of the dollar, a temporary exchange allowance is payable, varying from nil when the exchange value is 4/4d or over, to 20% of salary when exchange is at or below 2/64.

3. It is to be understood that your engagement is in the first instance for not more than three years from the date of your arrival in the Colony, and that, if it is established to the satisfaction of the Governor that you

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