LUNCH
AT
HOTEL CECIL.
To-day's Menu
165
þr the Colonies,
$1.10
Sir.
1.-Potage a la Reine
2.-Broiled Fish, Butter Sauce 3.-French Pork Chop Saute a la
Minute
4.-Stuffed Duck and Green Peas 5. Roast Sirlion of Beef
6.-Asparagus and Ham Jelly 7.-French Bean Salad
8.-Boiled Potatoes
--Baked Mashed Potatoes
9.-
(b)
10.-Stewed Cabbage
11.-Currant Biscuit
12.-Cheese
Fruit, Coffee, Tea.
monk song.
January 1930,
may
In the matter of
10.110 s
ong Kong Citizens veidub Civil Dervants
66
ʼn employees have had W_baLaBY_LEGLA FENTO, SHATRYAKống.
fortunate, to the GALI GI
¿d-age provision Inte...Valivoms with the vanishing-
17 tha
the WORKHOUSE
lave had usual large annual increments throughout slump & depression.
(b) have had this largely incremented salary BASICALLY INCREASED nú from Jan30
50% above citizen scale, (c) bince van 30 the Treasury rate of exchange has FURTHER INCRanbag this 100%
300% above citizen sosis, (d) Have their huge quickly earned pensiore awaiting them, not in depreciatedți
but in &'s STEKLIM.
(e) are y
endless privilegen * perquisites.
10 to 12 months" Vagation every_A3_or 2_yenɣu_op_FULL InY, Unlimited berthe salalph of (d) & (e), MORALLY, Civil bervants' salaries should be t of vitizenmå
OT (three) times greater,no at present.
-overnment pay, pension, pasquisites & privileges (for ex, giving unlimited
petrol to men, wives à families at 935 for which the oppressed Citizen paya.
of Britain.. is utterly foreign to Iratish justice, and is disprucing
INCREASE IN LIVINŰ COSTS.
wou.t
INCREASE, FIL.
Meat, Pagni Vegetables, Fish, Local Wages, Bhoes, Cloth, Nawapapera, Trams a Buses
Kilk 61%, Bread 20%, High Class Luxuries 25% to 75% All-round increase 25%
London price H.K, price #oreign Goods, considerably Libb than home prices 1,2, 21 London: $177 nereglo/6
Dee Leading article in K, K, "Daily Fress" 24/1/31,"Our amsing Dollar") admittin
that the purchasing power of the ☀ is almost as great as it was a year ago.
OVERNMENT SERVANTS will stress
DUT
== Hebe- their legal right to full Sterling equivalent
----- THEIR JŪLIAK HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN ARMAĦED JULIAN (SHEER SHYLOCKISM
60%
(b) that their ¿U% increased pay will be used for the purchase of English
Goods, BUT ---- don't you, sir, believe it Govt, wives are as canny as any,
and the surplus#+# will go where the 100's of 1000's of surplus went last
INTO THE JAM, and it takes some pass-book manipulation to dispose
year --- se va de
of all.
The Hong Kong FUBLIC will not be satisfied until those HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS (or is it MILLIONS?) OVERFAY through SIC INCREASE & EXCHANGE OUT OF PROPORTION TO INCREASED LIVING COSTS, stolen from them in 1930 and now reposing in Civil Servants' BANKING ACCOUNTS is refunded to the kublic purse, or in default, SUBTRACTED WITH_INTEREST from JUTURE INCREMENTS, The Hong Kong Publio ask for JUSTICE ONLY.
THE CIVIL
Sincerely,
SERVANTS "CUT" IS THE SAME THING
AS THE CITIZENS INCREASE; AND 1930 REMAINS.,
(ONLY FROM JULY 1930
DOUBLE SALARY BUT CITIZENS NO INCREASE "TILL JULY & THEN ONLY
"CUT RATE
V
THE HOME REMITTANCE ADJUSTMENT
KESTORES
IN EFFECT AND IN PRACTICE. THE AWFUL WRONG OF 19301
IT WILL SOLVE THE
LOCAL PASS-Book
Jalon for the
BANKING DIFF! - CULT
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