CO129-558-3 Levy on Salaries- petition from Chinese Civil Servants 3-1-1936 - 19-12-1936 — Page 133

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YOUR PETITIONERS EARNESTLY PRAY that further

consideration may be given to the question whether the

levy should be inflicted upon their salaries and that

the levy be cancelled on the ground that they have

already suffered enough hardship through the increased

cost of living, that the margin for untoward contingencies

has generally disappeared, that with the prospect of

insolvency the temptation to borrow money will become

prevalent and that in all the circumstances the Govern-

ment be urged, if there be any need for economy in the

Colony's expenditure, to resort to measures other than

those which affect the income and livelihood of the

classes of Civil Servants which your Petitioners represent.

AND your Petitioners will ever pray etc.

Dated at Hong Kong this 17th day of March, 1936.