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        "content_text": "matter right, for.\n\nthe Colonel Post-\n\nto give rep\n\nin its\n\nOffice\n\naccounts into with\n\nthe Home for\n\nfor which it previously recommended\n\non account\n\nof this parcel.\n\nI have\n\nEntered\n\nTilley Eng...\n\nWith reference\n\nCorrespondence when has passed on the subject\n\nMAY 2\n\nBook of Leeds received at the Post Office for\n\nSir W. Hooker, Down...\n\ndisallowed by the Lords\n\nNewcastle to transmit the information\n\ndrafts to Lord..., Jenfor...lle af amatin\n\nAgents Governo\n\nthe Portman...Gent Thereto... copy of a\n\nRespect which Wisfrace...\n\nhas addressed to the\n\nActing for Otanghong\n\nrespecting\n\nthe Box.\n\nthe remission of Baliye Lane.\n\nIt appears that the original text was heavily distorted due to OCR errors. I have made the following corrections:\n1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., \"matten\" to \"matter\", \"recommed\" to \"recommended\", \"disolid\" to \"disallowed\", \"rearid\" to \"received\", \"rafts\" to \"drafts\", \"Respekt\" to \"Respect\").\n2. Fixed spacing issues and removed extra spaces.\n3. Rejoined broken sentences and reformatted the text into proper paragraphs.\n4. Indicated missing words with \"...\" (e.g., \"Tilley Eng...\").\n5. Preserved original page numbering and formatting as per the instructions.\n\nHowever, due to the heavy distortion and lack of context, some parts of the text remain unclear or nonsensical. Further clarification or additional context may be necessary to fully understand and correct the text.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-107 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [10-12]",
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        "content_text": "## MINUTE 25\n\nDie E. Rozen funded this to D. Alum. Received.\n\nArrival 7. Mr. Consul Brackenbury at Hongkong. Mr. Mercur.\n\nThe Acting Consul at Shanghai, A257.\n\nE Kam: 021. \n\nJohn Ein Caravell, FCS: ...\n\n408, 9 Feb 166, Jamducited.\n\nIn Lec (and well to branomit to zon for the information at the End of Clarendon) & with reference to zones.\n\nAust of the 22, a letter off a despatch from the Secretary of State stating there... it is the drains of the Coast of Boushing.\n\nIn Brackenbury, who has been appointed Consul at Manila, afford to assistance.\n\nAng DY he mung nguine in advice the postman. This Pfeil dubin So JR.",
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        "content_text": "Mitchell:\n\nRegistered............ 464\n\nIn any further correspondence on this subject, the above number should be quoted.\n\nCopy for info. No. 91-6 June 18, 1868\n\n4199\n\nRECEIVED\n\nJUNE 4\n\n1868\n\n585 Hong Kong\n\nGeneral Post Office,\n\nGeneral\n\nJune 3. 68\n\nI am directed by Portman, Acting Governor, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the 15th ult., transmitting Copy of Despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, forwarding a letter from the Chamber of Commerce of that Colony, in which it is represented that the hour of tide fixed, to Rderie fis Frederic Rogers, Esq.\n\nColonial Office\n\nA.M.\n\n \nPage 363\n\n...\n\nPage 363",
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        "content_text": "# THE MANILA and HONGKONG SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANY (Limited)\n\nIncorporated under the Companies Act, 1867. To establish telegraphic communication between Manila, the adjacent islands, Hongkong, and Singapore. By virtue of an exclusive concession from the Spanish Government for 43 years. Capital £300,000, in 30,000 shares of £10 each, of which £270,000 in paid-up shares are taken by the contractor. Deposit on application £1 per share, and on allotment £1 per share. Further payments: On the 1st April, 1870, £2; on the 1st May, 1870, £2; on the 1st July, 1870, £2; and on the 1st September, 1870, £2. **Interest at the rate of 5 per cent per annum will be paid by the contractors upon the paid-up capital of the Company until the opening of the line**.\n\n## DIRECTORS\n\n* Chairman - **WILLIAM T. MERCER**, Esq., late Colonial Secretary and Acting Governor of Hongkong\n* John B. Darvall, Esq., Q.C., Director of the Bank of Australia\n* Charles K. Dier, Esq., Lord's, Director of the British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company\n* William Maitland, Esq., formerly of Mackillop, Stewart, and Co., Calcutta, and President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce\n* William T. Harvey, Esq., late of Martin, Dyce, and Co., Java, Singapore, and Manila\n* Wentworth Sturgeon, Esq., 8, Gloucester-place, Portman-square\n* Jarous Whitlow, Esq., late of Gilman, Wray, and Co., China\n* Robert de la Condamine, Esq., late of Ker & Co., Manila; Syme & Co., Singapore; Pattle, Syme, and Co., Batavia\n\n## ENGINEERS, BANKERS, SOLICITORS, AUDITORS, BROKERS, SECRETARY\n\n* Engineers - Sir Samuel Canning (Consulting Engineer); Robert Sabine, Esq., C.E.\n* Bankers - For London, Messrs. Robarts, Lubbock, and Co.; for China, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation\n* Solicitors - Messrs. Steven Wilkins and Harrison, Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street\n* Auditors - Messrs. Jorrocks, Dover, Wintle, and Evans (And one to be appointed by the Shareholders)\n* Brokers - Messrs. Seymour and Elwyn\n* Secretary - George Armstrong, Esq., late of Hongkong\n\n## PROSPECTUS\n\nThis Company has been formed to purchase and carry out the exclusive concession, granted for 40 years by the Spanish Government, dated the 24th November last, to establish telegraphic communication between Manila, the Philippine Islands, Hongkong, and Singapore.\n\nThe proposed line and its connexions are marked upon the map accompanying the prospectus.\n\nThe capital now proposed to be raised will be to complete the first section, which will be laid from Hongkong to Manila, a length of about 659 nautical miles. Cables with the necessary connexions for connecting the principal places in the adjacent islands with Manila, estimated at a farther length, including land lines and cables, of 470 miles.\n\nCommunication with Europe, England, and America will be established by one of the following routes:\n| Route |\n| --- |\n| 1. Through the lines now in the course of construction by the British Indian Extension Company, the Anglo-Mediterranean, the Falmouth, Gibraltar, and Malta Telegraph Companies. |\n| 2. Through the proposed cable between Singapore and Calcutta, and thence through the Indian and Indo-European Company's lines, or those of the British-Indian, Anglo-Mediterranean, the Falmouth, Gibraltar, and Malta Telegraph Companies. |\n| 3. Through the Great Northern Company's lines, from Hongkong via Possietta. |\n\nCalculations have been made as to the probable results likely to accrue to the shareholders by the operations of this Company, and there is reason to believe that, taking messages between Hongkong and Manila, the messages which will be sent to Manila from the Port of Singapore, by way of Hongkong, and those which will be sent to Manila from Shanghai, Amoy, Foochow, and the various ports of China and Japan, and further calculating the increasing intermediate traffic of Manila with the rest of the Philippines, the results will eventually show, allowing 300 working days in the year, an annual income which will yield large dividends on the capital, after deducting £32,000 per annum for working expenses and £10,000 per annum to form a reserve fund for the repairs of the cables, &c.\n\nThe Spanish Government will aid the objects of the concession with ships of the navy as far as the service will permit.\n\nA tender has been accepted from Mr. W. T. Henley, of North Woolwich, which provides for the manufacture and laying of the cables, and for the erection of the overland wires, within 12 months, at a cost of £229,000. Until the submarine cable has been completely laid, £41,000 yet unpaid, and of this sum £25,000 will remain in the Company's hands until the line has been maintained in good working order for 6 months.\n\nThe contract also provides for the payment of interest, at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum, upon the paid-up capital by the contractor, payable half-yearly until the opening of the line, and the contractor takes £70,000 in fully paid-up shares.\n\nA copy of the Concession published officially in the Madrid Gazette, with the notarial stipulations; and copies of the agreement with the Concessionaires for the purchase of their interest, also of the Memorandum and Articles of Association, and of the contract with Mr. W. T. Henley, can be seen at the office of the Company.\n\nApplication for shares, to be made in the accompanying form, should be left at the Company's London bankers.\n\nIn all cases where no allotment is made, the deposit will be returned without deduction of any kind.\n\nThe following contracts have been entered into:\n* 1870, February 14 - Order of Mr. W. T. Henley - accepted by W. T. Mercer, Chairman of the Company, on behalf of the Company.\n* 1870, February 3 - Agreement between Ward Lean and Charles William Graham, and William Thomas Mercer, William Maitland, and Wentworth Sturgeon, Esquires, on behalf of the Company.\n\n## FORM OF APPLICATION\n\nTo the Directors of the Manila and Hongkong Submarine Telegraph Company.\n\nGentlemen - Having paid to your bankers the sum of £----, being a deposit of £1 per share, I request you will allot shares of £10 each in your Company, upon the terms of the Prospectus and Memorandum and Articles of Association; and hereby agree to accept the said shares, or any smaller number which you may allot to me, and to become a member of the Company, and I request you to place my name on the register of Shareholders in respect of the shares which may be allotted to me.\n\n1. Through the lines now in the course of construction by the British Indian Extension Company, the Anglo-Mediterranean, the Falmouth, Gibraltar, and Malta Telegraph Companies.\n2. Through the proposed cable between Singapore and Calcutta, and thence through the Indian and Indo-European Company's lines, or those of the British-Indian, Anglo-Mediterranean, the Falmouth, Gibraltar, and Malta Telegraph Companies.\n3. Through the Great Northern Company's lines, from Hongkong via Possietta.\n\nThis Company will thus be enabled to avail itself of the advantage of three competing lines of communication with the United Kingdom, Europe, and America, while it may be added that the through route, by way of Russia to England, will be most immediately completed by means of the section now in course of construction between Kiakhta and Shanghai, two competing lines being about to open communication between Shanghai and Hongkong.\n\nI am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,\n\nSignature in full,\n\nAddress in full,\n\nDate,\n\n## BANKERS' RECEIPT\n\nThe Manila and Hongkong Submarine Telegraph Company (Limited). Bankers' Receipt (to be retained by Applicant). No. Received the day of 1870, on account of the Manila and Hongkong Submarine Telegraph Company (Limited), from [Name], the sum of £----, being a deposit of £1 per share on application for shares of £10 each.\n\nFor the Manila and Hongkong Submarine Telegraph Company (Limited).\n\n## MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION\n\n1. The name of the Company is the Manila and Hongkong Submarine Telegraph Company (Limited).\n2. The registered office of the Company will be situate in London.\n3. The objects for which the Company is established are the constructing, maintaining, working, and using telegraphic communication between Manila, Hongkong, Singapore, and the islands of the Eastern Archipelago, or some of such or points adjacent thereto, or forming part of the intended route or routes between those places, or some of them, and between such places or any of them, and (as and when authorized by extraordinary meeting of the shareholders) branches from and extensions of any of those lines to such countries or places as the Company thinks fit, the establishment of telegraph stations, and generally carrying on the business of a telegraph company; the acquiring, working, leasing, using, and disposing of such lands, telegraph lines, vessels, concessions, privileges, leases, and other patent rights, and any shares or interest therein respectively as may be useful or desirable for the purposes aforesaid, or any of them; the dealing with all or any of these matters or things in conjunction with any other company or person; the registration or constitution of the Company as a Société Anonyme or otherwise; the subscribing for and acquiring shares of or amalgamating with any sharing in the profits or undertakings of any other telegraph company or concern, and the making and carrying into effect of working, traffic, and other agreements with governments, railway, postal, telegraph, and other companies and authorities, and the doing of all such other things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objects.\n\n4. The liability of members is limited.\n\n5. The capital of the Company is £300,000, divided into 30,000 shares of £10 each.",
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        "content_text": "VIA MARSEILLES.]\n\nMaritime Intelligence—See page 80.\n\nThe 21st ult.\n\nLondon and China Telegraph.\n\n紙\n\nPUBLISHED WEEKLY ON ARRIVAL OF THE P. & O., MESSAGERIES, AND PACIFIC MAILS FROM CHINA, JAPAN, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, &c.\n\nIN CONNECTION WITH THE \"LONDON AND CHINA EXPRESS.\" A WEEKLY SUMMARY FOR THE OUTWARD MAILS.\n\nVOL. XIV. No. 481.]\n\nJAPAN—Yokohama...\n\nCHINA—Peking....\n\nLONDON, MONDAY, NOV. 18, 1872.\n\nLatest Advices.\n\nHOMEWARD.\n\nReceived Nov. 14\n\nOUTWARD.\n\nPORTS.\n\nFrom London. Arrived out.\n\n  \n    \n    Aug. 9\n    Sept. 26\n    Oct.\n  \n  \n    Yokohama\n    \n    \n    2\n  \n  \n    Osaka and Hiogo\n    July 26\n    12\n    Sept. 29\n  \n  \n    Hakodadi\n    26\n    7\n    \n  \n  \n    Nagasaki\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Tien-tsin\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Chefoo\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    New-chwang\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Hankow\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Kin-kiang\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Chin-kiang\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Shanghai\n    Ang. 1\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Ningpo\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Foochow\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Formosa\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Amoy\n    75\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Swatow\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Hong Kong\n    23\n    \n    Oct. 1\n  \n  \n    Canton\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Macau\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    PHILIPPINES—Manila\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    COCHIN-CHINA—Saigon\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    SIAM—Bangkok\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    BORNEO—Labuan\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Sarawak\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    JAVA—Batavia\n    \n    Sept. 15\n    \n  \n  \n    Samarang\n    \n    Rept. 24\n    \n  \n  \n    Sourabaya\n    \n    30\n    \n  \n  \n    MALACCA STRAITS\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Singapore\n    \n    \n    Oct. 2\n  \n  \n    Penang\n    \n    Oct.\n    \n  \n  \n    CEYLON—Galle\n    \n    Sept. €\n    20\n  \n  \n    Colombo\n    \n    20\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    19\n    22\n    24\n  \n  \n    \n    22\n    26\n    9\n  \n\nVia San Francisco.\n\nTHE MAILS, &c.\n\nThe French mail, bringing advices as above, was delivered via Marseilles, on the 14th inst., four days in advance of its due date. The next inward (P. and O.) mail, with dates Yokohama 9th, Shanghai 11th, Hong Kong 17th, Singapore 24th Oct., is due, via Brindisi, on Monday, the 25th inst.\n\nTelegrams by the China Submarine and Red Sea Lines are being received with the usual regularity, occupying, allowing for difference of time, five to six hours in transmission.\n\nList of Passengers.\n\nPASSENGERS INWARD.\n\nBy this mail to Marseilles, per Messageries Maritimes steamer Péluse, arrived Nov. 12—From Yokohama: None. From Shanghai: Messrs. Bromley, Nathan, Billion, Mr. and Mrs. Crawford, Mr. and Mrs. Duncan. From Hong Kong: Messrs. Portman, Bennett, Tatham, Herviz, Serratè. From Saigon: Messrs. Rapine, Berthet, Coutel, Mr. and Mrs. Vogt. From Batavia: Messrs. Lapice, Grebbe, Rierach, Pauvert. From Singapore: Messrs. Carbonell, Laragora, Lazaro, Veiga, Mr. and Mrs. Schulze, Mdme. Gonzales. From Galle: Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan.\n\nPASSENGERS OUTWARD.\n\nPer P. and O. steamer Pekin, from Southampton, Nov. 7.—To Yokohama: Mr. S. Yugawa, Mr. S. Okuma, and one second-class passenger. To Shanghai: Mr. G. Lethbridge, Mr. G. R. Johnston, and one second-class passenger. To Hong Kong: Mr. K. Mac Iver, Mr. T. E. Ludlam. To Ceylon: Mrs. F. Bayley and child, Mr. J. R. Loftus, Mr. Reid, Mrs. Robertson and child, Miss Burrington, and two second-class passengers. To Hong Kong (via Bombay): Mr. W. H. Fittock. To Batavia: Mr. Burgoyne.\n\nPer P. and O. steamer Malta, from Venice, Nov. 15.—To Yokohama: Mr. and Mrs. A. Exner. To Hong Kong: Mr. D. Petrie. To Ceylon: Mr. Quilty, Earl Grosvenor, Marquis of Stafford, Viscount Lewisham, Dr. Gould.\n\nPer P. and O. steamer Malta, from Brindisi, Nov. 18.—To Shanghai: Mr. and Mrs. H. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson.\n\nPer P. and O. steamer Moulmein, from Southampton, Nov. 24.—To Shanghai: Mr. W. S. Wulff. To Singapore: Miss Rickards. To Ceylon: Mr. Bell, Lieut.-Com. Ryland, Mrs. Ryland, Mr. G. V. Macdonald.\n\nPrice 9d. Subscription, £2 2s. per annum, Postage included.\n\nPer P. and O. steamer Simla, from Venice, Nov. 29.—To Singapore: Mr. and Mrs. J. R. MacArthur, Mr. G. Harrison.\n\nPer P. and O. steamer from Southampton, Dec. 5.—To Hong Kong: Miss McPherson.\n\nPer French mail steamer Dupleix, from Marseilles, Nov. 24 (booked from London).—To Shanghai: Mr. and Mrs. Holdsworth. To Hong Kong: Mr. M. Beart. To Rangoon: Mr. Eugène Blainville, Mdme. Nisou, Mr. M. Engelbach, Mr. M. Mether, Mr. and Mrs. Van der Voest de Bye. To Batavia: Mr. and Mrs. Hora Siccama, Mr. and Mrs. Kleberg, Mr. Shalten, Mr. R. W. Baxter, Mr. John S. Dick, Mr. Alton Mees, Mr. and Mrs. Van Gaens, Mr. Ker Khouw. To Galle: Mr. H. Nagel.\n\nPer French mail steamer Ajaccio, from Marseilles, Dec. 8 (booked from London).—To Yokohama: Mr. Carl Friedrich, Mrs. A. Morf. To Batavia: Mr. G. Muller.\n\nSummary of News from the Far East.\n\nJAPAN.\n\nYOKOHAMA.\n\nThe present French mail brings advices from this port to the 25th September, but by the Pacific mail the dates extend to the 2nd October; the P. and O. mail from London July 26 arrived out on the 8th; the French mail of Aug. 2 on the 20th, and the P. and O. mail of Aug. 9 on the 26th September.\n\nThe following summary of news is from the Japan Herald:—The chief event since last mail has been the hearing before a Japanese tribunal of an action brought by Captain Hereira, of the Peruvian barque Maria Luz, for the recovery of the coolies who since the decree of the Court in the trial of the captain for cruelty towards them have been living ashore at the cost of and under the surveillance of the Japanese authorities. The case commenced on the 18th September, and judgment was rendered on the 27th. Mr. F. V. Dickins, Barrister-at-law, appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Davidson, barrister, appeared for the defendants. The Court gave judgment in favour of the defendants.\n\nIt is not the intention of Government to allow foreigners to lease residences in the city of Yedo. All those who were granted permission are notified that they cannot remain longer than one month from date, and are required to return to Tsukiji.\n\nThe Consuls have just been notified of an important departmental change. All claims of a judicial character, instead of being as heretofore addressed to the Chiji of the Kanagawa Ken, are now to be sent to Mr. Nishi Naromori, Shio Chiu Hanji, the President of the Judicial Department of this ken, which from this date will exist as a separate department. Mr. Hill is appointed its legal adviser, and Mr. Wills to act as interpreter in conjunction with two native interpreters.\n\nIt is some time since Yokohama was visited with an earthquake of such unusual violence as that which occurred yesterday morning. The shocks were both lengthy and severe, in one instance knocking several ornaments from a chimney-piece to the floor, and in another, half emptying some fire buckets of their contents.\n\nIt is reported that Mr. Galy has been appointed to the post of interpreter to the Judicial Department, by the Minister of Justice, and Mr. Ribérolles as principal of the newly-established Law College.\n\nFire-rio kinsetsu, of the new issue, printed on foreign paper, are already imitated, spurious notes being in circulation. The Government asserts that the paper and engraving are correct, but the ink used for Japanese seals is too light.\n\nMr. English, Consul at Niigata, is about being transferred to Osaka, where he was formerly stationed, recent occurrences in that quarter having rendered such a step expedient.\n\nMr. A. M. Shillingford and Mr. W. A. J. Waters have been appointed assistants in the Okura-sho, to Mr. T. J. Waters, Surveyor-General.\n\nA deputation of sixty persons has arrived at Kagoshima from the King of the Loochoos to the Mikado, and may be expected...",
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        "content_text": "Lan ... Returned ... on sick leave.\n\n... from whom we could make personal enquiries about Mr Jenn ... to Al ... you ... therefore kindly inform L ... whether Mr. Luina has obtain ... leave of absence ... and ... not ... on his way home ... if the latter ... will you favour ... me with the name and address of any gentleman who has lately returned from Hong Kong to ... you.\n\nApologizing for this trouble, I remain, Yours faithfully, George Cook ... Gordon Gairdner Esqr.\n\n...\n\nDear Mr. Laird,\n\nWould you please have this answered? ... The writer.\n\nMr. G. G. Coah, DYER HOUSE, Mungaree, Postman B., Wednesday.\n\n...\n\nH ... K ... L ...\n\nPage 150\n\nPage 151",
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        "content_text": "Land disposal would be very difficult. We are quite willing to meet his wishes, but there is no objection to his repeating writing as he thought fit.\n\nHe appears to me a straight forward man, without much ability of a high order, & without very good manners, but I should expect he would, with health, be a good police officer in a second rate Colony.\n\nRuth Res 11/72\n\nI do not see what more can be said to Mr Greagh than was said in W. Holland's letter of April 22nd.\n\nReply that Mr. Creaghi's previous application duly noted, but that, for the reason stated in W. Holland's letter of April 22, Lord K. would not feel justified in holding out to W. Creagh much hope that his Lordship would be able to comply with his wishes.\n\nERW July 13/72.\n\nRaffe K July 14/72.\n\n21 Orchard Street, Portman Square\n\n18th July 1872\n\nDear Mr Herbert,\n\nIn conversation the other day you mentioned that my request to be transferred to the Cape - or some other Colony - might be reconsidered. When I submitted my application for leave - which I now enclose.\n\nYou will recollect that I entered The Hong Kong service from India and was induced to remain for five years on the understanding that arrangements would be made by which my Hong Kong service would be admitted as service towards pension from the Indian Govt. But now that I wish to return to India I find that the Governor of Hong Kong is unable to make any such arrangement - I have therefore to decide between remaining in the Colonial service, and cancelling all my present service under Government by returning to India.\n\nAccording to the Indian regulations I should have no claim upon the Government in the event of my being obliged - even by ill health - to resign my appointment before I had performed fifteen years service which would now commence from the date of my return to India, and as",
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        "content_text": "War \n\nLand \n\nMisc \n\n0 \n\nIn this regard the 'H.Z. Semis' has 1/6 & 4 months of this 6 months respect. \n\nOn British Certificate then for might-have two months more. His print, wall next Blober, being done Expire so that Merinitione for a reference lie I.T. of some indulgence therm li hemi den Zitadia Sunice, U Muh around of \n\nLet him have the remaining half pay of the beneficial term on and of the requires more it must be that pay K intjat de afermer to the frenns until aborreply RM12/7 stoma bacon remains online. \n\n6934 21 Orchard Street 170 Portman Square, \n\nMy Lord, \n\nRECEIVED \n\n1872 \n\n8th July \n\nI have the honor to bee that inclose my leave certificate from the Hong Kong Government. and most respectfully I may be granted an extension of leave on half pay for six months. \n\nI was transferred by the Indian Government to Hong Kong in 1867 and am not entitled to the leave for which I now apply under the Colonial regulations \n\nWhen I obtained my leave in July last I had resided for upwards of twelve consecutive years in India and Hongkong as will be seen by the attached Certificate \n\nTo the Right Honorable the Earl of Kimberley Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies",
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        "content_text": "## \n1. A Personal Allowance of two hundred and forty dollars per annum to Mr Machado, salaries of two Chinese Assistants at Amoy.\n\n$240.\n\nI have informed Mr. Lister that, in view of the present financial position of the Colony, I am not prepared to grant or to recommend these increases. I however, transmit his recommendation for your consideration.\n\n2. A Personal Allowance of two hundred and forty dollars per annum to Mr Costa.\n\n$240.\n\n3. An Assistant in the Money Order Office at a yearly salary of four hundred and eighty dollars.\n$480.\n\n4. An Increase of twenty-four dollars per annum to the salary of the Senior Postman, and \n$24.\n\n5. An Increase of twenty-four dollars per annum to the salaries.\n\nPage 450  \nPage 451",
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        "content_text": "## 449\n\n1. The work of the Money Order Office has enormously increased in the world. The work has enormously increased, and is more than one Officer can reasonably be expected to attend to. I have repeatedly called attention to the arrears in Money Order work, but I am satisfied that the Superintendent of the Office has been working beyond his strength to keep everything up to date. Should his health break down, there is absolutely nobody to carry on the duties. He cannot go away for a single day, hardly an hour. This state of things will lead to a discreditable block and an outcry from the public unless proper assistance can be provided.\n\nWith the increase of business and receipts, though the incessant daily work of the Money Order Office has prevented my having any figures ready to submit on this head, I am satisfied however that the collections, which accrue under three heads, (1) Commission, (2) Small profit on exchange, (3) interest, will cover the salaries of the Superintendent and assistant. When it is stated that the funds on deposit to pay Money Orders exceeded $10,000 the other day, it will be evident how much the business has increased since the time when I had to beg an advance of $800 to carry on.\n\nThe next increase in order is that of $2 per month to the senior postman, who undertakes the whole work of distributing Chinese correspondence. He has been fifteen years in the service, is steady, hard-working...",
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        "content_text": "228 \n\n1 \n\nprevents this line being a very important factor in the mail routine, but it has been possible to establish, by its means, a direct Parcel Post to most countries of the Continent of Europe. There was no parcel post to several important European countries (France for instance) whilst the others were served by a circuitous route via Gibraltar and London. Only six parcels were despatched by the German Packet which left on December 27th. It might be well for German residents in China, who are desirous of getting out any small articles from Germany, to let their friends in that country know that they can now forward parcels not exceeding three kilogrammes in weight to Hongkong or Chinese ports at a fixed postage of Fr. 4.25 per parcel.\n\n7. The following figures as to the arrivals of the first two German mails in London may be of interest.\n\nFrench Mail\nGerman Mail\n\nLeft Hongkong\nSeptember 2\nSeptember 3\n\nSeptember 30\nOctober 1\n\nArrived in London\nOctober 4\nOctober 4\n\nDays\n32\n31/2\n\nNovember 1\nNovember 4\n\n32\n34\n\n8. A correspondence has taken place between the Imperial Post Office, the Colonial Office, and this Government, as to the renewal of the Contract for transporting the English mails between Brindisi and Shanghai. There were only three offers, those, namely, of the P. & O. Co., of Mr. ALFRED HOLT, and of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. One of the tenders of the first-named Company has been accepted, the mails to be carried for £265,000 a year for ten years. The report of this Department on the subject will be found in the Appendix (B).\n\n9. Although the proposed trans-pacific line of steamers between Hongkong and British Columbia will not do much for this Colony so far as postal matters are concerned, its establishment is to be desired on many other grounds. Since the Pacific mail packets commenced running between this port and San Francisco, correspondence with Canada has increased in the most marked manner, chiefly owing no doubt to the numbers of Chinese who have settled in Victoria (B. C.) and elsewhere.\n\n10. The dispute between the Pacific mail Company and the United States Government, which led to the discontinuance of carrying inward mails from San Francisco by the Company's vessels, has been adjusted, and the mails now arrive by every steamer from San Francisco as before. The inconvenience of having the return mails frequently despatched from here on the day fixed for the leaving of the English or French packet still continues.\n\n11. There has been no extension of Money Order business during the year, which is not a matter of regret, as the Money Order system was really growing too fast for the limited resources of the Department to keep pace with it. It has been found absolutely necessary to have more clerical assistance in the Money Order Office, and this has been provided without very much difficulty. The want of room, however, is increasingly and severely felt, and a simple remedy is not so easy to devise. The business of the Money Order Office, like too much of the work of this Department, is carried on in a dark and crowded corner, where literally there is often not room to turn, and where every square inch is economised as if it were a ship's cabin.\n\n12. This want of room is yearly becoming a more serious question. The Sanitary Board has pointed out that the quarters inhabited by the Chinese staff are overcrowded. They certainly are according to European ideas, even according to Chinese ideas there is not much room to spare. When foreign countries begin to claim their International right to have direct Parcel exchanges with Hongkong, it will be very difficult to see where the necessary room is to come from. A little additional space may be gained by building, and by a re-arrangement of verandahs &c., and then (unless it were possible to put on an additional storey) the limit will have been reached, and at much sacrifice of light and air. The Colony will be face to face with a demand for a new Post Office.\n\nThe present building was finished in 1865, and was evidently intended to be final. When the office is rebuilt it should be constructed, not for existing needs, but for those of twenty years later.\n\n13. The Secretary of State has consented, in view of the representations of this Department, to allow the employment of unsalaried probationers, in the Post Office only. Postal work is distinctly work which has to be learnt, a beginner, however intelligent, is somewhat worse than useless; he gets in the way, has to be shown everything, and he makes mistakes. Hence the desirability of having an extra hand always in training, so that when a vacancy does occur it has not to be filled by a raw recruit.\n\n14. It may perhaps be permissible to point out how, in this Office, unlike most other Post Offices, everything has to be filtered through two languages, one of which at least is but very imperfectly understood by many of the clerks who use it. At home a postman reads the address on a letter and delivers it accordingly. Here he depends on one or two hastily written Chinese characters, and if there happens to be a similarity in sound between the name as dictated, or as written, and some other name (Cooper and ... for instance) the chances of a mistake are very great.*\n\n*A letter was handed to a Chinese postman who was told to take it to Mr. X. one that did not lend itself to Chinese pronunciation, the sobriquet of long-bearded X. had been invented to prevent errors. The same difficulty \"Do you mean long-bearded X?\" he asked. The name being applies to names of streets, &c. Richmond Terrace is called the New six houses, West Terrace the Old six houses, the Albany is Figure 1 Bow Che (because of its shape). Pedder's Hill is the Two Flagstaffs (though there are no flagstaffs there now), the Wellington Barracks are called after a Chinese character (冖) which their ground plan is supposed to resemble.\n\n15. A Committee consisting of the Acting Harbour Master, the Director of the Observatory, and the Postmaster General was appointed to examine into the question of signalling the English mails from Kowloon Point. It was found impossible to devise any efficient and inexpensive signal which would not clash with the weather signals made at that station. It was therefore recommended that the use of the Kowloon Point gun for mail signals should be discontinued. Fortunately no inconvenience has arisen from the arrival of an unsignalled mail, a circumstance which may be due to an unusual freedom from fog during the year. It is to be hoped that some day all difficulties of this kind will be obviated telegraphic communication with the projected Gap Rock lighthouse, which would give the community here four hours notice of the approach of the mail.\n\n16. In the meantime a direct telephone line between this Office and the Peak signal station is much to be desired. What with clouds, night-fall, flags blowing straight on end, and other circumstances, the Post Office too often obtains the minimum rather than the maximum of information from the Peak.\n\n17. There have been two casualties during the year. The steamer Douglas was lost on February 10th with coast mails on board, which were not recovered. Communication between the Coast Ports and Hongkong having been interrupted for several days by the Chinese New Year holidays, the mails were unfortunately exceptionally heavy. The Madras was lost with a mail for this Office from Nagasaki. Most of the correspondence was subsequently recovered by H. M. S. Midge, and forwarded to destination.\n\n18. The service to Japan has gone on fairly well, the mails having been forwarded without many excessive delays. The English mail of January 22nd was sent on to Kobe in the City of Rio (via Yokohama). It would have been better to keep it here a couple of days longer for the Zambesi, but at the time of its despatch it was not known when that vessel would start. The English mail of September 3 was sent to Yokohama in the Claymore, whereas it should have been kept for the Stettin. The German service was a little new at the time, the Stettin was not notified, and it escaped notice that there would be a German Packet leaving within a day or two. As far as is known these were the only occasions on which this Office failed to secure the earliest opportunity for a mail for Japan except one instance (the French mail for Yokohama of October 22nd) in which it was so doubtful which steamer would arrive first that this office would not take the responsibility of diverting the mail from its ordinary route via Kobe. Against these may be set the fact that, on July 13th, the Agent of the Pacific Mail Co. courteously detained the San Pablo for the arrival of the English mail, thus saving the Yokohama community a delay of probably at least two days.\n\n19. The abolition of accounts with the London Office, referred to in the last Annual Report as under consideration, has been carried out, and our relations with the United Kingdom are now simply those of the Postal Union, with a special payment of £6,000 a year in addition. The saving of labour, copying, &c. is very considerable.\n\n20. The state of several of our Postal Agencies, specially those of Amoy and Foochow, was taken into serious consideration by the Government on the earnest representations of this Department. It was felt that the existing condition of affairs could not be allowed to go on, and that, unsatisfactory as it might be for Hongkong to be saddled with the whole expense of improving these Agencies, improved they must be—or abolished.* The Estimates for this year would accordingly have embodied provision for a considerable increase of staff at Amoy, had not a proposal been made which promised an entirely new departure.\n\n21. This was a proposal from Mr. Commissioner KOPSCH, on behalf of the Chinese Government, to take over, as a step towards the establishment of a national Post Office, the Postal work carried on by this Government at eight of the Treaty Ports of China. The report of this Department on that proposal will be found in the Appendix (C).\n\n22. Mr. Kopsch's scheme has of course raised much discussion, especially in Shanghai, where a public meeting was convened to consider the matter. The tone both of this meeting, and of the some articles and correspondence in the newspapers, was most fair, reasonable, and moderate. Some of the objections raised possess much force, though only one has as yet been put forward which can be regarded as a real obstacle to the proposal.\n\n23. How China may elect to develop her Postal system is not in any special way the affair of Hongkong, but a single remark on the subject may perhaps be allowable. To demand that so huge an Empire shall be covered with a network of courier services organised by the Imperial Government before that Government may attempt the much more modest task of carrying on the small coast service at present conducted by this Colony, is, as one of the speakers at Shanghai graphically put it, like insisting that a boy shall not go near the water till he has learned to swim. Any successful postal system in China must begin from the coast, and with steamer communication. It may then possibly be pushed up the rivers as steamers are admitted to them, and extended to a few of the shorter land routes, especially as railways are introduced. To make haste slowly should be the motto, and the avoidance of huge schemes like a pestilence the policy of the Chinese Post Office of the immediate future.\n\nThese remarks must not be taken as implying any reflection on the officers in charge of the Agencies in question, whose only fault was their inability to do impossibilities, or to be in two places at once.",
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        "content_text": "Temporary Inspector of Nuisances,- —- \n\nSalary, for 12 months, at $60 per month, .$720.00 \n\nNo. 3. \n\nAllowance for Rent at $15 per month,..................................... $180.00 \n\nAllowance for Chair in Summer, at $12 per month, for 5 months,....................................... 60.00 \n\n$960.00 \n\n80.00 \n\nSalary of a Postman. at $10 per month, from 1st April, 1887,.. \n\nExtension of the Light Keeper's Quarters at Green Island, .$1,500.00 \n\nConstruction of a Market at Hunghom, ..$6,000.00 \n\nEnclosure \n\nREPORT OF PROCEEDINGS \n\nOF THE \n\nFINANCE COMMITTEE, \n\nAT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG, \n\nOn the 11th February, 1887. \n\nPRESENT: \n\nThe Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (FREDERICK STEWART), Chairman \n\nHis Honour the Chief Justice (SIR GEO. PHILLIPPO, Knt.). \n\n306 \n\nC 0. 12761 \n\nThe Honourable the Acting Attorney General, (EDWARD JAMES ACKROYD). REGE29 JUN 87 \n\nthe Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE), \n\nHENRY GEORGE THOMSETT, R.N. \n\nPHINEAS RYRIE. \n\n2. Copies of the Minutes of the Finance Committee containing my \n\nminutes asking the Council to vote these sums and the recommendations of \n\nthe Committee are annexed in explanation of these votes. \n\nI have the honour to be, \n\nSir, \n\nmost Obedient, \n\nYour humble Servant, \n\nWONG SHING. \n\n1347 of 1886, \n\nand \n\n30 of 1887, \n\n23 \n\nJOHN BELL-IRVING. \n\n39 \n\nCATCHICK PAUL CHATER, \n\n11 \n\nABSENT: \n\nALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN. \n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER), by leave. \n\nThe Committee meet this day at the request of the Acting Colonial Secretary. \n\nThe Report of the proceedings of the last Meeting, held on the 21st ultimo, being taken as read, is confirmed. \n\nVillage Taxes. \n\nRead the following Minute by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government:--- \n\nW. H. MARSH. \n\nThe Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of $816 to defray the expenses of collecting Village Taxes and Squatters' Licence Fees, by the Treasury. \n\nThis service, which has hitherto been performed by the Registrar General's Department, is now to be carried on by the Treasury:- \n\n  \n    A. Shroff,\n    $240.00 per annum.\n  \n  \n    An Assistant Shroff,\n    180.00\n  \n  \n    A Coolie,\n    108.00\n  \n  \n    Indian Constable,\n    188.00\n  \n  \n    Contingencies,\n    100.00\n  \n  \n    \n    $816.00\n  \n\nThe sum of $613 will be saved in the Registrar General's Department, and is, therefore, \n\na transfer vote. The remaining $203 is the additional sum required. \n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 4th February, 1887. \n\nAfter explanation by the Acting Colonial Secretary, the Committee recommend that the amount be voted. \n\nThe Committee then adjourn sine die. \n\nLaid before the Legislative Council on the 4th March, 1887. \n\nRead and confirmed this 15th day of February, 1887. \n\nARATHOON SETH. \n\nClerk of Councils. \n\nFREDERICK STEWART, \n\nChairman.",
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        "content_text": "No. 310\n\nC... 3685 of 1997,\n\nREPORT OF PROCEEDINGS\n\nOF THE\n\nFINANCE COMMITTEE,\n\nAT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG,\n\nOn the 25th March, 1887.\n\nPRESENT:\n\nThe Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (FREDERICK STEWART), Chairman.\n\nHis Honour the Chief Justice (SIR GEORGE PHILLIPPO, Knt.),\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER).\n\nALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN.\n\nABSENT:\n\nThe Honourable the Acting Attorney General, (EDWARD JAMES ACKROYD).\n\nThe Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE),\n\nHENRY GEORGE THOMSETT, R.N.\n\nPHINEAS RYRIE.\n\nWONG SHING.\n\nJOHN BELL-IRVING.\n\nCATCHICK PAUL CHATER.\n\nThe Committee met this day at the request of the Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nThe Report of the proceedings of the Meeting held on the 11th instant, being taken as read, is confirmed.\n\nRead the following Minute by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government:-\n\nW. H. MARSH.\n\nChinese correspondence having increased very much of late, especially registered letters from America, the duties of the Senior Postman, who has to distribute all registered letters and obtain signatures to receipts, are now more than one man can accomplish in the course of a day.\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government, on the representation of the Postmaster General, recommends the Council to vote a sum of $80 to meet the salary of another Postman at the rate of $10 per month from 1st of April next.\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 22nd March, 1887.\n\nAfter explanation by the Acting Colonial Secretary, the Committee recommend that the amount be voted.\n\nThe Committee then adjourn sine die.\n\nLaid before the Legislative Council on the 1st April, 1887.\n\nRead and confirmed this 1st day of April, 1887.\n\nARATHOON SETH,\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\nFREDERICK STEWART,\n\nChairman.",
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        "content_text": "# MEMORANDUM EXPLAINING ALTERATIONS\n\n# OF ESTIMATES OF EXPENDITURE\n\nESTABLISHMENTS :-\n\n  \n    ESTIMATED FOR 1887\n    ESTIMATED FOR 1888\n    INCREASE\n    DECREASE\n  \n  \n    $\n    $\n    $\n    $\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    5\n    1,308\n  \n  \n    GOVERNOR\n    8,770\n    8,775\n    \n  \n  \n    COLONIAL SECRETARY\n    10,736\n    9,428\n    \n  \n  \n    AUDITOR GENERAL\n    4,638\n    4,808\n    170\n  \n  \n    COLONIAL TREASURER\n    6,080\n    6,424\n    344\n  \n  \n    CLERK OF COUNCILS\n    340\n    340\n    \n  \n  \n    SURVEYOR GENERAL\n    47,385\n    67,794\n    20,409\n  \n  \n    POSTMASTER GENERAL\n    27,372\n    27,408\n    36\n  \n  \n    REGISTRAR GENERAL\n    18,171\n    12,280\n    5,941\n  \n  \n    HARBOUR MASTER\n    39,820\n    44,362\n    4,542\n  \n  \n    LIGHTHOUSES\n    6,508\n    6,508\n    \n  \n  \n    OBSERVATORY\n    6,420\n    6,420\n    \n  \n  \n    COLLECTOR OF STAMP REVENUE\n    4,822\n    4,822\n    \n  \n  \n    GOVERNMENT GARDENS AND PLANTATIONS\n    7,794\n    7,818\n    24\n  \n  \n    JUDICIAL\n    34,253\n    35,597\n    1,344\n  \n  \n    ECCLESIASTICAL\n    1,158\n    1,158\n    \n  \n  \n    EDUCATIONAL\n    25,447\n    35,687\n    10,240\n  \n  \n    MEDICAL\n    19,758\n    22,222\n    2,464\n  \n  \n    POLICE MAGISTRATES\n    7,686\n    7,686\n    \n  \n  \n    POLICE\n    160,346\n    160,742\n    396\n  \n  \n    Carried forward\n    \n    $437,509\n    $470,229\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    $89,969\n    $7,249\n  \n\n# EXPLANATORY REMARKS\n\nDecrease in the Salary of Cadets.\n\nIncrease to Salary of 3rd Clerk, and Contingencies.\n\nIncrease in the pay of 2 Shroffs, and employment of a Constable for collecting Village Rates.\n\nStipulated Increase of Salaries to 2 Clerks of Works, and 3 Overseers. Salaries to Land Surveyors, Overseer of Buildings, and Land Bailiff. Also Salaries to Sanitary Surveyor, Inspector of Live Stock, 6 Foremen of Street Cleaners, Market Scavengers, Watchmen of Markets, &c. Additional Postman.\n\nMarket Inspector, Scavengers, and the rest of Staff transferred to Sanitary Sub-department.\n\nIncrease in Personal Allowance to 3rd Clerk, and Salaries to the Staff of Imports and Exports Office.\n\nStipulated increment to Head Gardener and 2 Apprentices Salaries.\n\nSalary and Allowance to Land Office Staff transferred to Establishment.\n\nIncrease in Salaries and Contingencies, to provide for the increased Staff of Masters required for the new Central School.\n\nIncrease to the Salary of Colonial Surgeon. Stipulated Increase to the Salaries of Apothecary, Student Apothecary, and Clerk, and Salary of an Assistant Apothecary.\n\nIncrease in the Salary of one Inspector, and Personal Allowance to Inspector Cradock, and re-Arrangement of Sergeants and Constables.\n\nPage 614",
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        "content_text": "facilities are being swamped by the steadily increasing contract mail work, that I trust it is not necessary to say much more on that point at present. It frequently happens that not a single postman goes out of the Post Office with a mail for anybody before 3pm, sometimes not even then. The state of affairs can hardly be called creditable. I shall perhaps not be regarded as stating an unreasonable position if I say that long since Hong Kong should have been organized to as good a Postal system as the Japanese have, much to their credit, since we surrendered the Post Offices to them about ten years ago. Passing through Japan last time, I could not but see how completely our Colony has been left behind in this matter. I will mention only one point. The Japanese Post Office delivers correspondence, and on board ships in the various harbours. The Hongkong Post Office has hitherto never ventured to attempt this, it has not had the means.\n\n## \nI have completely worked out the details of a scheme for Local Delivery, and, for the expenditure which will be now recommended (most of which will be recouped) the Colony will receive the following advantages: -\n\n(a) In the Town regular deliveries of Local correspondence quite independent of either the arrival or departure of Contract Mails. These deliveries would take place every hour, from 8.30a.m. to 8p.m. with only a slight interval about 5 o'clock (say 5 - 6.30p.m.) to allow the Chinese employed to take rest and food.\n\n(b) In the suburbs, three deliveries each day, morning, midday, and evening, with much better arrangements than are possible at present for delivery of Kowloon, the Peak, the villages, and on board ship.\n\n(c) A much quicker delivery of the non-boxholder's portion of the contract Mails, and, I hope, quicker delivery of all Registered Correspondence.",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure\n\n(4302\n\nCOLONIAL PENSIONS, &c.\n\n·\n\nRECE\n\n0.0.\n\n2962\n\nPARTICULARS required to be furnished in reference to Persons recommended for Superannuation, Compensation or Compassionate Allowances, or Gratuities on retirement.\n\n1. Name of Applicant.\n\n2. Office or Situation.\n\n(In filling up this Paper refer to the Instructions on page 4.)\n\nChing Quin\n\nCompradore in the General Post Office\n\n3. Recommended for.... an annual pension\n\n4. Age\n\n86\n\n5. Service in Years and Months 3 years\n\n6. Annual Salary or Wages\n\n7. Emoluments\n\nof $160\n\n10 actual 336.000\n\nNil\n\n136\n\nTotal amount of Salary or Wages and Emoluments on which Superannuation, &c., is claimed, $360\n\n8. Cause of Retirement.\n\nold age\n\nand ill health\n\n9. Dates of Commencement and Termination of the several Appointments held by Applicant, with their Emoluments, distinguishing Salary from other Allowances and specifying such Allowances.\n\n  \n    Title of Appointment\n    Date of Commencement\n    Date of Termination\n    Salary\n    Allowances, &c.\n    Nature of Allowances, &c.\n  \n  \n    General Post Office Messenger-Postman\n    1866\n    Dec. 30\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Do.\n    1867\n    1. June\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Shroff-Compradore\n    1868\n    1. July\n    1869\n    31 Dec.\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1871\n    1. Jan.\n    67Dec.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1871\n    1876\n    -\n    6 Dec.\n    13. Feb.\n  \n  \n    \n    72\n    84\n    Nil\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    дв\n    2. 216\n    \"\n  \n  \n    \n    1876\n    1009\n    14 Feb.\n    30 Nov.\n    360",
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        "content_text": "Subject: \n\nPostage Stamps &c. (Circ: 23 April 19.\n\nS. Settlements\n\n14. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 8. 12 (Rivoures). 26p. 32 cento\n\nPost Carn. 5. Couts.\n\nRevenue. 3 cents. issues of each.\n\nJasmania.\n\nReceipt. 3 cents (2 issues). 5. 10. 15 20. 25. 30. 50. 60. cents\n\n25 dollars.\n\n4. 10. pence\n\nTobago 2. 1. 3. 4. 6. hence 1 shilling\n\nCOLONY\n\n1. 2. 3. 5. 10. dollars\n\nnada\n\nOntario\n\nQuebec\n\nTransvaal 1. 3. 4. 6. pence 1. 2. Whitlings. Ravarene. 6. pence\n\n1. 1/6. 2. 5. 10. Whitlings\n\nTrinidad. 2. 1.\n\n1. 2. 5. 10. 20 pounds\n\n4d (2 issues). 6 pence. 1s (2 issues). Postlan\n\nTurks Islands. £. 1. 4. pence. 1. shilling\n\nin Islands. fr. 1. 1/2 pence\n\nVirgin\n\nNorth\n\nAustralian.\n\nNova Scotia\n\nNew Brunswick\n\nPrince Edward Island\n\nBritish Columbia...\n\nManitoba\n\nNorth West Territories\n\nNewfoundland\n\nNew South Wales\n\nNorfolk Island\n\nVictoria\n\nQueensland Tasmania South Australia\n\nAustralia.\n\nNew Zealand Fiji Islands Western Pacific High\n\nBritish New Guinea\n\nPost Card 1 1/2 from\n\nJamaica\n\n1. 1. 19%\n\n1. 2. 3. в. Натела\n\n5. 10. htt\n\nW. Australia. 2 pence. Revenue.\n\n1. 3. 5. 7/6. 10. 15. shillings.\n\nREMARKS\n\n161. 21 Any 1890. 17581.\n\n43. 16 June 1890, 12802 62. 77 July 1890. 15771\n\n81\n\n4 July 1890. 15774\n\n1090. 186696 93-17 July 1890\n\n38. 1 July 1890. 16918.\n\n37. 10 July 1890 - 16198.\n\n66.\n\n29 Sept 1890. 23014\n\n751\n\n71. 29 Aug 1890. 19553. Only Queensland Stamps\n\nEastern.\n\nMediterranean.\n\nAfrican.\n\nWest Indies.\n\nTurk's Islands British Honduras British Guiana\n\nBahama Islands\n\nJamaica Trinidad\n\nTobago\n\nBarbados\n\nWindward Islands-\n\nGrenada\n\nSaint Vincent Saint Lucia\n\nLeeward Islands---\n\nAntigua\n\nMontserrat (Saint Kitts\n\n(Nevis\n\nVirgin Islands\n\nDominica\n\nBermuda Islands\n\nHeligoland\n\n+\n\nBerbekareti falareks\n\nCape of Good Hope... Basutoland\n\nBritish Bechuanaland\n\nPretoria...\n\nZululand Saint Helena\n\nSierra Leone...\n\nGambia\n\nGold Coast\n\n23. 16 May 1890. 9450\n\n47-\n\n23 Jan 1890. 13575.\n\n44 - 21 Nov 1886. 13553.\n\n72. 2 June 1890.\n\n12505\n\nGibraltar\n\nMalta...\n\nCyprus\n\nCeylon\n\nHong Kong\n\nLabuan Mauritius\n\nSeychelles Islands\n\nStrait Settlements.....\n\nWB & L (3) -1087--150-3-90",
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        "content_text": "filled this important post not only most satisfactorily but with considerable ability.\n\nWith renewed thanks,\n\nI am your very faithful servant,\n\nWilliam Hobson.\n\n90-Gloucester Place,\n\nPortman Square, W.\n\n2nd December 1892.\n\nThe Right Hon: The Marquis of Ripon, K.G.\n\nSecretary of State for the Colonies,\n\nWhitehall, S.W.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI beg to apply on behalf of my brother, Mr Henry Edward Pollock, who is at present acting puisne Judge at Hong Kong, for the post of puisne Judge in the Straits Settlement, vacant by the retirement of Mr Justice Woods.\n\nMr. H. E. Pollock made a formal application to the Colonial Office last year with his testimonials.\n\nYour Lordship's Obedient Servant,\n\nChas Pollock\n\nPage 660\n\nPage 661",
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        "content_text": "C. 0.\n\n13027\n\n528\n\nREC? Bare 1 10 93)\n\n90 Gloucester Place\n\nPortman Square. W.\n\n31st July 1873.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI beg to apply in\n\nbehalf of my\n\nbrother Mr. Henry Edward Pollock, Barrister,\n\nof Hong-Kong, for the post of puisne Judge at the Island of Trinidad.\n\nI am, my Lord,\n\nYour Obedient servant,\n\nThe Secretary of State\n\nFor the Colonies\n\nWhitehall\n\n(7 Pollock\n\n3",
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        "content_text": "I think in view of the Petitioner's Letter of 25th June we should decline to interfere. He there admits his confidential guilt: but in a despatch of May that he must not adopt the same course again, as he had done years before. I remember when the Ordinance was passed, traps being laid similarly, though with marked money. I have spoken to M. Wingfield.\n\n2. See note annexed.\n\nBaoline to interfere C.P.L. 30 at once.\n\n**SECRETARY**\n\nJOME OF DEPARTM\n\nKay dear Wingfield.\n\nSTAY 91 Amy. 98.\n\nI find that opinion here is with the Opinion I expressed to you. There are several frauds and suicides connected with this mode of detecting crime.\n\nLanch many assic\" he derived unto action in marked ways.\n\n| Putting an sham letter | with money |\n| --- | --- |\n| in | the post |\n| Wee of the portion will |  |\n| Buying adulterated |  |\n| Putting | lill. in the post |\n\nwith the article suspected to be adulterated, they having it tested by inspectors of food (analysts).\n\na sham letter with money is it sent to particular postman's bay to see if he will take it. This by the first Mail.\n\nused",
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        "content_text": "Chinese Staff \n\nThe Chinese staff at the General Post Office requires considerable augmentation, the postal districts are too large and should be amended as shown in Appendix L; instead of 16, 26 are required; 18 for districts as shown in M.\n\nSix for Chinese letters and two for Chinese Registered letters; the present No 2 Postman secured for $500 and one another man. They could have a table beside the door in the second room in the Registration branch and the deliveries would be effected much more satisfactorily than at present.\n\nSix more messengers are urgently required at the General Post Office at present \" as I have represented elsewhere there is not a man to clean a window or wash floor. The only washing the Post Office ever gets is on a Sunday once a month after 9 a.m.\n\nThe name Messenger is a misnomer, these men are stampers, carriers of bags, packing and closing up mails. On the despatch of Contract mails for Europe the greatest scarcity exists; deliveries have to be delayed, postmen doing what messengers are supposed to do. When a postman is sick or on leave, a messenger has to take his place. Messengers are the under-studies of the postmen.\n\nThe work is being run now with so narrow a margin that almost any vacancies or absences threaten to dislocate\n\n278",
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        "content_text": "Beds\n\n312\n\nOne officer from each relief should attend to the taking in of correspondence at the Boxholder's window.\n\nHe should sit at a table facing the window & his time would be filled in by keeping the postmen's book & Pillar boxes books, & by copying work. He could also keep the circular book. To deal in an efficient manner with unpaid correspondence received would occupy the greater portion of the time of one officer from each shift of duties. The books to be kept are – the books supplied to boxholders, at present 133 in number; the large book in which unpaid correspondence for boxholders is first entered; the Town book in which unpaid correspondence for non-boxholders is entered & the postmen's book in which each postman is debited with the unpaid postage he has to collect. A further book should be provided in which should be entered unpaid correspondence kept till called for. The officers in charge of unpaid correspondence in addition to keeping the books mentioned would have to fill up & send out the printed forms used in the cases where unpaid correspondence is kept till called for.",
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        "content_text": "## Duties and hours of attendance of Chinese Staff\n\nPage 326\n\n**Compradore**, in charge of stamps and attends from \n9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on week days.\n\nThe **Shroff**, attends at 7 a.m. and sells stamps up \nto 9 a.m. when he is relieved by the Compradore. Assists the Compradore during the day.\n\n**Head Messenger**, on duty practically from 7 a.m. \nto 3 p.m. Principal duties - To look after the \npostmen and messengers; \nto see that the shifts of duties are in attendance at the proper \ntimes; to see that the mail carts and coolies are in readiness \nwhen required.\n\n**Office boy**, on duty from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Principal \nduties - To be in attendance at the Postmaster General's Office; \nopen mail bags, look after empty mail bags, and return those \nbelonging to other offices.\n\n**Marine Stampers**. Generally only one is in Hongkong. \nHe assists in the office from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is also in attendance when contract mails arrive or depart.\n\n**Postman No. 1 & 2**, deal with all letters received \nfor delivery to Chinese. They go out three times daily. No.1 assists \nin the office from 7 to 10 a.m. and No. 2 from 10 a.m. \nto 5 p.m. except when they have letters to deliver.\n\n**Postman No.4**. District Queen's Road Central from City...",
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        "content_text": "پیاد دروید \n\n327 \n\nCity Hall to No.5 Station. Goes out to deliver letters at 8 a.m., 10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m., 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. \n\nPostman No.5. District \n\nCochrane Street (W), Lyndhurst Terrace, Shelley St., Caine Road (W), Sing Wong St., and Gough St. from Hongkong Dispensary to Ullmann's Store in the Queen's Road. Goes out 3 times daily, one month at 8 a.m., noon, 4 p.m., next month 10 a.m., 2 p.m., and 8 p.m. Between the hours of 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. when not delivering letters, assists in office. \n\nPostman No.8 District \n\nAlbany and Peak Road. Goes out at 9 a.m., noon, and 5 p.m. Assists in the office from 7 to 9 a.m. \n\nPostman No.7 District \n\nCochrane St. (E), Old Bailey St., Caine Road, etc. Goes out 3 times daily, one month 8 a.m., noon, and 4 p.m., next month 10 a.m., 2 p.m., and 8 p.m. Between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. when not delivering letters, assists in the office. \n\nPostman No.8 District \n\nMosque Terrace, Mosque St., and Junction, Robinson Road, &c. Goes out at 8 a.m., noon, 2 p.m., 4 p.m., and 8 p.m. \n\nPostman No.3. District \n\nfrom Ship St. to Causeway Road. Goes out at 9 a.m., noon, and 5 p.m. Assists in the office from 7 to 9 a.m. \n\nPostman No. 10. District \n\nPraya central from Wing Sing St. to City Hall. Goes out at 8 a.m., 10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m., 4 p.m., and 8 p.m. \n\nPostman No. 11. Same District as No.7. Three deliveries daily, alternating with those made by No.7. Between 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. when not delivering letters, assists in the office.",
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        "content_text": "328\n\nwhen not delivering letters assists in office.\n\nPostman No. 12. Same district as No. 5. Three\n\ndeliveries daily. In office between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. when not\n\ndelivering letters.\n\nPostman No. 13. District\n\nCity Hall to Ship Street\n\nGoes out at 8 a.m., 10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m., 4 p.m., and 8 p.m.\n\na.3.\n\nPostmen No. 14 & 15. Peak District. Go out at 11.30\n\nand 3.30 p.m. Assists in office from 7 to 10 a.m.\n\nPostmen No. 13 & 21. Deliver Chinese letters from\n\nCanton and Macao 3 times daily. Assists in office when not\n\ndelivering letters.\n\nMessengers No. 32, 33, 34, 35 on duty from 7 a.m. to\n\n5 p.m. Take out carts. Carry bags in & out. Obliterate stamps; carry bags in and out. Clear boxes. Arrange letters on tables for clerks to make up mails. Sweeping up.",
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        "content_text": "COPY\n\n343\n\nSuggested alteration in the delivery districts, and increase of postmen.\n\nSection 1.\n\nPedders Street East, Queen's Road East (North side) to Ship Street Praya to Ship Street, Streets and lanes between Praya and Queen's Road, Two postmen going out alternately, Delivery every two hours.\n\nSection 2.\n\nPedders Street West, Praya to Wing Sing Street. One postman Delivery every two hours.\n\nSection 3.\n\nQueen's Road (North side) from Pedders Street to Wing Sing Street, and Streets and lanes between Queen's Road and Praya. One postman. Delivery every two hours.\n\nSection 4.\n\nQueen's Road (south side) from Wyndham Street to Ship Street, and including Zetland and Duddell Streets. One postman. Delivery every two hours.\n\nSection 5.\n\nWyndham Street (East side), Dairy Farm, Pedders Hill,\n\nSt.",
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        "content_text": "## Section 8\nQueen's Road (South side) from Wyndham Street to Hol... Station. One postman. Delivery every two hours.\n\nWyndham Street (West side) Glenealy Buildings, Okensaly to American Consulate, Wyndham Street, (both sides) from Glenealy Central Police Station and Gaol, Remedios Terrace and Arbuthnot Road, R. C. Cathedral. One postman. Delivery every two hours.\n\n## Section 8\nD'Aguilar Street, Stanley Street, Wellington Street, Pottinger Street, Graban Street, Cochrane Street, Peel Street, Aberdeen Street, Gage Street, Lyndhurst Terrace, Gough Street, Hollywood Road (both sides) from Pottinger Street to Ladder Street. Two postmen, going out alternately. Delivery every two hours.\n\n## Section 9\nOld Bailey Street, Staunton Street, Elgin Street, Bridges Street, Shelley Street, Caine Road to top of Ladder Street. One postman. Delivery every two hours.\n\n## Section 10\nMosque \n\n344 \n1. St. Paul's College, Ioe Bouse Street, College Gardens, Government Offices, Government House, Garden Road and Kennedy Road, Two postmen going out alternately, Delivery every two hours, Section 8. \n\nIt appears the original order was not strictly followed by the OCR. A more logical order is presented above.",
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        "content_text": "1.\n\n1.\n\n1\n\n3.\n\n345\n\nMosque Street, Mosque Terrace &c., Belilios Terrace,\n\nCastle Road, Seymour Road, Robinson Road from east end to Castle\n\nRoad. Two postmen going out alternately Delivery every two hours.\n\nSection 11.\n\nAlbany, Government Gardens, Peak Road &c. One postman.\n\nDelivery at ↑ ‘a.m. and 5 p.m.\n\nEastern District.\n\nShip Street to Causeway Bay Road One postman. Delivery\n\nat 9 a.m., noon and 5 p.m.\n\nEastern District.\n\nAll west of No. 5 Police Station, and all above and\n\nbelow Queen's Road. Three postmen. Delivery from Praya Post\n\nOffice every two hours.\n\nKowloon District.\n\nFour postmen. Delivery every two hours.\n\nPeak District.\n\nTwo postmen. Delivery at noon and 4 p.m.\n\nFor dealing with Chinese letters there should be six\n\npostmen, two of whom would deliver the Chinese letters from\n\nCanton and Macao. The other four would effect three deliveries\n\ndaily of Chinese letters from other parts.\n\ni.\n\nThe Registration Office. Two postmen.\n\n14.\n\nThere should be 14 messengers,",
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        "content_text": "# OOP Y. \n\nSir.\n\nN. 346 \n\nHongkong, 27th March, 1899.\n\nI beg most respectfully to apply for an increase to my wages, now $14 a month. I joined the Hongkong Police Force on the 24th June, 1889 and resigned on medical certificate on the 21st November, 1895 with a \"fair\" character. My wages in the Police were $15 a month. I joined the General Post Office on the 1st October, 1898 as Head Messenger at a monthly salary of $14.\n\nThe nature of my duties entail my attendance at the Office on ordinary days at 6.50 a.m., and I am practically on duty up to 6 or 7 p.m. daily, and on the arrival of contract mails my hours are even longer.\n\nI understand the No.1 postman is to receive $30 a month, No.2 $15, and the rest of the postmen and messengers $10 a month.\n\n**The Acting Postmaster General,**\nHongkong.\n\nI have etc.,  \n`Sd` Shiu Yaul",
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        "content_text": "481\n\n8. It was impossible to sweep away the whole of the old machinery, until fresh was available to replace it. Additions could not be made without sanction from England.\n\n9. It resolved itself therefore into a question of the personal element, pending the efflux of time.\n\n10. The personal element I submit, as far as it could humanly be expected, has effected radical improvements, complaints locally having almost entirely ceased,\n\n11. I attach a Return, showing the number of hours I have worked in the Post Office, and would respectfully submit, that 9 to 10 hours a day, Sundays and holidays included, is not the ordinary work which a Civil servant is expected to do, and that there is no other Civil servant who can show the same record.\n\n12. I have had to attend personally, to every detail, from a Postman's bag and rain coat, and the washing of the office, to things that might fairly be considered as appertaining to the duties of the Head of a Department. Books, registers, and every item, that goes to make up a well-organised department, I have had to start, and then watch to see them, books and registers, kept up in the face of a passive, sleepless, and stubborn resistance, to any and every innovation, or departure from old custom.\n\n13. Ideas of cleanliness, subordination, and veracity, were wanting, in nearly the whole of the staff, much of which",
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        "document_key": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899",
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        "title": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899",
        "content_text": "164\n\n5073\n\nI am to add that the Accounts of the Hong Kong Post Office with this Department are rendered in a satisfactory manner, and that there is no complaint to make as to the manner in which the mails are made up there.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nJ Marray\n\n{\n\nExtract from the Hong Kong \"Daily Press\":9\n\nTHE POST OFFICE.\n\n(Daily Press 31st October).\n\nCaptain Hastings in giving his decision in the Post Office cases at the Magistracy on Thursday, used very plain language in respect of the management of that important department. Want of direction, he said, was abundantly proved and the lack of system clearly shown. \"The Postmaster General frankly admitted his innocence of most of the internal economy of the Post Office, stating that when he wanted information himself he always went to Mr. Solly.\" When the new Governor arrives it is to be hoped that one of the first duties to which he will apply himself will be the placing of the Post Office on a more satisfactory footing. Skilled professional direction is required in the Post Office as much as in the Legal, Medical, Educational, or Public Works Departments, and we can only hope for efficiency when properly trained men are engaged. While the Department is in its present state of disorganisation in its higher branches, it seems to savour rather of the irony of justice that the humble subordinates should be so severely dealt with for acts of carelessness or laziness. No fraudulent intent was proved against the postmen sentenced to six months imprisonment; they had simply detained letters that they were too lazy to deliver. The offence no doubt calls for exemplary punishment, for the consequences of the non-delivery of correspondence may be most serious; negligence on the part of a postman may be almost as criminal as it is on the part of an engine driver, whom a momentary dereliction of duty may subject to a conviction of manslaughter. Still, the question presents itself, if CHENG TSANG and LI HO deserved six months imprisonment what would be the appropriate penalties for other officers of the department?",
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        "content_text": "It would be far safer if they return as Chinese than if they return under the protection of British jurisdiction.\n\nA Chinese British subject who goes up country, far from Consular Ports, runs a decided chance of being quite murdered, simply because he is a British subject.\n\nThere is a case constantly cited in connection with this part of the subject which may be told in a few words.\n\nThe British Consul at Amoy went to the local Yamun in behalf of a respectable Anglo-Chinese who had been illegally arrested and impressed. While the Consul was protecting him, another British subject was being beaten to death; and the Consul returned home almost at the moment that the mutilated Chinaman's body was, in mockery, deposited at his door.\n\nIt would, I think, be best to defer sending the petition to the F.O. I ask what reply should, in Lord Salisbury's opinion, be returned to it. [If any part of the statements in it are quite incorrect]\n\nT.C.M. 26/7 Before referring to F.O., wait till petition comes from Govr of Hong Kong and sends it & reports upon it.\n\nLord Charles Beresford retaining enclosures says that when the Govr sends it, it will have Mr. Chamberlain's full attention. Let me be informed at once.\n\nC.O. 76.07 July 22/95 10373 Recd REaP 24 JUL 19\n\n2, LOWER BERKELEY STREET, PORTMAN SQUARE July 22\n\nMy dear Thombet, I send you a copy of the Petition I mentioned to you as coming from Hong Kong. I hope you will deal with it with the consideration. I can vouch for the...",
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        "content_text": "596 \n\ndetail one of the clerks to clear it out. \n\nI cannot credit the statement that there were receipts found months in arrears: unless these receipts were for delivery in Hongkong and that they had been detained simply through inability to find out who they belonged to.\n\nRe the A.R. signed by Major Little. I beg to state that I never received it back from the postman who delivered it i.e. the letter to Major Little. However mistakes like that are of very frequent occurrence in most offices: Notably Indian Offices.\n\nThe enquiry in question was looked into a few days after I received it from the P.M.G. and should he care to closely examine the enquiry form, He will find the date of the arrival of the letter here and also the number of the receipt obtained for it, marked by me, on the left lower corner of the form. After I had marked down these particulars I handed the form to Mr. Victor, requesting him to look up the receipt. Mr. Victor had the form for nearly a week before I asked him for the receipt. He told me that he had failed to find it. I gave him three days to hunt it up; as I fancied that he had not gone thoroughly through the receipts; at the end of the three days he handed me back the form stating that he could not find the receipt, I",
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        "document_key": "CO129-299 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [5-6]",
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        "content_text": "# List of Chinese employees in the General Post Office who are to receive increases to their salaries in accordance with C.S.O. Circular No. 3 dated 5th March, 1900.\n\n| Office | Name | Present salary per month | Increased salary per month | Increase | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Shroff, Branch Post Office. | Mang Sai | $15 | $17 | $2 |  |\n| do | Kan Hoi | 15 | 17 | 2 | Asst. Shroff Regon. Br. |\n| Head Messenger | Lit Hol | 12 | 15 | 3 |  |\n|  | Chew Yuen | 14 | 16 | 2 | Office Boy |\n|  | Fu Yun | 12 | 14 | 2 |  |\n| Marine Stamper | Chan Kan | 10 | 12 | 2 |  |\n| do | Kwan Chik | 10 | 12 | 2 |  |\n| Shanghai. Shroff | Chung Ham | 27 | 31 | 4 |  |\n| Pos[t]man | Chung Kweli | 11 | 13 | 2 |  |\n| do | Sze Wei Yung | 10 | 12 | 2 |  |\n| Ningpo. Postman | Shan Hsu Ting | 7 | 9 | 2 |  |\n\n## Y. Note. Vide Estimates for 1900.\n\nIncrease $300 per annum.\n\n**(sd.) E.C. Lewis.**\n**Ag. Postmaster General.**\n**27/3/1900.**\n\nREC `11 JUN 00` \nPage: 3 \n52 \n18800",
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        "document_key": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]",
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        "content_text": "discharging important duties, and I submit it is better to concede $48 per annum gracefully then to have them discontented and petitioning.\n\n4.\n\nThe following recommendations are my own and involve a further increase of $25 to the Chinese Staff for reasons given hereafter:-\n\nThe Mail man should have $12 a month. No. 1 Postman $15 and No.2 $12, No.1 Office Boy $12, the two others and eight Postmen $10 each, with the same allowances for English as are paid here, viz: $2 per mensem for colloquial English and $3 more for reading and writing English.\n\nNo.1 and 2 Postmen should receive Lodging allowance of $2 a month each.\n\n5.\n\nThe attached sheet shows the pay now drawn, Mr. Dixon's recommendations and my own side by side. The Clerks' pay with the exception of the second has been approved for 1902.\n\n6.\n\nWith regard to the Chinese it must be remembered that the British Post Office enjoys no monopoly in Shanghai the best equipped Post Office will infallibly be the best paying one. Efforts have been made to reorganise the office, and it would be false economy to stultify the exertions of the clerical staff by keeping an underpaid, discontented, and constantly changing Chinese staff.\n\n7. The Agencies and Offices in China as a whole are remunerative. Increased outlay has resulted in increased revenue in the Colony (30% in 1896 and 38% on the increased outlay in 1900). There is no reason why similar results should not follow in Shanghai.\n\n8.",
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        "content_text": "197\n\n(4)\n\nthe bagging and closing of all local mails, other than those despatched by contract packets. He is doing more work than the Launch officer at Hongkong at a salary of $45 per month.\n\nMr. Solly applied for uniforms for the postmen, and Mr. Nicolle in his report, last year, recommended the same, but, as the question of the maintenance of the Postal Agencies was under consideration the Treasurer advised the Government to refuse the application. As there is no immediate prospect of abolishing this office I would again request that the question may be reconsidered, as the postmen here are at a disadvantage in delivering mail matter, as no coolie dare enter a merchant's hong by the front door.\n\nAll our postmen have therefore to effect their deliveries by the back door. All the Foreign Post Offices have their postmen clothed, and even the Telegraph Companies' messengers have khaki uniforms.\n\nIt is an anomaly therefore to witness our postmen delivering the most important letters in the Settlement garbed in faded and nondescript Chinese dresses.\n\nIn my letter No. 221 of the 17th July, I have asked that the postmen here may be placed on the same footing as their fellow confreres at Hongkong and I trust you will endeavour to obtain this concession, as the success of this office depends in a great measure on the work done by the postmen who, if a contented body, will perform it correctly and punctually, but, if otherwise, the work is scamped and slovenly performed.\n\nTo give you an idea of the insurmountable difficulties I have to overcome with an indifferent Chinese staff, I may mention that a gross violation of mails occurred last Sunday.\n\nPostman \n\n1",
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        "content_text": "198\n\n(5)\n\nPostman No.3, on taking out mails for the New York Export and Import Company, for delivery ex \"Empress of China\", very carelessly left them on the door steps at the back of the building trusting to good luck that the caretaker will see them, but some Chinese boys on passing espied the letters and tore open all the covers which fortunately contained nothing of value and scattered the contents. Fortunately they were picked up and replaced in the covers but the manager of the firm was in a terrible state at the occurrence.\n\nI had to obtain the assistance of the Police Detective to probe into the affair as the postman was suspected of having opened the letters, but it was proved otherwise.\n\nThe manager did not wish to prosecute the postman as all the contents were found correct and, on the advice of the Police, the matter was not made public but settled by the instantaneous dismissal of the postman with forfeiture of pay.\n\nComplaints as to misdeliveries, leaving letters on the stairs instead of taking them upstairs, throwing them into the kitchen, and slipping them through under the doors, and insolence, are of daily occurrence. When I arrived here in April last, but by weeding out the black sheep I am glad to say that the state of things has greatly improved, but the staff is practically new and it will require time and patience to bring them to perfection which state, I have no doubt, will be more easily arrived at if the men are better paid and encouraged to learn English by the prospect of receiving an allowance in addition to their wages.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Sd.) H. Dixon.\n\nActing Postmaster, Shanghai.",
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        "content_text": "200\n\n(2)\n\nof the members of the Chinese staff. The Chinese clerk gets a stipulated increment of $5 per month. The compradore is in every respect more worthy of it on account of his long service and more arduous duties. I find that it is imperative to have a Head Postman who will supervise and teach the almost new staff of postmen, we have at present, their proper beat and duties. It will greatly relieve the pressure on the compradore and I cannot find a more suitable person than the mail man who, on account of his seniority and experience, has a great influence with the men. If my suggestion to become a subscriber to the Local Post Office be approved two of the junior postmen can be detailed to assist the mail man in receiving and despatching mails, and on occasions when it is absolutely necessary that the mail man should himself take delivery of mails, such as by contract packets, his work of closing mails in the office can be performed by the Marine Stamper on shore. The two senior postmen should be encouraged to stay in the service by the prospect of a higher scale of pay than the rest who are entirely new men.\n\n(Sd.) H. Dixon.\n\nActing Postmaster.\n\n26/9/1901.",
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        "content_text": "A T SHANGHAI POST OFFICE. 201\n\nPro-\n\n  \n    Name and Rank.\n    Present Salary,\n    Proposed Salary.\n    INCREMENT.\n  \n  \n    1st. Clerk.\n    $120\n    $150\n    Rising to $175 biennially by $5 per month\n  \n  \n    2nd.\n    $100\n    $110\n    $125\n  \n  \n    3rd.\n    $60\n    $60\n    $70 annually\n  \n  \n    4th.\n    $45\n    $60\n    $70\n  \n  \n    5th.\n    $40\n    $40\n    $60\n  \n  \n    6th.\n    $40\n    $40\n    $60\n  \n  \n    Senior Marine Offr\n    $80\n    $80\n    $100\n  \n  \n    Junior\n    $70\n    $70\n    $90\n  \n  \n    \n    $35\n    $40\n    $50\n  \n  \n    Order Shroff\n    $12\n    $15\n    $20 by $1\n  \n  \n    Registration Office Shroff\n    $15\n    $10\n    $12\n  \n  \n    Brine Stamper\n    $12\n    $13\n    \n  \n  \n    Do.\n    $12\n    $13\n    \n  \n  \n    Office boy\n    $13\n    $10\n    $20\n  \n  \n    (Appointment not yet confirmed by Secretary of State.)\n    $15\n    \n    (To be Head Postman)\n  \n  \n    \n    $14\n    \n    $14 biennially by $1\n  \n  \n    (At present acting as Registration Shroff pending confirmation)\n    $12\n    \n    $12 biennially by $1\n  \n  \n    Office boy\n    $9\n    $9\n    $12\n  \n  \n    Office boy\n    $9\n    $9\n    \n  \n  \n    Postman\n    $10\n    $10\n    $12\n  \n  \n    \n    $10\n    $10\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    $6\n    $5\n    $12\n  \n  \n    \n    $12\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    $9\n    $9\n    $10 annually\n  \n  \n    \n    $8\n    $8\n    $10\n  \n  \n    \n    $8\n    $8\n    $8\n  \n  \n    \n    $8\n    $8\n    $8\n  \n  \n    \n    $8\n    $8\n    $8\n  \n  \n    \n    $8\n    $8\n    $10\n  \n  \n    \n    $8\n    $8\n    $10\n  \n  \n    \n    $8\n    $8\n    $10\n  \n\nMarried men with families, quarters not available, $2 house allowance each should be granted.\n\nThe usual allowance for knowledge of English should be allowed to the ten Postmen only on their being found qualified after examination.",
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        "content_text": "POST OFFICE.\n\nIncidental Assistance at the Agencies.\n\nEstimates 1902.\n\n  \n    Ningpo\n    180.\n    \n    Hankow\n    96.\n  \n  \n    Liu Kung Ten\n    192.\n    \n    Hoihow\n    84.\n  \n  \n    Canton\n    228.\n    \n    Swatow\n    612.\n  \n  \n    Amoy\n    432.\n    \n    Foochow\n    324.\n  \n  \n    C.S.O.2988/1901\n  \n  \n    Shanghai:-\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    No 1 Office Boy\n    144.\n    \n    Shroff Money Order Office\n    *\n  \n  \n    No 1 Postman\n    120.\n    \n    No 2.\n    144.\n  \n  \n    Mail Man\n    144.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    No 2 Office Boy\n    108.\n    \n    No 3.\n    120.\n  \n  \n    No 3. Postman\n    120.\n    \n    No 4.\n    120.\n  \n  \n    No 5.\n    96.\n    \n    No 8.\n    120.\n  \n  \n    No 7.\n    96.\n    \n    No 8.\n    120.\n  \n  \n    No 9.\n    96.\n    \n    No 10.\n    1,668.\n  \n  \n    One Marine\n    $3,816\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Stamper\n    156.\n    \n    \n    $4,272\n  \n  \n    \n    2,124\n    \n    \n    392\n  \n\nRemarks.\n\nPromoted. C.S.O.2261/1901 O.C.D. 283 of 1901. Appears under \"Personal Emoluments in 1902.",
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        "content_text": "127\n\n3\n\n£9\n\n£6\n\n15\n\nZ\n\n180\n\n87\n\nposition much were I chosen for an appointment at Hong Kong unless the salary was fully $12 per month (English equivalent) and that there would be prospects of further promotion.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYours respectfully,\n\nC.J. Benson\n\nPostman 695.",
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        "content_text": "COPY.\n\nThe Superintendent.\n\nSir,\n\nC.O. 24450\n\n13 July 1901.\n\nE. C. District Office,\n\n12 June 1901.\n\nWith reference to the notice which appears in the order book this evening inviting applications from Postmen for the position of Examining Supervisors at Hong Kong, I beg to offer myself as a candidate for the position, and at the same time I should be pleased if full particulars relating thereto could be given me.\n\nI beg to remain, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nT. H. Martin.\n\nPostman (456)",
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        "content_text": "24400\n\nX.\n\nR.C.D.O.\n\n13 June 1971.\n\n10 JUL 01\n\n89\n\nThe Superintendent,\n\nSir I beg most respectfully to offer myself as a candidate for one of the vacancies of \"Supervisor and Examiner\" at Hong Kong. I have completed 14 years service and I am 31 years of age.\n\nIf accepted, I should agree to the deduction for my Passage from my wages, should I return before the completion of 3 years service.\n\nI may mention that I have a good knowledge of French (Commercial and Conversational) and of German (Conversational) which should be of some use at an International Trading Centre such as \"Hong Kong\".\n\nIt is not without due consideration on my part with regard to climate and conditions that I write this application, but I should be glad of some information re percentage of Europeans attacked by plague or Fever.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYours respectfully.\n\nC.J. Penson, Postman\n\n696.\n\nPage 90\n\nPage 91",
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        "content_text": "Address reply to-\"The Secretary, General Post Office,\"\n\nquoting Registered No.421791/01.\n\nSir,\n\n220\n\nGENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON,\n\nC.C.\n\n16 December 1901\n\n\"L.O.P.\n\nAPPSC 17 JEG OL/\n\nWith reference to the further letter from the Colonial\n\nOffice dated the 15th ultimo (39196/1901) announcing that the\n\nscale of salary for the two Examining Supervisors required in\n\nthe Post Office at Hong Kong has now been fixed at £200 rising\n\nby annual increments of £15 to £245 a year\n\nconditions remaining the same I am directed by the Postmaster\n\nGeneral to state for the information of Mr. Secretary\n\nChamberlain that Mr. T.H. Martin, Postman, has accepted an\n\nappointment on these conditions and that Mr. R.A.J. Savage,\n\nSorter, who wishes to again become a candidate, can be recommen-\n\nded for the remaining appointment.\n\nIn these circumstances further applications have not been\n\ninvited.\n\nUnder Secretary of State,\n\nCOLONIAL OFFICE.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,",
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        "content_text": "therefore minimised, instead of practically eliminated as under the London system.\n\nPage 414\n\n20 With regard to the recommendations now made, viz, that two Examining Supervisors should be sent out from England and a detective employed locally, the salary I venture to suggest for the former is $1,440 a year rising by annual increments of $120 to $1,800. The man should be encouraged by the grant of teachers on the usual terms to learn Chinese, and on passing the regulation examinations in the vernacular and character be entitled to a pensionable allowance of $240 a year; without some such inducements men would not undertake the labour of learning the language. Interpreters would then be unnecessary,\n\n21 Men of the superior postman class with not less than eight years service could, I believe, be obtained for these wages £12 a month rising to £15.\n\n22 These salaries are practically the same as that of the Chief Clerk, but the latter's pay and that of the Accountant will very shortly have to be increased if capable men are to be obtained and retained.\n\n23 Increased numbers of European employees are being engaged in the Public Works and Sanitary Departments, and it is very desirable that a larger number of Englishmen should be provided for the Post Office.\n\n24 That the clerical staff should be interchangeable throughout the Colony is quite practicable, except, however, with the Post Office, where the work is different. In other Departments, whether in the Treasury a clerk is giving a receipt for a Crown rent, in the Police Office filling in a jinrickshaw license, or in the Harbour Office issuing a junk Clearance, the differences are more or less formal and in routine. In the Post Office the work is entirely different to anything the average clerk has been prepared for either by education or experience; further, the usual hours in Government office...",
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        "content_text": "As set forth therein.\n\n2.1 In conjunction with Sie W. Gamingue, it is advisable that no Chinese, except coolies, should be allowed to reside in the new Alemo buildings; but it is suggested that a valuable portion of the site should not be confined in order to accommodate the portman, especially for the sale of the remainder. May be prejudiced to some extent, and I shall be glad if you will consider whether it will be less expensive by alternation or by the purchase of another site elsewhere, or in some other manner.\n\n578",
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        "content_text": "with Professor Sumprae\n\n£250\n\nwere\n\nmonth and full\n\ntravelling expenses.\n\nFiquert you\n\nI am\n\nto ascertain\n\nfrom that gentleman, whose\n\naddress is 14 Glimcaster\n\nPlace, Portman Square W,\n\nthe sum\n\nto which he\n\nhave been paid and to\n\nremit to him such amount\n\nfrom Hong Kong funds as is\n\ndue\n\nto the date\n\nof his arrival in the\n\nCountry.\n\nCPL\n\nTelegram\n\nfrom\n\nHong Kong\n\nRi 25/12\n\nHong Kong\n\n8m\n\n33306 A\n\n630\n\nsent. 10.45\n\nrequesting many copies of\n\nCollins W 2010 Simpson report\n\nif sufficient could be printed\n\ndrafts",
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        "content_text": "constantly occurs. He should have sufficient assistance to allow all letters after being written up in Chinese to be checked before delivery.\n\n11.\n\nComplaints constantly crop up as to the non-delivery of local letters. In the case of the Peak and East and West Point deliveries, a record is kept, and the number of complaints has been very largely reduced in consequence, as the Postmen know that a strict watch is kept on them, and shirking is now difficult. To carry this out in the Town deliveries with the present staff is impossible, but if printed lists of each beat were prepared, and the number of letters for each address noted thereon, it would be practically impossible for a postman to escape discovery if letters were wrongly delivered or not delivered by him. This would remove from the Post Office the stigma at present attaching to it, which is such that Chairmen of Companies publicly announce that they dare not trust dividend warrants to the local post.\n\n12.\n\nToo much use has to be made of the Coolies in the Office without sufficient supervision, such as in date-stamping letters, giving them many opportunities for pilfering, and in clearing sorting pigeon-holes for delivery, allowing loopholes for mistakes.\n\n13.\n\nIf the Post Office is ever to be efficient, it must have a better-educated and more intelligent Staff and should be strengthened in the weak points I have drawn attention to.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Sa.) L. A. M. Johnston,\n\nPostmaster-General.",
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        "content_text": "No. 47.\n\nThe Honourable\n\nSir,\n\nNo.2.\n\nC\n\n25670\n\nGeneral Post Office\n\nHongkong, 3rd June, 1904.\n\n147\n\nI have the honour to submit for consideration the following increases to the Establishment of the General Post Office and to ask for authority to include them in the Annual Estimates.\n\nRegistration Branch:- 1 Chinese Clerk @ $660 - $840 urgently required to look after the delivery of Registered letters addressed to Chinese. At present the postmen who deliver these are under the No. 1 Postman who is quite unable to deal with them, although honest and willing. He cannot count above fifty and has his letters doled out in bundles of that number. This system of dealing with letters by numbers instead of by addresses is bad and should be abolished.\n\nGeneral Branch:- Four Clerks - 2 @ $960 - $1,080 by $60 biennially, 2 @ $660 - $840 do. Two to supervise the coolies at the stamping counter and drop-boxes and to assist in sorting. Two for general duty work.\n\nGeneral Delivery:- 2 Postmen at $132 - $144 to meet the increasing pressure on the town branches owing to new 5-storey blocks, and increase of population in Caine Road.\n\nShroff and Stamp-vendor at $240 to relieve alternately the present staff of four who are on duty all day and who cannot be dispensed with.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Sd.) L. A. M. Johnston,\n\nPostmaster-General.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary.\n\n4",
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        "content_text": "No.5.\n\nHon. Colonial Secretary,\n\nC\n\n25970\n\nRece Red 23 JUL 04)\n\n151\n\nAt present the Postmaster draws as under:-\n\n1904.\n\n  \n    Salary.\n    Good Conduct Pay.\n  \n  \n    1 Postman at..\n    $324\n    1\n  \n  \n    1 do.\n    180\n    \n  \n  \n    2 Postmen\n    144 each\n    \n  \n  \n    4 do.\n    132\n    \n  \n  \n    10 do.\n    120 plus $12 each.\n    \n  \n  \n    28 do.\n    120\n    \n  \n  \n    22 Messengers\n    120\n    \n  \n\nInstead of grading the men as in the Police I would strongly recommend the extension of the \"Good Conduct Pay\" and give every man with three years' service and a good record $1 a month, and after two further years an additional $1 a month. This would work out as follows:-\n\n1905.\n\n  \n    Salary.\n    Good Conduct Pay.\n  \n  \n    1 Postman..\n    $336\n    \n  \n  \n    1 do.\n    180\n    \n  \n  \n    2 Postmen.\n    144 each\n    \n  \n  \n    4 do.\n    132\n    \n  \n  \n    10 do...\n    120 plus $12 each.\n    \n  \n  \n    1 Postman..\n    $348\n    \n  \n  \n    14 do.\n    120 plus $12 each.\n    \n  \n\n1906.\n\n  \n    Salary.\n    Good Conduct Pay.\n  \n  \n    2 Postmen.\n    144 each\n    \n  \n  \n    4 do.\n    132\n    \n  \n  \n    10 do.\n    120 plus $24 each.\n    \n  \n  \n    14 do.\n    120 plus $12 each.\n    \n  \n  \n    10 do.\n    126\n    \n  \n  \n    10 do.\n    120\n    \n  \n  \n    22 do.\n    120\n    \n  \n\nThe advantage of this scheme is that it encourages postmen to work well as they know that the increase depends on themselves, and if a postman of some standing gets into trouble deserving punishment it can be inflicted by withholding his Good Conduct Pay for one or more months, whereas if he draws a certain increment he is less easily dealt with.\n\n17th June, 1904.\n\n(Sd.) L. A. M. J., P.M.G.",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure 5.\n\nHONGKONG.\n\n77\n\nNo. 1904\n\n30\n\n37866 1\n\nMEMORANDUM TO EXPLAIN ESTIMATES OF EXPENDITURE FOR 1905.\n\nLaid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor.\n\n\"\n\nNote.--1s. 8d., as for 1904, has been taken throughout these Estimates as the rate of conversion for sterling salaries and as the basis for payment of exchange compensation.\n\nPENSIONS.\n\nPOLICE.\n\nDeduct Pensions ceased.--The deductions are the outcome of protracted correspondence with the Indian Government,\n\nGOVERNOR.\n\nOTHER CHARGES.\n\nin\n\nNew Furniture. It is not anticipated that more than $4,000 will be spent in 1904 and the unexpended moiety is provided for 1905 to meet such requirements of Government House and Mountain Lodge as may not have been satisfied before the end of 1904.\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE.\n\n4 Passed Cadets.--Included in these is Mr. R. F. JOHNSTON who has been seconded temporarily as Secretary to Government at Weihaiwei, but is paid by that Government. Two Passed Cadets on dollar salaries have received substantive appointments. Subject to approval of the Secretary of State, one Passed Cadet, on sterling salary, has been appointed to the post of Assistant Secretary, Sanitary Board. There is reduction therefore of 3 Passed Cadets.\n\nAUDIT DEPARTMENT.\n\nIn the absence of any reason for providing the sums required at a special rate of exchange, the rate adopted for the whole of the Estimates has been adopted now for the first time for this Department for the sake of uniformity, and the sterling sums required have accordingly been converted at 1s. 8d.\n\nPOST OFFICE.\n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.\n\nAgencies in China-Shanghai.\n\nJunior Mail man.--This new post was approved on the recommendation of the Postmaster at Shanghai who stated that the growth of business necessitated the appointment of an assistant to the mail man already on the Estimates, who, unaided, was overworked.\n\nPostmen--The Postmaster reported that the growth of the European residential district, the increased bulk of inward mails, and the increased frequency of their arrival required the appointment of two additional Postmen.\n\nCanton.\n\nPostmen.--For some time past 3 Postmen have proved insufficient to cope with the delivery of letters over such a wide area as is comprised in the City and suburbs, Honam, Fati, etc., and the additional Postman was appointed in January last, being for 1904 paid out of savings.\n\nAmoy.\n\nPostmen.--A third Postman had been employed and paid $3 a month out of Incidentals. It is now necessary to provide for his services permanently and to give him $25 a month, $3 being insufficient for a suitable man. The additional",
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        "content_text": "3\n\nLAND REGISTRY OFFICE.\n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.\n\nPostman at $8 a month is also engaged as Sorter in the sub-office on the side of the Harbour opposite to the Agency. His services are absolutely necessary, additions were approved in February and are being paid for out of savings for the current year.\n\nOTHER CHARGES. Carriage of Mails.\n\nTransit Charges.-The increase under this head is principally due to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and the Steamship Companies represented by it demanding an increase in the amount hitherto paid to them for the conveyance of mails to the United States, and to the extension of the Parcel Post to that country.\n\nThe total is made up as follows :—\n\n  \n    United Kingdom,\n    \n    £5,593\n    @ 1/8\n    $67,116\n  \n  \n    Other Countries,\n    \n    2,230\n    \n    26,760\n  \n  \n    Conveyance of United States Mails to Manila and Manila Mails to United States,* Parcel Post,..\n    \n    945\n    \n    11,340\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    25\n    \n    300\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    £8,793\n    \n    $105,516\n  \n  \n    Canton Mails----- Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steam-Boat Company.....\n    \n    \n    $7,505\n    \n  \n  \n    China Navigation Company,\n    \n    \n    747\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    8,252\n    \n  \n  \n    Pacific Mail Steam-ship Company for conveyance of Hongkong Mails, etc., to San Francisco, etc., 45 trips at $195 a trip,\n    \n    \n    8,775\n    \n  \n  \n    For increase in correspondence to United Kingdom, etc.,\n    \n    \n    2,457\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    $125,000\n    \n  \n\nMaintenance of Gardens and Grounds.-The increase in this item is made up as follows:-\n\n  \n    Transferred from gardening operations in Cemetery,..\n    $800\n  \n  \n    Increase considered necessary for Cemetery,\n    200\n  \n  \n    Transferred from Maintenance of Government Office Grounds,\n    100\n  \n  \n    Maintenance of Peak Garden (C.O.D. 141 of 1904),............\n    100\n  \n  \n    Maintenance of Taipingshan Garden (C.O.D. 231 of 1903),...\n    500\n  \n  \n    \n    $1,700\n  \n\nSPECIAL EXPENDITURE.\n\nPurchase of Steam-launch.-The Government Marine Surveyor reported the Post Office Launch “Courier\" to be unseaworthy. She was fifteen years old and only able to make 6 knots. Her original cost was $5,250. She was sold by tender for $2,000 and a launch has been hired for the present at $120 a month.\n\nOBSERVATORY.\n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.\n\nCoolie Wages.-Owing to the impossibility of retaining the services of coolies at the former rates they have been raised one from $9 and two from $8 a month to $10 and $9 respectively.\n\nBOTANICAL AND AFFORESTATION DEPARTMENT.\n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.\n\nGardens, Forestry,--The items under these heads have been re-arranged and better classified.\n\nOTHER CHARGES.\n\nDraining King's Park.-No further expenditure under this head required at present.\n\nForestry, New Territory.-This item has been increased by £5,000, the sum of $8,000 being held to be a suitable annual expenditure for the present for beginning a more comprehensive scheme of afforestation in the New Territory which is rendered possible by the impending completion of the operations of the Land Court in investigating and settling titles. The arrangements contemplated are expected to yield a fair revenue in due course.\n\n* Refunds on account of these Mails are paid in as Revenue.\n\nClerk and Translator.--The salary of the holder of the office is at present $720, but he is expected to pass in 1905 as 2nd Class Translator when he will come on the scale provided.\n\nTemporary Clerk-This Clerk has hitherto been paid $1 a day out of lapsing salaries, but is now shown on the Estimates. It is possible that further clerical assistance may be permanently required for New Territory work.\n\nNEW TERRITORIES.\n\n2 Copying Clerks.-These posts have been placed in Class VIII of the classification scheme and made permanent, but the holders come on the scale at $300, the figure at which they were appointed.\n\nCoolies for Land Bailiffs.--Are required to carry maps, etc., for field work.\n\nOTHER CHARGES.\n\nIncidental Expenses.—Previous provision insufficient to meet increased wants due to increases of staff, electric lighting formerly paid for by Supreme Court, uniforms for messengers, and new furniture required.\n\nATTORNEY GENERAL AND CROWN SOLICITOR.\n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.\n\nCrown Solicitor's Clerk.-On the resignation of this Clerk recently, the Crown Solicitor requested that the Clerk's salary might be added to the item Expenses of Crown Solicitor's staff as no special work devolved upon this Clerk all the clerical work being divided between the various clerks employed by the Crown Solicitor, and this was approved.\n\nLAND COURT, NEW TERRITORY.\n\nProvision was only made for six months of 1904, but it became necessary to supplement this as the work of settling claims could not be completed by the 30th of June. A revised Estimate was laid before Council involving an excess of $7,746.80 over the original estimate and a further Supplementary Vote was taken later for $4,524 for the Staff required from the 1st June to the 31st of December, 1904, in connection with the work of Land Settlement, as apart from the investigation of claims, in New Kowloon and the New Territory. A vote was also taken for half of Mr. CLEMENTI's salary for six months from July to December to admit of the officer acting in Mr. CLEMENTI's substantive post of Assistant Registrar General drawing half salary while Mr. CLEMENTI was seconded to the Land Court. Other clerical assistance may still be required for 1904.\n\nThe work of hearing and deciding claims will be completed by the end of the year, and the Land Court consequently disappears from the 1905 Estimates.\n\n78",
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        "content_text": "Increase.\n\nStipulated Increments change Compensation\n\nIncrease of Salary\n\nNew Posts\n\n7. Post Office.\n\nPersonal Emoluments.\n\n$2,032 - Reduction\n\nDecrease.\n\non new appointments\n\n144. Abolition of Costs\n\n1,836\n\nAllowance for Extra Work\n\nGood Conduct Badges to Postman 168 Detective allowance\n\n5,403\n\n85\n\nRLAS.. 192-.\n\nClothing & Shoes, to Postmen, re-als, to, for Kean Launch fighting the Post Office\n\nSubsidy\n\nTransit Charges\n\nOther Charges.\n\nInform, ter for Postmen Canton\n\nTotal Increase\n\n250 - Contribution to Telephone Exchange\n\nRent of Branch office\n\nGratuities to Sorters' Masters\n\n6,000 - Advertising Costs Restante correspondence, Shanghai-\n\n15,000\n\n100\n\n3,000\n\n40 - Incidental Expense Uniform & fitting 160-\n\n22,540\n\n28,943\n\nDecrease\n\n4,392\n\nNet increase\n\n$24,546\n\n$3,860\n\nTotal Decrease $4,292.\n\nNet Increase $24,546.\n\nSpecial Expenditure\n\nPurchase of Steam Launch Asa\n\nStipulated Increments\n\nchange Compensation\n\n$5,000-\n\n8. Registrar-General's Department.\n\nPersonal Emoluments.\n\n$875- Inspector's Salary (corrected)\n\n334. Reduction on new appointments $4,159\n\nOther Charges.\n\nRent of Quarters for Student Interpreters\n\n14\n\n$394\n\nTotal Increase\n\nDeduct Decrease.\n\nNet Increase\n\n81/59\n\n586\n\nTotal Decrease $586\n\nPage information has been kept as is, assuming the original six-line format, though not visibly present in this snippet.\n\nChanges made:\n1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., \"Kipulated\" to \"Stipulated\", \"hcrease\" to \"Increase\", \"treal\" to \"Allowance\", \"Blothing\" to \"Clothing\", \"Kean\" possibly remains as is due to lack of clear correction, \"Contelbution\" to \"Contribution\", \"Gratuities to Si's Masters\" to \"Gratuities to Sorters' Masters\", \"ter\" to \"for\", \"fitching\" to \"fitting\", \"DeLust\" to \"Total\", \"tipulated\" to \"Stipulated\", \"Literbrites\" to \"Interpreters\").\n2. Fixed spacing issues (removed or added spaces as necessary).\n3. Rejoined broken sentences or reformatted text for clarity.\n4. Restored paragraph breaks where necessary.\n5. Formatted the text into HTML using `` for paragraphs.\n6. Corrected minor punctuation.\n7. Ensured file references (if any) were formatted correctly without spaces inside parentheses, though none were present in this snippet.\n8. Reorganized some parts to make more sense, like the table-like data at the end.",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nHongkong.\n\nC. O.\n\n34035\n\nRec'd 22 SEP 05\n\n167\n\nGovernment House, \nHongkong, 16th August, 1905.\n\nSir,\n\nReferring to the 2nd paragraph of your **Confidential Despatch** of the 25th May, 1905, in which you ask to be informed of the reply that should be returned to the question of the Postmaster-General as to the provision made under the new Postal Arrangement between this Colony and China for the conveyance by Chinese Service of mails from one British Ship of war to another, I have the honour to inform you that there will be no alteration from the practice at present in existence where the Imperial Chinese Post Office handles mails for such ships at places at which there is no British Agency. The mail bags are forwarded by the Chinese Post Office at which they are handed in to the Chinese Post Office of destination and are called for there by the Naval Postman or in special cases are delivered by arrangement to His Majesty's Consul.\n\n**RIGHT HONOURABLE** \nALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,",
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        "content_text": "Josidue s \n\ned ulioda vlek \n\nT \n\nCopy.\n\nInclo. in Sir 2, Satow's No. 87 of February 28th, 1906. 283\n\nH.M. Consul Kiungehow to Sir E. Satow. Accounts No. 2.\n\nKiungchow, February 3rd, 1906.\n\n13485 LAPR APR 21506\n\nSir,\n\nIn reply to your circular of January 10th, I have the honour to report on the postal management of the Hongkong Postal Agency at this port as follows:-\n\nThe Office of the Agency adjoins the Consular Office, occupying what is virtually the verandah on the west side of the Consulate, as shown in the accompanying sketch. The public entrance to both offices is identical, but they are otherwise quite distinct. With the exception of a writing desk which is the property of the Office of Works, the furniture and other articles used by the Agency have been supplied by the General Post Office Hongkong.\n\nThe constable Mr. W.F. Canning is Postal Agent and performs all the office postal work. He receives a salary of $35 a month.\n\nA postman at $10 and a coolie at $6 a month are employed for outdoor work, e.g. delivery of mails, carrying mail bags and boxes, circulation of mail notices, etc.\n\nThe Consul sees that the Postal Agent renders his accounts and remits any balance in hand to the Hongkong Office at the end of each month.\n\nThe present working of the Agency is, I believe, satisfactory to the public and to the Postmaster General Hongkong.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Signed)\n\nM. Hughes.\n\nActing Consul.",
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        "content_text": "In the matter of a collision \n\nbetween the United States' \"Alcxunder \n\nand the \"Tung On Tai\" junk -- \n\nlicence No. 401 which occurred \n\nin the Harbour of Hong Kong on \n\nthe 28th day of March 1906, \n\nGR874/67 \n\n168 \n\nIn the matter of a collision between \n\nthe United States of America Auxiliary \n\n\"Alexander\" and the \"Tung On Tai\" junk \n\nlicence No. 401 which occurred in the \n\nHarbour of Hong Kong on the 28th day \n\nof March 1906. \n\nSTATUTORY \n\nCopy \n\nDECLARATION \n\nof Wong A Pox. \n\nInterpreter: Mr. Rulien \n\nTonong. \n\nI, LAU YEE LIN (劉潤年) of No. 27 Reclamation \n\nStreet Yaumati in the Colony of Hong Kong, Postman, do solemnly, \n\nsincerely and truly declare and say as follows: \n\n1. Up to the 28th day of March 1906, I had for some four years previously been employed by one O Yung, junk owner and owner of the \"Tung On Tai\" junk. I was employed in the capacity \n\nof helmsman. \n\n2. Whilst in his employment, I made the journey to ... in the Empire of China on board the \"Tung On Tai\" junk many times. \n\n3. Shortly after 3 p.m. on the 28th day of March 1906, the \"Tung On Tai\" junk sailed from Causeway Bay in the Colony of Hong Kong on a voyage to ... with a full cargo of general \n\nmerchandise. I was at the helm. \n\n4. The weather at the time the said junk started from Causeway Bay aforesaid was fine; there was no fog or rain. There was very little wind, hardly enough to move the junk, and what wind there was was from the Eastward. \n\n5. I commenced the said voyage by tacking almost straight across the Harbour of Hong Kong heading South-West. I held on that tack for about half an hour. I then went about and tacked back across the Harbour heading South-East. The weather was still fine and there was still very little wind, and the junk was moving very slowly. The tide at the time was running \n\nabout half ebb. \n\n6. ...",
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        "content_text": "(K 12)\n\nRETURN of OFFICERS who have given Security for the due Discharge of their Duties,\n\n(K 13)\n\nprepared at the Annual Inspection of Securities, held on 7th February, 1907,-Continued.\n\n  \n    Name of Officer giving Security.\n    Exact Titles of all Appointments (either permanent or temporary) now held by him.\"\n    Nature of the Security given.\n    Names, Addresses, and Occupations of the Sureties in each Bond.\n    Title of Office in respect of which the Bond is given,\n    Date of Bond.\n    Amount of Bond as stated therein.\n  \n  \n    Lum Him,\n    Assistant Shroff,\n    Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally.\n    Law Shan Ting, Compradore, C. Abdoola & Co., No. 22 Gage Street; Chan Cheang Kwan, of the Hip Hing shop, No. 15 Stanley Street.\n    \n    18th December, 1906.\n    $300\n  \n  \n    Man Ki Hong,\n    Shroff, Money Order Branch,\n    Personal Bond with three Sureties, jointly and severally.\n    Lum Yui Sang, Owner of the Yeng Cheong Compradore shop, No. 15, Victoria Street; Cheong Sum Toi; and Young Yung Kwan, of Hong Cheong Bakery shop, No. 14, Victoria Street,\n    \n    16th March, 1896.\n    1,000\n  \n  \n    Chan U Pau,\n    No. 1 Postman,\n    Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally.\n    Leung Ngan Pun, Master of Mee Kee Hong, No. 28, Des Voeux Road; Li Chik Sang, Master of the Yea Chan, No. 10, Chiu Long Street,\n    \n    6th November, 1905.\n    500\n  \n  \n    Ho Kwan,\n    No. Postman,\n    \n    Su Sze, of No. 16, Upper Station Street; Chan Tack, of No. 25, Wing Wo Street.\n    \n    19th December, 1901.\n    500\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    Tsoi Chi, Master of the Kwong Tseung, No. 13, Circular Pathway; Cheng Un, Master of the Hang Un, No. 6, Kwong Yuen Street.\n    \n    17th July, 1905.\n    100\n  \n  \n    Leung Min,\n    Keeper of the Lan Shang Tea Shop, No. 22, Queen's Road West.\n    \n    \n    \n    15th December, 1898.\n    100\n  \n  \n    Postmen and others\n    \n    Bonds 59; Deposit Notes 19 of $50 each.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nAGENCIES.\n\n  \n    J. C. Kaye,\n    First Clerk at Shanghai,\n    Personal Bond with Two Sureties, jointly and severally.\n    J. A. Moller; W. R. Kobler.\n    \n    20th February, 1901.\n    $4,000\n  \n  \n    Peter L. Swenson,\n    Second Clerk at Shanghai,\n    Do.\n    Joseph Davison; Harry Thomas.\n    \n    20th June, 1906.\n    500\n  \n  \n    A. E. Gutierrez,\n    Clerk,\n    Deposit Note of the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank for $100.\n    \n    \n    3rd April, 1905.\n    100\n  \n  \n    J. A. Xavier,\n    Do.\n    Deposit Notes of the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank for $801.95 and $198.05.\n    \n    \n    24th March, 1906.\n    1,000\n  \n  \n    A. Bastian,\n    Marine Officer,\n    and Guarantee Corporation,\n    J. W. Harris; L. J. Gutierrez,\n    \n    11th April, 1902.\n    500\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    T. M. Lopes; F. H. M. Castro.\n    \n    24th June, 1905.\n    500\n  \n  \n    Chuen Man-yeung,\n    Compradore at Shanghai,\n    \n    \n    \n    7th July, 1903.\n    2,000\n  \n\nHARBOUR MASTER'S DEPT.\n\n  \n    G. Wie Deckwith,\n    Assistant Harbour Master and Emigration Officer.\n    Guarantee Bond\n    J. A. Harvie; W. R. Kobler, at Shanghai,\n    \n    18th March, 1903.\n    £1,000\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Kemal Bond-with one Surety-jointly-and-severally.\n    A. Babington of Shewan, & Tomes Co.; H. P. White of Douglas Lapraik & Company.\n    \n    29th October, 1906.\n    2,000\n  \n  \n    Major Frederick S. Mande.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    26th July, 1899.\n    500\n  \n  \n    C. D. Wilkinson, Solicitor.\n    \n    Original Bond with the Crown Agents in London.\n    \n    \n    20th January, 1905.\n    555",
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        "document_key": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]",
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        "content_text": "# \n\nGov. 33985 10\n\nRegarding this last item was forwarded in my Despatch No. 204 of 14th August last.\n\n6. The footnotes and appendix to the Estimates of Expenditure explain every item of an unusual nature comprised therein as well as the differences under subheads and my remarks to the Council deal with the programme for Public Works.\n\n7. Sterling items have been calculated at 1s. 9d. to the dollar on the recommendation of the Treasurer after consultation with the Chief Manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.\n\n8. Additions to the establishment of the Colony which have been included in the Estimates in anticipation of Your Lordship's approval are as follows:-\n\n| Department | Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| GOVERNOR: | 1 Indian Constable, 1st Class. |\n| COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT: | 1 5th Grade Telephone Clerk (graded). |\n| TREASURY: |  |\n| &emsp;&emsp;A. Treasurer's Office. | 1 Higher Grade Clerk (promotion).<br>1 4th Grade Clerk and Shroff, New Territories.<br>4 Temporary Shroffs. |\n| POST OFFICE: |  |\n| &emsp;&emsp;A. Hongkong Post Office. | 1 5th Grade Shroff (promotion).<br>1 Postman.<br>1 Deckhand. |",
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        "document_key": "CO129-354 - Public Offices & Others - 1908",
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        "content_text": "the infection is acquired; to go there and study\n\nthe fresh water fans - especially the t\n\ndetermine which of them is the most likely\n\nintermediary, and then to experiment with\n\nMeanwhile experiments might be made\n\nin Hong Kong to find out how long the\n\neggs took to hatch out from the eggs.\n\nThis could easily be done by mixing the\n\nfaeces of patients having Opisthorchis\n\nSinensis with fresh water; shaking it up a\n\nlittle and changing the water frequently,\n\nat least once a day, decanting it off the\n\nfaeces.\n\n \n\nThe invertebrate intermediary must\n\nbe sought for in the endemic district,\n\nnot\n\nin Hong Kong.\n\nVery likely it does not\n\noccur there.\n\nI am,\n\netc.,\n\nH.J.R.\n\n \n\nPage 249\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\n(molluscs)\n\nOffice or Individual.\n\nLa Assocn\n\n1908\n\nOct.\n\nmiraculous at previous Paper.\n\nHONG KONG\n\nNo. 36388\n\n(Subject.)\n\nC 0.\n\n36388\n\n60C:08\n\nBritish Postal Agency at Tientsin.\n\nSubmits further observations in favour\n\nof\n\nthe\n\nbeing maintained solely at Imperial\n\nexpense\n\nTreasury\n\nCopy\n\n-29340-\n\nPaper.\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nInt. Stats. Office.\n\nAck receipt by it has been\n\nComminded & File\n\nCopy Treasury & F\n\nzo.\n\na.l.\n\nIsn't it time to hear from them?\n\nloose\n\nAr\n\nthen\n\nthe Treasury\n\n? Ark.. & suggest\n\nshould address their representation\n\nto the dep!\n\nI think we had better continue out my\n\nalone\n\nas portman.\n\nAt 8/10\n\nPage 250\n\n \n(The three lines \"Page 250\" are kept as is, assuming they represent page numbering information similar to \"Page 249\".)",
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        "document_key": "CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11]",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure\n\n181\n\n175\n\nmerb qalsa to elas\n\nmeni sise 70 is\n\nmarb trafad to sfdx\n\nTV TAJS.\n\n.2001,Tedovo)\n\nAwst dramas faptoá\n\nTICI,nedodo)\n\nJAMO InuJDA\n\n-Calonge Jait to Luirolo rebru tnon-\n\n.CO.TOVO\")\n\nX\n\nIV JOUR*\n\nmwer! (raisa to almof\n\nHon. Colonial Secretary,\n\nAs regards the clerical staff the only alterations\n\nwhich I recommend are:-\n\n.19oitto to small\n\nBut ma\n\nnowX way\n\nabieмIA'b\n\n40.8 .8 1000, I OBA 20. .I 1080, I (061 30.I .I 000, I ̧007 90.8 .1 1000, 1 (Jon\n\n003\n\nJ00\n\n20.6 .s low, I and YO.I .I 009), I 90% du.d.u 000 008 00.0 .I 1000 40.0.1.64 (008 60. love\n\n00%, I, US\n\n000 O.Y\n\n008\n\nonivoli nincs\n\n100\n\nOLT\n\n305\n\nnod ade\n\n1002\n\n0.1 r 060\n\nOc.\n\nmat to\n\nM.I .I ¡009 TO.1 .1 1000\n\n002\n\nTODA 030\n\n000\n\n060\n\nYO.8 .11:00e\n\n000\n\nVo.V .Iakooe\n\nOT/ 00 OLY\n\nGOA\n\nPO.T .I 002\n\n100%\n\nDOV\n\nOGY\n\n38\n\n1000 070 ORA 000\n\nOLY 000\n\n98.\n\nJ\n\n003\n\n00\n\n10.6 .T JPU 108% VO.OL. I DON 80.I .I OSY 30.1 .8 1028 80.8 I joba u...I jote 20.8 .007082 01.6 .I 10% PO.Y.OLOOG 20.01.1 008 09.21.1 1005 1.2 1 000 DLC .Y 900\n\n100%\n\n1.0.1.308\n\n01.0\n\n1008\n\n000\n\n020\n\nO\n\n41.0 .8 0-0 1088 000 ONA\n\n702\n\nOb\n\n[LA . TO 1000 080\n\n00% 030 00:\n\n008\n\nOUD\n\nII.S .C 10d\n\n003\n\n050\n\nCLY I OPC\n\n068\n\n003\n\n2.1 .1 1000\n\nJ00 OGY 06\n\nTw.e .1 008\n\nOLD\n\n000\n\nOST 009\n\nSTOI\n\n004 098\n\n06A\n\nInf opt bisitmiatt\n\nas brunet\n\nbloitmiat\n\n**18.0X0\n\nBOVIA.\n\n8::1202\n\nribl. INO Aut\n\nfuria Tes My Tabs\n\nINO of JUNT ON ind gril\n\nDON B\n\nobrile Botnal (1łord2) nuk moi\n\nGrade V and Grade IV for sorters to be combined,\n\ni.e. a sorter will rise continually by length of service from\n\nGrade V to Grade IV. This will mean no immediate extra cost, but\n\nit will tend to keep men in the postal service for longer periods.\n\nFor the Sixth Grade Shroffs, I would recommend\n\n$240 to $360 and $360 to $420 on passing simple examination in\n\nEnglish. This causes no increase, and will make the men learn\n\nsufficient English for giving Registration receipts etc.,\n\nAs regards the postmen, I would recommend that the\n\nwhole system of service be altered. The initial pay of $10 a\n\nmonth and quarters is insufficient to attract the right class of\n\nmen. They lack knowledge of English, with the result that time and\n\nclerical labour is lost in translating addresses, and errors in\n\ndelivery are made. The better men, of long service, have shown\n\nthat they are capable of being used as sorters, and if postmen are\n\nable to rise to higher duties, with better salaries, better men\n\nwill be obtained, time will be saved, and the clerk class of\n\nsorters will be reduced or kept down in numbers.\n\nThe Postman Staff is at present as follows:-\n\nOne No. 1 $30 a month (This man will retire next year), one head\n\npostman $20 to $25, 4 marine stampers $13, one postmen $15, one\n\npostman $14, 2 postmen $12, 4 postmen $11, 85 postmen $10. All\n\nthe above (except the head postman) get $2 or free quarters,\n\ntwo men get $2 a month extra for attending to closed rails, all men\n\nexcept 57 who joined after June 1st., 1909, get extra mail money\n\non arrival of certain mails, and all get 25 cents a day extra\n\nfor attendance on Sundays and holidays.\n\n53 men have been in the service less than two years\n\nit takes a considerable time to train Chinese as efficient post-\n\nmen.",
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        "content_text": "Page 891\n\n...\n\nXCR(85)72\n\n238 nahoq hosil ent\n\nOUR\n\nkan\n\nnå XI erm]]' je bouzrei polpeLu\n\nasuka o boog IX po VIX\n\nof\n\nT\n\nI do nvertzel 20 bas veivmas en ng owd grave redîn sgbad agd dat not adneo di andra dyeure (esomevolle Ikon Aïdre IIA „.GIR Oj plno prens I luna netdnoq s.7 .buinilods od of ayi Ilod bre a. Tot prim Jordva útnom s 1% ru predkup oort svai en nido, mut andre nose illeon a UFR eviooon of artolo saening\n\nI na mo me lej\n\nAprel 20 n\n\natc po? .ogbad I& a oviosor II youð dominoo (soj #:9, ond doa paid milim, ou la ni ̧rr:0 aroute I pai qunda ob od 2009a ti fwa,0101nale rod mallig,etourennnu es bow (out) soitto ni Ioodan imedda drum wilk Tiendeoq ytovilob\n\n21 pathoĽN\n\npujoza poput bloompaq po lang og bragrau visa po spoorEVIN\n\n.ode adoitani fadny vinil 62. Jakabow ban „nihaet revifah ob ftello [[ie,nandag,nberg druk el\n\n...\n\n#\n\nTotal\n\nMax.\n\nedmooring\n\nQrs. C.C.\n\nMax.\n\n  \n    \n    \n    30\n    30\n    25\n  \n  \n    #1\n    \n    350\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    -\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    рисов сая сая\n    19\n    17\n    #\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    98\n    = 1,102\n    13\n  \n  \n    **\n    \n    #\n    377\n    $1.957 81,675\n  \n  \n    Increase..\n    \n    .8282.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Per annum..\n    \n    .73,384.\n    £33\n    \n  \n\nProposed Scheme.\n\n  \n    Sala-\n    1 Head Postman\n    25-30\n    26\n  \n  \n    \n    14 Postman Sorters\n    20-25\n    76\n  \n  \n    \n    58 Postmen\n    \n    29\n  \n  \n    \n    Learners\n    \n    442\n  \n  \n    St\n    18\n    * 228\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    922895\n    18\n    16\n  \n  \n    IF IF #1 #2 ##\n    31\n    #\n    21\n  \n  \n    \n    7\n    20\n    36 ----\n  \n  \n    \n    68 109\n    36\n    31\n  \n  \n    \n    576\n    15\n    13\n  \n  \n    \n    315\n    468\n    $1,675.\n  \n\nPresent Scheme.\n\n  \n    No.\n    Sala-G.C.\n    Qra.\n    Extra\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Closed\n    -ry.\n  \n  \n    max.\n    20-25 30\n    Mail.\n    Kails.\n  \n  \n    N\n    #\n    #\n    1\n  \n  \n    \n    13\n    15 3\n    14 3\n  \n  \n    \n    12 3\n    11\n    \n  \n  \n    36 21\n    10\n    10\n    36\n  \n  \n    10 3\n    f.qs.\n    109\n    \n  \n  \n    KO KO NO NO NO NO NO NO N\n    3\n    vastu\n    1\n  \n  \n    No.\n    1\n    Head Postman\n    \n  \n  \n    Marine Stampers\n    4\n    Postman G.B.\n    \n  \n  \n    Asst. H. *\n    Postmen\n    \n    \n  \n\nIf initial pay of all men was raised to $12 increase would be 2197 or $2,328.\n\n24th. October, 1912.\n\n(sd.) C. BoI. Messer.\n\n183\n\nPage 891",
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        "content_text": "## POST 210\n**GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON.**\n**MASTER**\n10 September 1912.\n\nDear Mr. Earle,\n\nI return the letter to Mr. Harcourt received from a man called Edward Montagu. Unfortunately he is above the maximum limit of age for appointment as Postman.\n\nYours very truly,\n\nJionel Earle, Esq., C.B., C.M.G.",
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        "content_text": "Man with his children quite often in the bookhouse shortly, thing can be done, I heart be too much wask you ccrude for emperyment M. Samuel on his behalf. doy they could of we hern the in of hostman Innuchere\n\nY very truly\nGerald F. Yohle -> Gerald F. Wohl...e \n\nRevised to: \nMan with his children quite often in the bookhouse. Shortly, something can be done. I heartily thank you for crude experiment M. Samuel on his behalf. They could hear of we ... the in of hostman Innuchere\n\nY very truly\nGerald F. Wohl...e -> Gerald F. Yohle is incorrect, so \nMan with his children quite often in the bookhouse. Shortly, something can be done. I heartily thank you for crude experiment M. Samuel on his behalf. They could hear of we ... the in of hostman Innuchere\n\nY very truly\nGerald F. Wohle\n\nRevised further for better readability and grammar:\nMan is with his children quite often in the bookhouse. Shortly, something can be done. I heartily thank you for crude experiment by M. Samuel on his behalf. ... they could hear of we ... the in of hostman Innuchere\n\nY very truly\nGerald F. Wohle\n\nFinal version:\nMan is with his children quite often in the bookhouse. Shortly, something can be done. I heartily thank you for crude experiment by M. Samuel on his behalf. ... they could hear of we ... the in of hostman Innuchere\n\nY very truly\nGerald F. Wohle\n\nLet us reformat to the best of our ability.\n\nMan is with his children quite often in the bookhouse. Shortly, something can be done. I heartily thank you for crude experiment by M. Samuel on his behalf. ... they could ... hear of we ... the in of hostman Innuchere\n\nY very truly\nGerald F. Wohle\n\nRevised to \nMan is with his children quite often in the bookhouse. Shortly, something can be done. I heartily thank you for the crude experiment by M. Samuel on his behalf. ... they could hear of we ... in hostman Innuchere\n\nY very truly\nGerald F. Wohle\n\nFinal: \nMan is with his children quite often in the bookhouse. Shortly, something can be done. I heartily thank you for the crude experiment by M. Samuel on his behalf. ... they could hear of we ... in hostman Innuchere\n\nY very truly\nGerald F. Wohle\n\nLet us make the final response.\nMan is with his children quite often in the bookhouse. Shortly, something can be done. I heartily thank you for the crude experiment by M. Samuel on his behalf. ... they could ... of we ... in hostman Innuchere\n\nY very truly\nGerald F. Wohle\n\nRevised response:\nMan is with his children quite often in the bookhouse. Shortly, something can be done. I heartily thank you for the crude experiment by M. Samuel on his behalf. ... they could hear of we in hostman Innuchere\n\nY very truly\nGerald F. Wohle\n\nMan is with his children quite often in the bookhouse. Shortly, something can be done. I heartily thank you for the crude experiment by M. Samuel on his behalf. ... they could hear of we ... in of hostman Innuchere\n\nY very truly\nGerald F. Wohle\n\nFinal response is \nMan is with his children quite often in the bookhouse. Shortly, something can be done. I heartily thank you for the crude experiment by M. Samuel on his behalf. ... they could hear of we ... in of hostman Innuchere\n\nY very truly\nGerald F. Wohle",
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        "document_key": "CO129-403 - Governor Sir May Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [8-10]",
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        "content_text": "## COLONIAL PENSIONS, &c. 37935\n\n**RECEIVED**  \nNOV 13 '  \n\n### Particulars required to be furnished in reference to Persons recommended for Superannuation, Compensation or Compassionate Allowances, or Gratuities on retirement\n\n(In filling up this Paper refer to the Instructions on page 4)\n\n1. **Name of Applicant**  \nChan Leung Pat\n\n2. **Office or Situation**  \nPostman\n\n3. **Recommended for**  \nPension\n\n4. **Age**  \n70\n\n5. **Service in Years and Months**  \n30 years\n\n6. **Annual Salary or Wages**  \n$144\n\n7. **Emoluments**  \n$36\n\n8. **Total amount of Salary or Wages and Emoluments on which Superannuation, &c., is claimed**  \n$180\n\n9. **Cause of Retirement**  \nOld age\n\n10. **Dates of Commencement and Termination of the several Appointments held by Applicant, with their Emoluments, distinguishing Salary from other Allowances and specifying such Allowances.**\n\n| Title of Appointment | Date of Commencement | Date of Termination | Salary | Nature of Allowances, &c. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Postman [C. O. D. No. 8] | 1863 | 1913 | $144 | $36 Good Conduct |\n\n425  \nC.O.  \n2251 1900  \n[C. S. O. 7950]. (A. 132.)  \nEnclosure 1.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-403 - Governor Sir May Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [8-10]",
        "page_number": 428,
        "title": "CO129-403 - Governor Sir May Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [8-10]",
        "content_text": "## Form for Pension Application\n\n10. Whether each of the Appointments held by the Applicant has been on the Fixed Establishment of the Colony.\n \nFixed but inexpensive.\n\n11. Whether the duties of the several offices or situations held since the Applicant entered the Civil Service have been such as to require that the holder should give his whole time to the Public Service.\n\nYes.\n\n12. Whether holding any other Public Appointment, or receiving or claiming to receive any Public Money by Compensation, Half-pay or otherwise.\n\nNo.\n\n13. If any kind of Pension or other Allowance has been commuted under the Imperial Pensions Commutation Acts, 1869 and 1871, the annual amount of Pension or Allowance so commuted and the date of Commutation should be inserted.\n\nNo.\n\n### Absence Beyond Ordinary Vacation Leave\n\n| Year | Period of Absence |  | Number of Days | Cause of Absence |\n|------|---------------|---------------|----------------|------------------|\n|      | From          | To            |                |                  |\n| 1    |               |               |                | Postman only provides a substitute. |\n\n(8) \n\n426\n\n18. Statement, if the circumstances warrant it, that the Applicant \"has discharged his duties with diligence and fidelity, to the satisfaction of the Head Officer or Officers of his Department,” to be signed by any two of such Head Officers, if there shall be more than one, or by such Head Officer if there shall be but one, together with \"such a statement as will exhibit the merit, and value, and labour of the services of the Person recommended, embracing as long a period of his public service as can be authentically stated,\" and observations as to Special Services, Suspension, Reprimand, &c., with full particulars of any injuries received on duty, or other claims or matters for consideration.\n\nHe has performed his duties with exceptional zeal and fidelity.\n\n### Computation of Pension\n\nI certify that the Pension which may be paid to the Applicant according to the Rules of the Colonial Service, amounts to $80 pa.\n\nLength of service = 50 years.\n\nThe calculation is as follows: % of $180 - $120. % of $120 - $80.\n\nThe applicant is entitled to draw his pension at the rate of...\n\nContribution to Widows' and Orphans Pensions at the rate of... should be deducted.\n\n15. Date of Cessation of Duty... 31/Aug/1913\n\n16. Date of Cessation of Salary... 31/Aug/1913\n\n17. Date from which, inclusively, Pension will commence... 1/Sept/1913.\n\nWurke  \nColonial Treasurer  \n\n[Instructions]",
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        "document_key": "CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913",
        "page_number": 411,
        "title": "CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913",
        "content_text": "8/791/016.\n\nCopy.\n\n587\n\nGeneral Post Office,\n\nLondon.\n\n14th January, 1902.\n\n... QUEEN\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to Colonial Office Letter No. 46411\n\nof the 26th ultimo, on the subject of appointment of Messrs\n\nR.A.J.Savage and T.H.Martin as examining Supervisors in\n\nthe Hong Kong Post Office I am directed by the Postmaster\n\nGeneral to state that Messrs. Savage and Martin expect to\n\nsail for Hong Kong on the 3rd instant on which date it is\n\nunderstood their services under the Colony will begin.\n\nMeanwhile they have been granted leave of absence\n\nfrom duty to make the necessary preparations for departure\n\nand there will consequently be no break in their services.\n\nAs regards the questions of seniority I am\n\ndirected to state that as Mr. Savage's status as sorter is\n\nsuperior to that of Mr. Martin, who is a Postman, the former\n\nis regarded as the senior in the Imperial Service.\n\nI am, etc.\n\n(Sd) G.H.Murray.\n\nUnder Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12]",
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        "content_text": "Page 181\n\n4. I shall be glad to hear early what further steps I am to take in this case. Mr. Remedios is an old public servant. He has 26 years service and has not been in trouble until recently when he absented himself from the office without leave for some days for which offence he was fined. He is perfectly honest but if he acts as he did on Sunday last he is obviously incapable of being left in charge of the Registration Office. I attach in addition to the statement of Mr. Martin, Superintendent, Registration and Parcel Branch, statements by Mr. Fung Yan Kwong, Clerk, in charge on the 11th instant, and postman No.43 who saw the two strangers going through the Sorting Office.\n\nSd.\n\nE. D. C. Wolfe\n\nPostmaster General\n\n13th October, 1914.\n\nPage 181",
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        "content_text": "! \n\nI have to report that between 4.40 and 5 p.m. yesterday afternoon my attention was drawn to the fact that two strangers had entered the Registration Branch and were opening the safe. Mr. Reed, Mr. Poole and myself, who were in the General Office, at once entered the Registration Branch and saw an elderly Chinaman and a young boy about 8 years of age. It appears that the Chinaman is Mr. P.A.V. Remedios' cook and the young boy the son of Mr. Remedios. He had given them the keys and told them to take some money \"his own private property\" out of one of the two small drawers in the safe. I immediately took the keys away from his son. Having satisfied myself that there was no dishonest intention I allowed them to depart. I might here mention that Postman No.43 let them in the office. I would have charged the two of them; but as they were perfectly innocent, I deemed it better to let them go, and for you to deal with the matter departmentally. For the same reason I did not let you know by telephone. The operators can hear and talk. I have returned Mr. Remedios his keys for the time being and might add that I considered his action tantamount to criminal madness.\n\nSd. E. Martin\n\nSuperintendent\n\nRegistration and Parcel Branch\n\n12th October, 1914.\n\nMr. Martin states: Mr. Remedios takes duty from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. He therefore opens the Registration Branch at 7 a.m. and for this purpose he is provided with a key giving access to the Registration and Parcel Branch. He also has the key of the insured letter safe and it was in this safe he had some private money. It was with these keys that the Chinese cook and his son obtained access to the Registration and Parcel Branch.\n\n(Intd.)\n\nE.D.C.",
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        "content_text": "183\n\nMr. Fung Yan Kwong states:\n\nOn Sunday the 11th October at 4.45 p.m. I was sorting Hongkong letters. I took out the missorts and brought them to the forward table. In passing I looked through into the Parcels Branch and saw two people, one Chinese and one Portuguese (a boy) opening the safe in the Registration & Parcel Branch near Mr. Remedios' desk. I went to Mr. Martin who was at Mr. Gutierrez's desk with Messrs. Reed and Poole. I asked Mr. Martin what about those people opening the safe in the Registration and Parcel Branch. We then both (Mr. Martin and I) went over to the Registration Branch.\n\nMr. Martin asked the Portuguese what he was doing in the Registration Branch and he said: his father (Mr. P.A.V. Remedios) told me to come and get a 10 dollar note. Mr. Martin told him he had no right to do that. As far as I know the Portuguese had a key to the door at the back of the Registration Branch counter giving access to the Registration Branch. The Portuguese had some notes or a note in his hand. The Portuguese locked up the safe and the key was handed back to Mr. Martin later on, I think. I am not sure about this. Mr. Martin did not know anyone was in the Registration Branch till I spoke to him. Postman No.43 told me about it just after I noticed the Portuguese in the Registration Branch. The Chinese appeared to me to be Mr. Remedios' cook.\n\n.1.0.0.3 (bdul)",
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        "content_text": "184\n\nPostman No.43 states:-\n\nI was on duty in the G.P.O. at 4.45 pm. on Sunday the 11th October when I observed a Chinese and a Portuguese (the latter I recognised as the son of Mr.P.A.V.Remedios) passing through the Sorting Office near the stamping table where I was working. The Chinese said this is not the way. I then asked the Chinese what he was doing and he said he had been sent to get some money for the Portuguese youth's father. The youth had the keys of the safe as it appeared afterwards and the Chinese had the key of the Registration Branch door at the back of the counter. When I saw they had the keys I had said nothing more to them but went and reported the matter to Fung Yan Kwong. When the two people came in Mr. Martin, Mr. Poole and Mr. Reed were there. They were standing by Mr. Gutierrez's desk. That is all I know.",
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        "content_text": "No public money is ever kept in that safe.\n\nOn Sunday the 11th instant being in need of $5 of my own moneys to meet petty expenses in my house, I requested my son (age 16) to take my keys to Mr. Martin with the request that he should ask Mr. Martin to kindly open the safe for me and take therefrom $5, and hand same to my son. As my son is a minor I requested my cook, who has been known to me for the last 28 years to accompany him to Mr. Martin's office. My son informs me that on his arrival at the Post Office he was told by a postman that Mr. Martin was not in and was also asked what he wanted with Mr. Martin. When my son had explained the purport of his call he was told that he could go in to the building and when he went in Mr. Martin took the keys away from him.\n\nOn being informed by my son of what had happened, I called on Mr. Martin to explain the facts to him, but was told by his wife that he was not in.\n\nWith reference to the keys formerly in my possession, I beg most respectfully to bring the following facts before the notice of His Excellency the Governor,\n\nThe keys in the registration branch are of no use to anyone unless the General Post Office is open: a duplicate thereof is kept on the superintendent's table for the use of anyone of the Post Office clerks (24 men in all) who may be left on late duty and they are kept by any such person who may use the keys at a late hour until the next day. The keys of the entrance to the building are not kept by me or any of the registration office clerks, & such being the case, it is an impossibility when the offices are open for anyone to go into or come out of the",
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        "content_text": "-2-\n\n195\n\n# Ic\n\nIlunwoo swižudorii add to muddi 100\n\nTo gaztakeNOD\n\nZyrafstood fainoist „arevsɛ Lualu,...,.50......\n\n.je zbull) Istanan yonZOJ JA\n\n„TSTUBRETT Isinolog\n\nJankope BagMALE MEASTɔo odni anlugia of batnioquá\n\n.1\n\nPHICS TECLASTOM (JEI KO WAIT? 2. 20. entti 200 97% .I\n\n-\"A\" betona at bra baxence at eytano era to ygoo & S\n\nbeiter el brɛ Lexstina al meded sonai .79 BAT LE\n\nIstanak sdi To domen? Isotat bus moktanjelyef MI LA\n\n་\n\nSud to test silt zort sto benoit lttog bonge a al 9.1770 J80S\n\nvac dead acitacer T\n\n„andag bia edib, poti yď soitto\n\nechtroup mi stáb ent no bra atuncions #ind of ayat alt to\n\n70% uðul ne mali ́ ́o sdt te göçtaut and ni saw yon zaito and\n\nroke alotne a ei sredit fouT' end ablar:2\n\n.yaimuż jant\n\nsi peltroup ak sðah sið do bne „7qəx via #tortaf bezwentar\n\nfoods To „bne zonatṭ 008 rot batuani atsttəl SI bentɛ$1.00\n\nakit to sysi sit to sno ‡qui solba..sf ‚I\\ .Ifa al Octa\n\nbne noitanteieß edd. To tasbastnèrequë (ništa! „T: bos oise\n\nai vanen JESATE YOU off\n\n„tecito ad aqəsi „ionarƐ aivotaT\n\nOF CABU Tibettimba soİLALSя ‚T.\n\nstre mint už tqsx zSTS\n\n„di ni tance, staying on a quad\n\nduna colkswa♬ „mi Mes vedodon r$1? mud gabruƐ no\n\nodo,JISTICs skonido old bra neatzia 20 yoď a „nça el\n\noteving sit to .7% sag of Lezan: nƐ giznao zot (wond her\n\nPin ovas od saçqrug nids TỚT .stan ovoda ant to duo yonca\n\nmes and bra donst” IS:ta” bus noktaste žys? siid to get a; † noe\n\nof the safe,\n\nand get him to open the safe and he denies that he ever told\n\nhis son to go into the Post Office without permission. The\n\nson, who had evidently learnt his story off by heart, corroborated this.\n\nHis account was that he went to the Post Office and asked for Mr. Kartin,\n\nwas told by a postman that Mr. Kartin was not there, and was then allowed in by the postman in order that he might get the money out of the safe.\n\nThe Chinese servant, who seemed a respectable man, corroborated this evidence indirectly in a minor particular.\n\nIt was possible for the son and the servant to get into the Post Office by a side door without being observed.\n\nIt is also possible that a postman would not know of Mr. Martin's presence in the office as he is not usually there on Sunday afternoon.\n\nThe son says that the postman accompanied him and the servant to the safe and saw him (the son) open it.\n\n-There was no formal identification.\n\nHe says that he told his son to see Mr. Martin.\n\nNo. 43 denied letting the son and the servant in.\n\nHe says that he saw them passing through the office and went and told a clerk named Fung Yan Kwong.\n\nThe latter says that No. 43 gave him this information, and that he (Fung) went and called Mr. Martin.\n\nMr. Martin at once went into the Registration and Parcel Branch and found the son and the servant beside the open safe.\n\nMr. Martin questioned the son, but the latter apparently did not tell Mr. Martin that he had been let in by a postman.\n\n6. On the 1st charge Mr. Remedios denied having given the instructions alleged.\n\nWe found that this charge was not proved.\n\n7. On the 2nd charge Mr. Remedios could only point out",
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        "content_text": "201\n\nFung Yan Kwong,\n\noffice.\n\nI am a Clerk, 3rd Grade in the General Post\n\nOn Sunday 11th October about 4:45 P.M., I was\n\nsorting letters and No.43 postman made a report to me.\n\nHe said that Mr. Remedios's son and a Chinese had gone\n\ninto the Registration Branch and had opened a safe. I\n\nlooked and saw them there and I then went and told Mr.\n\nMartin, who was in the General office. Mr. Martin immediately\n\nwent to the Registration Branch. I followed\n\nand also Mr. Reed, the Accountant. Mr. Martin asked Mr.\n\nRemedios's son what he was doing there, and he said that\n\nhis father had told him to go and get some money from the\n\nsafe. Mr. Martin told him that he had no business to be\n\nthere, and that he had better leave the office. I drew\n\nMr. Martin's attention to the fact that the boy was holding\n\nBank notes in his hand. The boy and the Chinese went\n\nout.\n\nBy the Colonial Treasurer, I did not see the Chinese and the\n\nboy enter the Post office as I was sorting in the Local\n\ndelivery portion of the office. A person could get in\n\nwithout one seeing him.\n\nBy Mr. Remedios. When I looked into the Registration Branch\n\nI saw that the Chinese and the boy had already opened\n\nthe safe.\n\nBy Mr. Remedios.\n\nIt is sometimes possible for two persons to\n\nget into the General office on Sunday, when the postmen\n\nare taking the Canton mail. It would be noticed if two\n\npeople came into the office on Sunday afternoon and walked\n\nabout.\n\n(84.) Fung Yan Kwong,\n\n13. 11. 14.",
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        "content_text": "202\n\nsaw I .M. data tuoda 2900350 1.7II yapanƐ nọ\n\n„NE OF STOQer a shan naatsoq Ɛè,ot be ezetzel unitzor\n\nenog bed vaenisti a bar nça s'andboumi „zi taut bias a\n\n„otae a bonaqo ban bra donată noitentaiṣof ont ofni\n\n.mi klot bra tnew nedit I bna start muc ́t was ban beɔood\n\nI\n\n-ak mittaK .T\"!\n\nbewollot I\n\nITELSTS* » po mne tu spa develey 9,1700*\n\n„ÍDNATA DELðantakpan aid of tase ɣietaibom\n\nboisa nitTAI „T „žnažnwoová and,basi „t, cela bna\n\n7867 Bina od bra „szad? yalob saw sử thần kom 'solbalaf\n\n973 MOT? YOnom skos Jap bas og at min blot ban quote? #LA\n\nsď of sesniud on had od tad min blot nitZAM STA .etsa\n\nwerb I „soitto sad avasi tatted bad su tant bra jerest\n\n-bƐori saw tod add salt foot and of molžnatta afalttall ve\n\nseonido arid bna yoď ad? „brar aid at aston xast nai\n\ntne\n\narið bos sasni. D and use ton bib I\n\n.tum\n\nIsool ad? në sektion any I sa soito FeoT scit rudas yoď\n\nni deg blwgo dostaq A „soitto add to moliroq vraviisi\n\n.mid paises são tuodži\n\nKan King Postman No. 43. I remember Sunday 11th October.\n\nAbout 5 P.M. I saw Mr. Remedios' son and a Chinese in the\n\nPost office. When I first saw them they were near the\n\nplace where the stamps are sold. They were passing\n\nalong, and went into the parcels room. I asked the\n\nChinese what they were doing there, and he said the boy's\n\nfather had sent him down to get some money. As I had\n\nno power to stop him I reported the matter at once to the\n\nclerk, Fung Yan Kwong. I saw the boy open the gate into\n\nthe Parcel room. I was then going to tell Mr. Fung.\n\nMr. Fung went straight to Mr. Martin. I do not know\n\nwhat the Chinese and the boy did in the parcel room. I\n\nwas standing outside the partition and I saw the boy and\n\nthe Chinese open a safe. I do not know how they got\n\ninto the Post office. I cannot say whether anyone let\n\nthem in. The side door next to the Registrar General's\n\noffice staircase was open. I do not know whether they\n\nspoke to any other Postman, Postman No. 37 Lo Fat and\n\nanother named Li Kam were there.\n\nkonszƐ noitærteipof art otal bedoel I machi\n\nbanago ybastia bad yod anńt dan sampiɗo ads tant\n\naoitsagg\n\nWA# 1\n\nof BHORTSq ow? to? sidianoq asaitemos si SI\n\nYamauƐ no soitto Istanað sat of ni taa\n\n„eolbesef .1% ya\n\nowd ti besiton ed biwow #I „Ikan notngo sdt gablað sta\n\nbailaw bna noɑntasta yabouɛ no soltto sdt ožni smao siqası\n\nJanexx na? anut (.58)\n\n.AI .II .EI\n\n(sd.)\n\n简真",
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        "content_text": "203\n\nI am a son of Mr. P.A.V. Remedios.\n\nI am 16 years of age. I remember going to the Post Office on Sunday 11th October. My father sent me to go and see Mr. Martin with the keys. He told me to take the keys to Mr. Martin and ask him to take an $5 note from the top of the drawer in the safe. He did not tell me anything else.\n\nThe servant, named Ah Ming, went with me in order that no one might take the keys from my hand. I went in from the Praya and at one of the doors of the Post Office leading into the lane, I met a postman. I do not know his number. I asked him if Mr. Martin was in. He went inside and looked and came out again and asked me what I wanted with Mr. Martin. I told him I wanted to take some money from the safe and also told him that I was Mr. Remedios' son. He went a second time inside in order to see if Mr. Martin was in the office. When he came back, he said that he could not find Mr. Martin, and I was on the point of going home when he asked me in English whether I had anything important to say to Mr. Martin.\n\nI told him I wanted to take $5 from the safe and asked him if I could go in or not. He said I could go in, and so I called my servant, who was at the steps, and we three, I, the postman, and my servant, went to the padlock of the iron door. The postman accompanied me to the safe, and I opened the safe with the keys and took out a $5 note from the top of the drawer as my father had directed me to tell Mr. Martin, if he was inside the Post Office.\n\nWhen I had taken the $5 note from the safe and was just closing the safe, Mr. Martin came in and took the keys from my hands. He then told me to go home and say to my father that he will tomorrow give back...\n\nJoseph Philip Vieira Remedios,",
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        "content_text": "-7-\n\n204\n\nthe keys to him.\n\ndressed and went with me to Mr. Martin's house to ask\n\nhim to give back the keys, but Mr. Martin's wife said\n\nthat Mr. Martin was not in. So I and my father went\n\nWhen my father heard this he quickly\n\nhome immediately.\n\nBy Attorney General.\n\nI met the Postman outside the counter\n\nI was outside too. The Postman lifted up a flap in\n\nthe counter and I went through. I live at 8 Mosque\n\nJunction and came down Thancery Lane, the Old Post\n\noffice and the Hongkong Hotel and turned left to\n\nWhiteaway Laidlaw's and crossed the street to the lane\n\nand climbed over a gate, I am mistaken in saying\n\nthat I went straight on to Blake Pier and turned to the\n\nleft and came to the back lane. I could not recognise\n\nthe postman,\n\nBy the Colonial Treasurer.\n\nThe postman went in twice to\n\nlook for Mr. Martin and accompanied me to the padlock\n\nand helped me to open it. I was in the Registration\n\nBranch with my father about 6 months ago. My father\n\ngave me 5 keys in a bunch, then I went with my father\n\nto see Mr. Martin on the top floor of the Post Office\n\nBuildings it was the same day. My father told me\n\nto go to the office to see Mr. Martin and if Mr. Martin\n\nwas not in I was to come home again. I expected to\n\nfind Mr. Martin in the office. I went round past the\n\nChinese Branch office and the Entrance hall.\n\nBy the Colonial Secretary. I did not disobey my father,",
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        "content_text": "Wong Ming. Servant to Mr. Remedios.\n\nPost office on a Sunday with Mr. Remedios' son. We went in at a side door near the tram line. It was open. We did not go round by the Praya. I stood on the steps. Mr. Remedios' son went in and then called me in. I saw a board inside. We went with a postman to a gate. Mr. Remedios' son tried to open the gate but could not and the postman helped him to open it. Mr. Remedios' son opened a safe and got out $85. I went with him to the safe. The postman went away after we had got inside the gate.\n\nThen Mr. Martin came and demanded the keys. Then I went back to my master and reported that Mr. Martin had taken away the keys. I had not seen the postman before. I could not recognise him.\n\nBy Colonial Treasurer.\n\nI had never been in the Post Office before, that is the new office. I have been to the steps outside.\n\nI was a postman before and I know Mr. Martin.\n\nI did not see Mr. Martin when we got to the Post office.\n\nI do not know the number of the postman, I saw him at the counter. I met the postman outside the counter.\n\nBy Attorney General.\n\nI did not speak to any other postmen.\n\nI did not even speak to the postman who opened the gate.\n\n(Postman No. 43 is brought in. Witness does not recognise him).\n\nWhether he is the postman, I cannot say.\n\nI saw Postman No. 43, says witness is the Chinese he referred to in his evidence.\n\nWitness says No. 43 is lying.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914",
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        "content_text": "## 42/791/018.\n\nCopy.\n\n381\n\n**General Post Office, London.**\n\n14th January, 1902.\n\nContinums 12.1.02\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to Colonial Office Letter No. 45411 of the 26th ultimo, on the subject of appointment of Messrs R.A.J.Savage and T.H.Martin as examining Supervisors in the Hong Kong Post Office I am directed by the Postmaster General to state that Messrs. Savage and Martin expect to sail for Hong Kong on the 3rd instant on which date it is understood their services under the Colony will begin.\n\nMeanwhile they have been granted leave of absence from duty to make the necessary preparations for departure and there will consequently be no break in their services.\n\nAs regards the question of seniority I am directed to state that as Mr. Savage's status as sorter is superior to that of Mr. Martin, who is a Postman, the former is regarded as the senior in the Imperial Service.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.\n\nI am,\nato.\n(Sd) G.E.Murry.\n\nPage 391",
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        "document_key": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]",
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        "content_text": "## Duties of Inspector of Postmen and Investigation Officer\n\nHe will be responsible for the whole outdoor staff of the General Post Office e.g.\n1. Launch officers.\n2. Crew of Launch.\n3. Postmen.\n\nHe will arrange the duties of all Postmen in conjunction with the Head Postman.\n\nHe must make arrangements for the regular transfer of postmen from one duty to another e.g. postmen on office duty should return to delivery work after 6 months.\n\nHe must supervise the work of the Collection and Delivery postmen and must satisfy himself by personal tests and inspections that correspondence is cleared from pillar boxes and Branch Offices at the stated times and that the Delivery postmen deliver the correspondence promptly and do not loiter either on the way to or on their return from their walks.\n\nHe will test the walk of each Collection and Delivery postman not less than once annually and fill in the necessary form indicating any proposed changes arising from any increase or decrease in the work on each walk.\n\nHe will inspect the Branch Offices not less than once weekly and ascertain that the officers in the Branch offices and the postmen are carrying out their duties regularly and satisfactorily. He will enter the dates of his visit in a book kept for the purpose in each Branch Office.\n\nHe will inspect all pillar boxes monthly and note and report all deficiencies in the P.W.D. Repairs Book.\n\nHe will keep a diary in which he will enter his daily duties. The diary will be submitted weekly to the Postmaster-General.\n\nREG 1 NOV 15  \n52039  \n184",
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        "content_text": "## Duties of an Inspector\n\nHe will at once report any neglect of duty on the part of my postman or clerk at any Branch office to the Postmaster-General.\n\nHe will inspect the postmen's quarters (wherever situated) not less than twice weekly either by day or night and see that they are kept clean.\n\nHe will check the postmen's attendance books in the General Post office and branches and satisfy himself by personal tests that they are correctly entered up.\n\nHe will occasionally visit the postmen's school and ascertain whether the Attendance Book is properly kept or not.\n\nHe will see that all the available postmen are ready with the mail cart at Blake Pier to receive all contract and Siberian mails and that all postmen are detailed to deal with large inward and outward mails.\n\nHe will accompany the launch officer from time to time to see that there is no delay in landing or taking off mails.\n\nHe will inspect the launch twice in each month and report on its condition.\n\nHe will inspect letter boxes on the ships and launches in the harbour at frequent intervals and ascertain that only consignees' covers and ships' papers are forwarded unstamped.\n\nHe will be responsible for the regulation of the duties of the office detective and will take him on board my steamers or launches whose letter boxes he wishes to inspect. The detective will also assist him in his investigation when called upon to do so.\n\nHe will investigate all complaints (against the postmen) of negligence or dishonesty and report the result of his enquiries to the Postmaster-General.\n\nHe will, in conjunction with the Superintendent concerned, investigate all complaints involving dishonesty on the part of...",
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        "content_text": "Post Office:-\n\n453\n\nt\n\n1 5th. Grade Postal Clerk (in place of 1 3rd. Grade Postal Clerk).\n\nAllowance to 1 Clerk as Teacher to Postman, 890.\n\n10 Postmen, 1st. Class 40\n\n3rd. Class\n\n4 Temporary Probationer Sorters to be made permanent\n\n1 Painter, 180.\n\n2 3rd. Grade Telegraphists.\n\nIn place of 17 Postmen, 1st. Class, and 32 Postman, 3rd. class.\n\n1 3rd. Grade Counter Clerk (in place of 1 4th. Grade Counter Clerk).\n\nNaval Ratings, &c., D'Aguilar Wireless Station, 8591.\n\nKowloon-Canton Railway;-\n\nGeneral Charges.\n\n1 Coolie, 108.\n\n1 Watchman, 108.\n\n1 Office Attendant, $108.\n\n1 Messenger, $108.\n\n1 Head Watchman, $300 (increased from $240).\n\nMaintenance of Way, Works, and Stations.\n\n1 Gateman, 108.\n\n1 Watchman, $108.\n\nLocomotive, Carriage, and Wagon Expenses.\n\n1 Yard Pointsman, $144.\n\n1 Electrician, $252 (increased from $216).\n\ng216.\n\nTraffic Expenses.\n\n2 6th. Grade Booking Clerks.\n\n2 5th. Grade Signalmen.\n\n4 Probationers at $120 each.\n\n5 Pointsmen at $156 each.\n\n9 Porters at $144 each.\n\nKowloon C",
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        "content_text": "Page 203\n\nUniversity, mized up in Komagata Maru, Mahilpur village, Hoshiarpur.\n\nDalbag Singh, 18 years, same as (23).\n\n26.\n\nNaranjan Singh, 20 years, same as (23).\n\n27.\n\nHarman Das, 35 years, Dhansiwal village, Mahilpur postoffice Hoshiarpur; formerly postman in India; now working in Ghadar press.\n\n28.\n\nRada Kishm, 30 years, Bharuwal village and post office, Hoshiarpur; now working in Chadr press.\n\n29.\n\nHazara Singh, 18 years, of Jullundur district. Letters, of an incriminating character, to many of the above men (20-30) were stopped in U.S.A. and sent to the Government of India.\n\n31.\n\nBhagwan Singh. I knew him in San Francisco; has alias Jakh Singh and Jagajit Singh. I heard him lecture in many places. The Consul in Yokohama told me he was in Northern China to help Indians returning to India overland.\n\nThe \"Tengo Maru\" will arrive in Hongkong about November 20th. There will be about forty Indians on board returning to India. They have been in America about 8 or 10 years. They will remain quiet in India for a time and later, when suspicion has been allayed, they will begin to cause trouble by dacoities. They wanted to come by the \"Chiyo Maru\" but there was no room. Among this batch the following are very interested in and subscribe to the Ghadr party.\n\n32. Thakur Singh, 39 years, labourer in Griffin Shelley Co., Isleton, California, native of Jian village, Gharshankar post office Hoshiarpur.\n\n33.\n\nDulip Singh, 35 years, Buru-Barian village Mahilpur post office, Hoshiarpur, uneducated, labourer in Griffin-Shelley Co.\n\n34. Jowala Singh, 50 years, same particulars as (33).\n\n35.\n\nThakur Singh about 30 years, formerly in Army, son of (34). Nos. 32-35 were regular supporters of the Ghadr under their foreman Dharm Singh who is employed at Griffin-Shelley Co. Dharm Singh belongs to Jian village Gharshanker, Hoshiarpur. He is a member of the Stockton Gurdwara which is a hot-bed of sedition and Ghadr.\n\nExcept the four above-mentioned men the rest of the party\n\nPage 203",
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        "content_text": "Telefram\n\nThis son't when The record my OFF FELEGEAK. the Colonies.\n\nflimsy reaches we action subsequently on the papers I had assumed, from sad experience, that the P.S. was regarded as the natural postman on these occasions, and I had that to wait and I find official paper usually hours delay, of means not more.\n\nfor The 246 would suggest that papers of this kind should be minuted to The Private Secretary The General Dept (in that order). If The General Dept would like to deal with it all, I shall be only too glad.\n\nRad. HaB\n\nm.b. There have been similar messages for Lord Lansdowne, from New Zealand, I think. I have spoken to her bailiff. Pul 3 T.CM 18/11/13.\n\n287\n\n53003\n\nThe Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary State for\n\nRea 16 NOV 151\n\n(Received, Colonial Office, 9.8. a.m., 16th November, 1915)\n\nWould be glad if following may be communicated to Lord Lansdowne begins:- Your telegram of 25th September Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation has been instructed to pay you £1,200 collected in Hong Kong on October 21st for the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England Despatch follows by mail.\n\nMAY.",
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        "content_text": "16\n\nCLASS VII\n\nUNDERTAKINGS OF GOVERNMENT.\n\n$ 905,051 7.70%.\n\nTotal 1917\n\nTotal 1918\n\n860,074=7·13 %.\n\nTotal Decrease\n\n$ 98,977\n\n1. Post Office.\n\n17\n\nDecrease.\n\nIncrease.\n\nDecrease.\n\n2. 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        "content_text": "## Inspectors\n| Rank | Salary Range | Increment | Number |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Sergeant-Major |  |  |  |\n| Sergeants |  |  | 11 |\n| Lance-Sergeants |  |  | 10 |\n| Constables, 1st Class |  |  |  |\n|  | $780 to $1,020 | $60 annually |  |\n\n## Indian Police\n| Rank | Salary Range | Increment | Number |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | $780 to $1,020 | $60 annually |  |\n|  | $480 |  | 300 |\n|  | $264 |  |  |\n|  | $360 |  | 276 |\n|  |  |  | 22 |\n|  |  |  | 12 |\n|  |  |  | 55 |\n|  |  |  | 27 |\n|  | $240 |  | 216 |\n|  | Abolish |  |  |\n\nRemittance privileges and Ration Allowance to be continued. The Government pay for additional cost of rations over 20 cents.\n\n## General Grading Scheme for Clerical and General Establishments\n| Grade | Salary Range | Increment | Number |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Higher Grade | $3,360 to $3,900 | $120 biennially | 15 |\n| First Grade | $2,100 to $3,000 | $120 | 17 |\n| Second Grade | $1,800 to $2,280 | $120 | 77 |\n| Third Grade | $1,260 to $1,500 | $120 | 29 |\n| Fourth Grade | $960 to $1,200 | $60 annually | 17 |\n| Fifth Grade | $600 to $780 | $60 | 11 |\n| Sixth Grade | $420 to $540 | $60 | 11 |\n\n## Gaol Staff\n| Rank | Salary Range | Increment | Number |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Senior Warders | $600 to $660 | $12 annually |  |\n| Warders | $480 to $540 | $12 | 31 |\n| Assistant Warders | $360 to $420 | $12 | 59 |\n| Guards | $300 to $336 |  | 15 |\n| Matron | $960 to $1,200 | $60 |  |\n| Wardresses | $420 to $540 | $60 | 27 |\n\nRation allowances to be abolished except in the case of Guards.\n\n## Chinese Police\n| Rank | Salary Range/Allowance |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sergeant-Major and Principal Chinese Detective | Allowance to remain as before |\n| Sergeant, 1st Class |  |\n| Sergeant, 2nd Class |  |\n| Constables, 1st Class |  |\n| Constables, 2nd Class |  |\n| Female Searchers |  |\n\n## Water Police\n| Rank | Salary Range | Increment | Number |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| First Class Coxswain | $420 |  |  |\n| Second Class Coxswain | $300 |  | 51 |\n| Seamen | $168 to $180 |  | 21 |\n| Engineer in Chief | $480 to $600 | $12 annually |  |\n| First Class Engineer | $360 to $420 | $12 | 11 |\n| Second Class Engineer | $276 to $300 | $12 | 27 |\n| Stokers, First Class | $240 |  |  |\n| Stokers, Second Class |  |  | 31 |\n\n## Clerical Grades Adjustment\nIn order to facilitate promotion 50 posts of 5th Grade Clerks should be raised to 4th Grade. With a view to encouraging Portuguese clerks to remain in the Public Service it is desirable as far as practicable to ensure their employment not below the 4th Grade.\n\n## Public Works Department\n| Rank | Salary Range/Grade |\n| --- | --- |\n| Foremen Watchmen | $300 |\n| Store Foremen | $384 |\n| Senior Meter Reader | $192 to $300 |\n| Meter Readers | $180 |\n| Dredger Master | $600 to $780 by $60 annually |\n| Storekeeper | 3rd Grade |\n| Junior Assistant Surveyor | 2nd Grade (Salary to be on dollar scale.) |\n| 3rd Grade Surveyor | 3rd Grade |\n| Computors | 4th Grade |\n| House Service Inspectors | To remain as at present |\n| Tracers | $420 to $1,200 by $60 annually, 5th and 4th Grades combined. Promotion from 5th to 4th to be continuous. |\n| Apprentice Surveyors | 4th and 3rd Grades combined. Promotion from 4th to 3rd to be continuous. |\n| One Tracer |  |\n| Two Tracers |  |\n| Stokers, Second Class | $192 to $216 by $12 annually |\n| Boatmen |  |\n\n## Fire Brigade\n| Rank | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Engineer, Dredger | $360 to $420 |\n| Two Fitters | $300 |\n| Two Store Boys and Tallymen | $300 |\n| Engine Drivers | $360 |\n| Assistant Engine Drivers | $300 |\n| Fitters | $360 |\n| Blacksmith | $360 |\n| Carpenter | $324 |\n| Sail-maker | $192 to $216 by $12 annually |\n| Stokers | $192, $216 |\n| Firemen |  |\n\n## Chinese Revenue Officers\n| Rank | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Chief | $384 |\n| First Class | $300 |\n| Second Class | $264 |\n| Third Class | $240 |\n| Female Searchers | $180 |\n\n## Post Office\n| Rank | Salary Range/Grade |\n| --- | --- |\n| Supervisor | £220 to £300 by £10 annually, 3rd Grade |\n| One Launch Officer | $360 to $420 by $12 annually |\n| One Launch Officer | $300 to $360 by $12 annually |\n| Probationer Sorters | $300 to $360 by $12 annually |\n| Head Postman | 5th Grade, $204 |\n| Postmen | 6th Grade |\n| Carpenter |  |\n| Coxswain |  |\n| Engineer |  |\n| Telegraphists | 4th and 3rd Grades combined. Promotion from 4th to 3rd Grade to be continuous. |\n| Telephone Clerks | 6th Grade |",
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        "content_text": "## 19. References\n\n1. Name: R.T.B. Glampoot  \n   Occupation or position: Eng.  \n   Address: Baldray Grange Grammar School, West Kirby, Cheshire.\n\n2. Name: W.D. Seville Esq.  \n   Occupation or position: Headmaster  \n   Address: The Grammar School, Stockton on Tees.\n\n3. Name: Lt. Colonel John Fraser  \n   Occupation or position: Lt. Colonel  \n   Address: 10 York House, York St., Portman Sq. W.\n\n(These should be persons resident in the United Kingdom, who have known the applicant intimately and are in a position to answer any enquiries that may be made of them. They should not be relatives and should be holders of responsible positions who are acquainted with the applicant's character and work in recent years.)\n\n## 20. Copies of Testimonials from:\n\n1. W.D. Seville Esq.  \n   The Grammar School, Stockton-on-Tees.\n\n2. Miss Lear  \n   Kings House School, Highgate, N.10.\n\n3. F.R. Earp Esq.  \n   East London College, Mile End Rd., London.\n\n4. Day Esq.  \n   Heatherdown, Ascot.\n\nOriginal testimonials may be required, should the applicant be selected for interview. Copies of testimonials should be submitted in duplicate.\n\n## 21. Observations\n\n[Subjects the applicant is prepared to teach and any special qualifications or experience (e.g., music and singing, commercial subjects, languages, literary work, organization or inspection not mentioned under heads 14-18 above, should be given here.]\n\nI have done a good deal of private coaching in general subjects - especially for the Common Entrance examination in which all my pupils have been successful. I am prepared to teach Greek, Latin, Mathematics, French, English, History, elementary Botany, Geography, Needlework, and Scripture.\n\nDorothy Farmer has taught classics and English to one of my boys most successfully. Were it not for the extension of one of the staff, created from military service, I should have kept her on.\n\nShe is capable, with the boys, of being a disciplinarian and a lady at the same time, most obliging and spirited.\n\nS. H. Day  \nHeadmaster\n\nI am a keen cyclist and motorist and am fond of all out-door sports including swimming and rowing.",
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        "content_text": "# EPHONE PADDINGTON 5237.\n\nAckril  \n53  \n**Form: Colonel John Fraser.**  \n10, YORK HOUSE,  \nYORK STREET,  \nPORTMAN SQUARE, W1.  \nFeb. 17-1923.\n\n71.\n\nThe Secretary  \nBombay  \n\nDear Sir,\n\nWith reference to your letter of 7 Feb. and consequent enquiry regarding Miss Borotay Farmer in Hong Kong, I beg to state that Miss Farmer acted as my secretary before he went to Harrow and I found her very satisfactory from every point of view. She knew her subject thoroughly and was most painstaking and patient.\n\nS. 4. 1. Hong Kong Edt Jy? Seneral Swojects Inc's Erass. C. Q. no. 724.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure 2.\n\n**BRITISH CONSULATE,**\n**FOOCHOW, 9th January, 1924.**\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch `File 67/22` of December 29th last.\n\nIn view of the smallness of the gratuity authorized by the Treasury, I agree with your view that it would be preferable to follow Mr. Ross' policy and take up the matter further with London, in the hope that the amounts granted may be increased.\n\nYou doubtless have statistics of the gratuities paid by the other foreign Postal agency; but if not, the following information communicated by Mr. Chi Po-che, may be of use to you.\n\nA clerk who has joined the Chinese Post Office after some six years service in the French Postal Agency here, has been given a gratuity for three months pay. A postman who has also joined the Chinese Post Office after about 13 years with the Japanese Postal Agency has been awarded an amount equal to about a year and a half's pay.\n\nFrom this it would appear that the proposed grant of a month's pay as gratuity is somewhat lacking in generosity, at any rate in the case here, where the late Postal staff have long records of service. I trust therefore that you will see your way to press the Home authorities for an increased gratuity.\n\nA copy of this despatch is being sent to His Majesty's Minister with reference to Mr. Clennell's despatch of December 12th last.\n\nThe circular enclosed in your despatch is returned herewith.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour obedient servant,\n**(sd.) C. Rene Lee**\nActing Consul.\n\nThe Postmaster General,\nHongkong.",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure 5\n## H.B.M. Consulate\n\nNingpo, 8th January, 1924.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch No. `File 67/22` of the 29th December last, in which you raise the question of the adequacy or otherwise of the gratuities authorised by London for the employees of the Postal Agency at this port.\n\nFirst, as regards the suggested bonus for the clerk Chou Ch'ien-wen, I am of the opinion that there would seem to be no good reason for giving him a bonus of any kind. He had been employed only for four years, and when the agency was closed, he to all intents and purposes merely continued his service in the employ of the Consulate. He lost nothing by the closing of the agency, and consequently I do not see that he can justly claim any bonus.\n\nSecondly, however, as regards the postmen, they had both served for considerable periods. Pei Ch'ung-shen was postman for over twenty-one years, and Yung Ah-foo for fourteen years. They must have spent their best years in the service of the Postal Agency, and would seem to be entitled to something more than a mere month's wages at the end of those years of service. A gratuity reckoned on the number of years of their service with a maximum of forty years service might form the basis. Thus $14.40 x 12 months is $172.80, and 21/40 of that is $90.72, which might reasonably be awarded to Pei Ch'ung-sheng. Further $13.20 x 12 months is $158.40, and 14/40 of that is $55.44, which I suggest is a fair gratuity to Yung Ah-foo.\n\nI have filled in the circular, but I send the above as giving a more intelligible statement of the case.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour obedient servant,\n**(sd.) H.F.H.Derry**\nActing Consul.\n\nThe Postmaster General,\nHongkong.",
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        "content_text": "## \nTOE .1900 \n\nIt is requested that the undermentioned postmen be granted gratuities and allowances as shown.\n\n| Name | Position | Monthly Allowance | Gratuity |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Chan Sing | Postman, Amoy | $72.00 p.a. | $360.00 (36 yrs service) |\n| Tan Yat Tung | Postman, Canton | $37.44 p.m. | $187.20 (5 years) |\n| An Tze Hoi | Postman, Canton |  | $78.00 |\n| Wong King Yeun | Postman, Chefoo |  | $42.00 |\n| Ling Tang-lung | Postman, Foochow | $42.00 p.a. | $210.00 (25 yrs 5m service) |\n| Chang Marton | Postman, Hankow |  | $36.00 |\n| Pei Cheong Sung | Postman, Ningpo | $47.52 p.a. | $237.60 (5 yrs) |\n| Yung Ah-for | Postman, Ningpo |  | $79.20 |\n\nI would ask for immediate authority to make these payments since British prestige is to some extent involved. The whole question can be fought out with the Imperial Government.\n\nYours etc.,  \n**(sd.) R.E.Lindsell**  \nPostmaster General  \n27.2.24.",
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        "content_text": "# SHANGHAI\n310\n\n| Name of Officer | Length of Service | Annual Colonial Pensions & Gratuities | Office Based on Hongkong Ordinances | Imperial Government Gratuities authorised by Imperial Government | Present employment | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Brought forward |  | $2462.46 | $4284.66 | $1310.47 | $3524.61 |  |  |\n| Postman Chow Fook Chong | 3 1 | 3 19 | 2 1 |  | 26.43 | 1 mth pay 16.60 |\n| Chinese B.O. |  | 15.60 | 20.08 | 15.60 | 1 | 15.60 |\n| Office Boy Yang Fock King | 1 3 | 1 3 |  | 10 | 6.48 H.K. | 6.48 14.40 |\n| Yang Tuck-ling | 10 | 10 | 1 | Less than 1 yrs Service | - |  |\n| Yang Ching Doo | 6 | 10 | 6 |  |  |  |\n| Mailman Yang Ching-pac | 8 8 | 8 8 |  | 86.40 | 1 mth pay | 21.60 |\n| Postman Poo Ziang Kwei | 10 3 | 10 3 |  | 78.00 | 15.60 | N 1 43.20 46.80 |\n| Ho Ab Tseng | 5 10 | 5 10 |  | 36.00 | 14.40 | 2 | 28.80 Dismissed from |\n| Zee Chin Tao | 1 0 | 1 0 |  | 6.00 | H.K. | 6.00 Chinese Post Off- Pension red.. |\n| Dzung Wo Shing | 2 6 | 2 6 |  |  |  |  |\n| Ng Cheng Kung | 6 | 2 | 6 |  |  | Coolie |\n| Liu King Yuen | 2 0 | 2 0 |  |  |  |  |\n| Lee Lai Yung | 1 0 | 1 0 | 1 |  | 12.00 | 12.00 1 mth pay | 12.00 Chinese P.O. 12.00 1 | 12.00 12.00 |\n| Poo Yick Kee | 1 0 | 1 0 | - |  | 6.00 | 6.00 N 1 | 12.00 |\n|  |  |  |  | $2462.46 | $4591.75 | $1453.75 | $3749.01 |",
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        "content_text": "## List of Chinese employees transfered from Hongkong to Imperial Government\n\n| Agency | Office | Name of Officer | Length of service |  |  | Amount of gratuity recommended by | Proportionate share of the gratuity |  |  |\n| :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | --- | --- |  | Hongkong | Imperial Government |  |\n|  |  |  | Colonial | Imperial | Topl | Postmaster General Hongkong | Months | Months |  |\n|  |  |  | Yr m | Yr m | Yr m |  |  |  |  |\n| Shanghai | 2/Grade Clerk | Lam Ho Chi | 9 6 | 2 1 | 11 7 | 425.01 | 114/159 | 348.57 | 76.44 |\n|  | Compradore | Li King Sung | 9 0 | 11 11 | 20 11 | 540.00 | 108/251 | 232.35 | 307.65 |\n|  | Compradore | Li Pac-lin | 5 0 | 11 11 | 16 11 | 384.00 | 60/203 | 113.50 | 270.50 |\n|  | Clerk | Chang Ken Son | 2 4 | 11 11 | 14 3 | 270.00 | 28/171 | 44.21 | 225.70 |\n|  |  | Wong Dzau-tsong | 7 3 | 11 11 | 19 2 | 264.00 | 87/230 | 99.86 | 164.14 |\n|  |  | Nui Ang Sung | 6 6 | 11 11 | 18 5 | 144.00 | 78/221 | 50.02 | 93.16 |\n|  | Shroff | Uzung Tsing-fook | 6 8 | 11 11 | 18 7 | 168.00 | 80/223 | 60.27 | 107.73 |\n|  | Mail Man | Kong An Ngah | 5 5 | 11 11 | 17 4 | 76.80 | 65/208 | 24.00 | 52.80 |\n|  | Postran | Ng Si Yung | 5 0 | 6 4 | 12 4 | 46.80 | 5/140 | 1.58 | 45.22 |\n| Amoy | Postman | Chan Sing | 24 9 | 11 11 | 36 8 | 408.00 | 297/440 | 275.40 | 132.60 |\n|  | Boatraal | Haui Hang Yuan Ong Kau | 4 0 | 11 11 | 15 11 | 52.00 | 43/191 | 13.27 | 39.53 |\n|  |  |  | 4 0 | 11 11 | 15 11 | 52.80 | 45/191 | 13.27 | 39.53 |\n| Canton | 4/Grade Clerk | Chang Ving Shu | 5 5 | 11 11 | 17 4 | 288.00 | 65/208 | 90.00 | 198.00 |\n|  | Postman | Kam Cheong-fu | 8 5 | 11 11 | 20 4 | 78.00 | 101/244 | 32.29 | 45.71 |\n|  |  | Tam Yat Tung | 5 9 | 11 11 | 17 8 | 187.20 | 69/212 | 60.98 | 126.27 |\n|  |  | Kwan Cheong | 4 1 | 11 11 | 16 0 | 62.40 | 49/192 | 15.92 | 46.48 |\n| Chefoo | Clerk | Wong Lin-tsao | 7 1 | 11 11 | 19 0 | 240.00 | 85/228 | 89.47 | 150.53 |\n|  | Postman | Chew Ku Yuon | ... 1 | 11 11 | 12 0 | 45.00 | 1/144 | ... .31 | 44.69 |\n| Foochow | 5/Grade Clerk | Chi Po Che | 16 0 | 11 11 | 27 11 | 396.00 | 192/335 | 226.96 | 169.04 |\n|  |  | Chang Chun Ching | 9 10 | 11 11 | 21 9 | 210.00 | 118/261 | 94.34 | 115.66 |\n|  | Postman | Ling Tang-lung | 13 6 | 11 11 | 25 5 | 246.00 | 162/305 | 130.66 | 115.34 |\n|  |  | Carried Forward |  |  |  | $4584.80 |  | $2018.58 | $2566.23",
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        "content_text": "319 \n\n## Length of Service \n\n| Agency | Office | Name of Officer | Colonial | Imperial | Total Months | Amount of Gratuity recommended by Postmaster General | Proportionate share of the gratuity |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  |  |  | Months | Months |  |  | Hongkong | Imperial Government |\n| Brought Forward |  |  |  |  |  | $4534.91 |  |  |\n|  | Postman | Tang Ping Chong | 6.0 | 11 | 17.11 | 72/215 | 2018.53 | 143/215 | 23.73 |\n| Ningpo |  | Pei Cheong Sung Yung Ah-for | 11 | 11 | 23 | 237.60 | 6/149 | 79.20 | 140/283 | 117.54 | 3.19 |\n| Swatow | 5th Grade Clerk | Gigran Ang Cheng Ngou | 4.2 | 11 | 16.1 | 264.00 | 50/193 | 68.39 | 143/283 | 120.06 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 143/149 | 76.01 | 143/193 | 195.61 |  |\n| Tientsin | 5th Grade Clerk | Goh Soon Feu | 3.9 | 11 | 13.8 | 57.60 | 45/188 | 13.79 | 143/188 | 43.31 |  |\n|  |  | Wong Te-zo Hsiang | 4.3 | 11 | 16.2 | 264.00 | 51/194 | 69.40 | 143/194 | 194.60 |  |\n|  | Shroff | Sun Tai Cheung | 3.11 | 11 | 15.10 | 168.00 | 47/190 | 41.56 | 143/190 | 126.44 |  |\n|  | Postman | Tai Van Sum | 4.0 | 11 | 15.11 | 62.40 | 48/191 | 15.68 | 143/191 | 46.72 |  |\n|  |  | Chan Kwei-rong | 4.3 | 11 | 16.2 | 62.40 |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Wai Tak Shun | 3.5 | 11 | 15.4 | 63.40 | 41/184 | 16.40 | 143/194 | 46.72 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 51/194 | 13.00 | 143/184 | 48.50 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  | $5885.61 |  | $2392.90 |  | $3492.97 |",
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        "content_text": "36\n\n4. All the students of the various schools assert that after the demonstrators had been mown down by machine-gun fire, they saw several European soldiers and officers preparing to open the bridge gate and charge; fortunately the cadets arrived at this moment, and the Europeans reshut the gates and withdrew. Whence it follows that if the cadets had not arrived in time to protect the demonstrators, the number of killed and wounded would have been greater still. How can one slander the cadets by throwing on to them the responsibility of opening fire?\n\nThe above four points are the outcome of the depositions made by male and female students present on the spot, being what they assert that they saw with their own eyes. Thus there is clear proof that the fusillade began from Shameen. Moreover, Shameen used machine guns; the firing was violent; the wounds of the victims, being of large diameter, cannot have been caused by ordinary bullets. This is still more horrible and inhuman.\n\nIn the meantime, stories of all sorts have been invented on Shameen, and the invention is still going on. Not only were there numerous stories prior to the incident, such as that in the letter of the British consul, but we have also learnt that on the 24th the same consul sent round a circular announcing that Shameen would be attacked by Whampoa cadets on that day. Stories of the same nature are still being circulated at the present minute, and there are not wanting people who believe them.\n\nWe do not understand the object of all this. Our Government, after an outrage of this magnitude, has continued none the less to provide foreigners with the most complete protection. In previous letters the British and French consuls requested us to protect the life and property of foreigners. On this subject I, the Civil Governor, had already in the past made declarations in explicit terms. After the massacre I again declared in despatches addressed to the German and American consuls on the same evening that we would protect the lives and property of foreigners; also we urged Chinese citizens to use peaceful and orderly means to procure the abolition of unequal treaties, and not to have recourse to brutal measures of retaliation. In addition, on the 24th we forbade the military to approach Shakee and the environs of Shameen, either in bands or separately. This would appear to prove that our Government protects foreign life and property to the best of its ability; but if Shameen foreigners continue to increase the number of their military forces, this will in any case excite the populace and make our task of pacifying them difficult. It will, moreover, show that France and Great Britain intend to renew their previous aggressive proceedings. The British and French consuls should therefore be requested to give an assurance that from now on they will not increase their military forces here. If their gunboats and troops are not augmented, negotiations will be pro tanto facilitated.\n\nInasmuch as the recent massacre of Chinese subjects constitutes a complete abrogation of all the laws of humanity and cannot by universal law be tolerated, we make the following demands:--\n\n(1.) Apologies will be made by High Commissioners appointed by the Powers interested to the Government of Canton,\n\n(2.) The senior officers responsible shall be punished.\n\n(3.) With the exception of two despatch vessels, all naval units of the Powers interested shall be withdrawn.\n\n(4.) Shameen shall be returned to the Government of Kuangtung and placed under the administration thereof.\n\n(5.) The victims and their families shall be compensated.\n\nYou will request the British and French consuls to put these demands before their Ministers at Peking and their respective Secretaries of State, so that they may reply thereto, and you will inform us what steps are taken by the said consuls on receipt of your official despatch.\n\nI have accordingly the honour, gentlemen, to write to you to request that you will take the necessary action.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nFU PING-CH'ANG.\n\n37\n\nANNEX VIII.\n\nConsul-General Jamieson to Mr. Austen Chamberlain.\n\n(No. 90. Confidential.)\n\nSir,\n\nCanton, September 7, 1925.\n\nI HAVE the honour to enclose herewith, for your confidential information, an interesting analysis of the casualties incurred by the Chinese side on the occasion of the Shakee incident of the 23rd June, which has been made by Dr. J. Oscar Thomson, chief surgeon of the Canton Hospital, who is an American citizen.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. W. JAMIESON.\n\nEnclosure 1.\n\nDr. Thomson, Canton Hospital, to Mr. Jenkins, United States Consul-General.\n\nDear Mr. Jenkins,\n\nCanton, August 31, 1925.\n\nA MEMBER of the Chinese Commission of Investigation of the Shameen-Shakee affair of the 23rd June, requested me to proof-read the medical terminology of the lists of the Chinese killed, wounded and otherwise injured in that affair. I have done so, and returned the lists to him with some corrections of fact as well as of terminology. While doing this, I was interested to make an analysis of the occupations of those wounded and the nature of the injuries received. This follows, substantially correct, according to the official Chinese list, which I understand is to be published later. In the meantime this is of course not for publication.\n\nAnalysis of Occupations and Wounds and Injuries of Chinese in the Shameen-Shakee Affair of June 23, compiled from the Official List of the Chinese Commission of Investigation.\n\nTotal casualties, 169, as follows: soldiers, practically all of the Whampoa army, 85, or 49 per cent.; students, 29, 17 per cent.; unknown, 20, 12 per cent.; labourers, 18, 11 per cent.; merchants, 11, 7 per cent.; peddlers, 5, 3 per cent.; miscellaneous, 7.\n\nKilled: total, 52; 44 of the 52 were killed by bullets; cause not specified, 7; 1 boy scout trampled to death; soldiers, 26, 50 per cent.; unknown, 9, 17 per cent.; merchants, 8, 15 per cent.; labourers, 3, 6 per cent.; students, 3, 6 per cent.; professor, 1; apprentice, 1; peddler, 1.\n\nWounded by bullets and injured by crowd, total 117, thus: soldiers, 56, or 48 per cent.; students, 26, 23 per cent.; labourers, 13, 11 per cent.; unknown, 11, 9 per cent.; peddlers, 4, 3 per cent.; merchants, 3, 2 per cent.; postman, 1; seaman, 1; policeman, 1; fortune-teller, 1.\n\nWounded by bullets: 77, of whom 56 (or 75 per cent.) were soldiers; labourers, 8, 14 per cent.; unknown occupation, 5, 6 per cent.; merchants, 3, 4 per cent.; peddlers, 3, 4 per cent.; students, 2, 3 per cent.; some of the soldiers were shot through the axilla, evidently while the arm was raised in firing.\n\nWounded by fall, collision or trampled on by crowd, for the most part not seriously injured total 40; students, 24, 65 per cent.; labourers, 5, 13 per cent.; soldiers, 3, 8 per cent.; unknown, 3, 8 per cent.; policeman, 1; seaman, 1; peddler, 1; fortune-teller, 1; woman, 1.\n\nKilled not by bullets, 44; trampled, 1; cause not specified, 7; total 52.\n\nWounded: shot by bullets, 77; trampled by crowd, 40; total 117.\n\n513",
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        "content_text": "38\n\nKilled.\n\nOccupations.\n\nBullets.\n\nTrampled.\n\nBullets.\n\nSoldiers Labourers\n\nMerchants\n\nStudents\n\nUnknown\n\nPeddlers\n\nProfessor\n\nApprentice Boy scout Postman Seaman Policeman\n\n26\n\n8\n\n56\n\n&\n\n3\n\nWounded.\n\nTotals.\n\nTrampled.\n\nON KO\n\n2\n\n84\n\n5\n\n16\n\n:\n\n11\n\n29\n\n20\n\n4\n\n1\n\n1\n\n39\n\nkeeping. These had been extracted from patients wounded in that affair. From the nature of the wounds, which were not serious, the patients walking into the hospital and returning to their homes afterwards; the condition of the patients; and from a careful examination of the bullets, it is obvious they were mere ricochets. Furthermore, as you know, The Hague Convention does not allow the use of dumdum bullets. Also samples of bullets used by the Shameen forces, I am told, were given to the consuls of neutral nations.\n\nYou are probably also aware that the French gunboat fired blanks, and not shells nor cannon balls. It would therefore also be wise not to refer to such.\n\nI am glad to see from your list that the great majority of those killed and wounded by bullets were not civilians, but soldiers. Judging by those admitted to this hospital, and from your list, very few of the civilians who were in the procession were injured by bullets, most of the civilians so injured being evidently spectators standing along Shakee as the soldiers were passing.\n\nOf course the wounds received by those on both sides of the canal were severe, because of the shortness of the range. You know that our experience in the treating of gunshot wounds has been considerable.\n\nFaithfully yours,\n\nFortune-teller..\n\n52\n\n(or 30 per cent.)\n\n77\n\n1\n\n1\n\n40\n\n(or 45 per cent.) (or 24 per cent.)\n\nKilled or wounded by bullets: total 129, of whom 82 (or 63 per cent.) were soldiers, of the Whampoa army chiefly; occupation unknown, 14, 11 per cent; merchants, 11, 9 per cent.; labourers, 11, 9 per cent.; students, 5, 4 per cent.; peddlers, 4, 3 per cent.; miscellaneous occupations, 3 persons.\n\nFrom the above analysis and from questioning those civilians who were wounded on that occasion and who were brought to this Canton Hospital for treatment, it would appear that it was the military part of the procession that received practically the whole of the attention of the Shameen forces, as large numbers of soldiers were wounded and killed, whereas very few of the civilians in the procession were wounded or killed, although some were trampled by the crowd. wounded seem to have been spectators lining the route as the soldiers passed their Most of the civilians killed and section of Shakee during the fight.\n\nI shall be glad if you will not publish this statement-it has not yet been made public.\n\nJ. OSCAR THOMSON,\n\nChief Surgeon, Canton Hospital.\n\nANNEX IX.\n\nColonial Office to Foreign Office.-(Received August 5.)\n\n[F3668/194/10]\n\nSir,\n\nDowning Street, August 5, 1925.\n\nI AM directed by Mr. Secretary Amery to transmit to you, to be laid before Mr. Secretary Chamberlain, the accompanying copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, with its enclosures, in regard to the strike in that colony.\n\nI am, &c. (For Under-Secretary of State),\n\nJ. J. PASKIN.\n\nFaithfully yours,\n\nJ. ÓSCAR THOMSON,\n\nChief Surgeon, Canton Hospital.\n\n(Confidential.)\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure.\n\nSir R. H. Stubbs to Mr. Amery.\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\nDr. J. 0. Thomson to Mr. Lei Ying Lam, Member, Commission of Investigation, Shameen-Shakee Affair of June 23, 1925.\n\nDear Mr. Lei,\n\nCanton Hospital, August 31, 1925.\n\nI AM returning to you herewith the proof sheets of the lists of the Chinese who were killed, wounded or hurt upon the occasion of the Shameen-Shakke affair of the 23rd June, which you asked me terminology. This I have done, and I have made some corrections in the medical to proof-read, especially with reference to the\n\nterms.\n\nYou will also note that I have made some other corrections. For instance, I have crossed out the several references to \"dumdum, or soft-nosed bullets.\" admitted to this hospital were carefully examined by myself and by one at least of the All cases Chinese surgeons.\n\nAll patients that had retained bullets or had fractured bones were X-rayed. The bullets extracted were also carefully examined. After this had been done, on the 25th June I received a letter from Dr. C. C. Wu, who was then Secretary for Foreign Affairs, enquiring as to the nature of the wounds, and whether there was any evidence of \"dumdums\" being used. I replied officially that we had seen no evidence of dumdum bullets being used or of wounds being caused by them. no cause to change our minds.\n\nWe have Several ricochet bullets were borrowed from this hospital by the police department upon their promise to return them to us for safe\n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong, June 26, 1925.\n\nWITH reference to my telegram of the 26th June, I have the honour to report the course of events in connection with the strike situation.\n\n2. The Shanghai incident, so far as could be seen, was entirely disregarded by the Chinese in the colony. The Cantonese were in any event too busy with their own affairs, as they were about to make a supreme effort to oust the Yunnanese troops from Canton, an effort which was successfully accomplished on the 12th June. Mr. C. C. Wu, Minister for Foreign Affairs in Canton, Mr. Foo Ping-sheung, Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, and Mr. Sun Fo, son of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, were passing through Hong Kong at the time, on their way from Swatow to Canton, and, with my permission, they were met informally at the house of one of the Chinese members of the Legislative Council by Mr. Tratman, Acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and Mr. Fletcher, Assistant Colonial Secretary. They professed an attitude of sincere friendship towards Hong Kong, and they appeared to be confident that they would be able to control the situation in Canton. It was suggested to them that the cumulative effect of the assistance already accepted from Russia in the shape of arms, money, Russian officers and Russian-trained cadets would be such that, in the event of a victory over the Yunnanese, the Red element in the Cantonese army might become the master instead of the servant of the Canton Government; but they appeared to be satisfied that such would not be the case. The event has proved otherwise, and for the time being at any rate Communist counsels prevail.\n\n3. The strike which has been organised in Hong Kong is entirely due to these Communist agitators in Canton. They have, of course, taken the Shanghai incident as their pretext, but they have found the Cantonese for the most part entirely\n\n514",
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        "content_text": "wounded, in 13 cases the cause of death is not stated, and 39 (including 3 soldiers, 17 students, 2 women, a postman, a fortune-teller, etc.) were hurt through contact with the crowd. The other 65 were wounded by bullets. Of the 65 so wounded, 40 were soldiers, 5 were students, 3 were labourers, 3 were pedlars, 5 were unidentified, and there was an oilman, a seaman, a postman and a policeman. All together, 22 soldiers and 4 students were killed and 50 soldiers and 5 students were wounded by bullets from Shameen. The percentage of soldiers to the total killed is 50; the percentage of students is 9. Fifty-four per cent, of the wounded were soldiers, and seven per cent, were students. The number of soldiers killed and wounded represents 56.8% of the total casualties from gun-fire, while the percentage of students to the total is 8.2.\n\nThis analysis of the official record is a certificate that the fire from Shameen was concentrated on the soldiers, who were between the British and French bridges, and not on a defenceless crowd. The rest of the procession had passed westward out of the zone of fire, and most of the civilian casualties were due to stray bullets and ricochets. The majority of these accident cases were spectators and passers-by, and people on business or plying their trade in the vicinity, who were in a state of panic. Yet Mr. C. C. Wu, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in his distorted version of the incident forwarded to Karakhan, the Soviet Ambassador at Peking, stated that \"fire was opened from Shameen on the demonstrators, particularly the students.\" Was Mr. Wu merely repeating the wild stories circulated by those who took part in the procession but who, on account of its length, had not the slightest opportunity of seeing what really happened? His statements are amply discredited from every point of view: and one is forced to the conclusion that he is either wilfully untruthful or woefully ignorant, for he mis-states the facts when he does not omit them altogether.\n\nPage xi\n\nThe Commissioners urge that if the attack from Shameen had not been sudden, the wounded would have escaped or at least the wounds would have been in the back instead of the left side.\" The relevancy of the remark is not apparent. It was not so long ago that an outcry was raised in Shanghai because a few people had been hit in the back. The fact was charged up to the British as a heinous crime. However, the parade in Canton moved forward from the east, keeping Shameen on the left, the canal between. Shakee Street is wide, but not so wide that when it carries a large procession it still leaves room for unfettered locomotion. Moreover, the exits from Shakee Street are into very narrow lanes which soon become congested. And soldiers standing their ground would naturally add to the restrictions on the movements of non-combatants. Nevertheless, the fact that 56 per cent. of the casualties from bullets were soldiers indicates that many civilians did succeed in retreating unscathed. The few who were wounded before they escaped from the melée would naturally be hit in the left side, or in the right side if they were running in the opposite direction.\n\nThe report further states, on the authority of Dr. Kwok, Physician of the Whampoa Academy (The Red Military School), that the Shameen authorities used Dum-dum or soft-nosed bullets. Dr. Kwok's evidence is not given, but the evidence of Dr. J. D. Thomson, Surgeon to the Canton Hospital, is reproduced, and this tends to substantiate the opposite conclusion. He says: \"The entrance wounds were for the most part either in the front or side of the body. Some of the wounds were obviously caused by ricochet and spent bullets. The missiles which caused several larger wounds were not determined.\" The manufacture of Dum-dum...\n\nPage 487",
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        "content_text": "Head 11-POST OFFICE\n\nApproved Estimate, 1927. $116,182\n\nEstimate, 1928. $120,120\n\nSub-heads :-\n\nPersonal Emoluments\n\n  \n     \n    1927\n    1928\n  \n  \n    Class V Postal Clerks, Shroffs $900 to $1,150 by $50 annually\n    6,540\n    7,280\n  \n  \n    15 Revenue Officers, 3 at $480, 3 at $240, 3 at $120 each, 2 at $600 and 4 at $360 each\n    16,220\n    \n  \n  \n    Class VI Postal Clerks, $450 to $850 by $50 annually\n    38\n    13\n  \n  \n    1 Class V Shroff at $120 to 12 at $72 each\n    864\n    \n  \n  \n    Sunday and Holiday Work Allowances to 30 at $36 each, 12 at $67 each and 1 at $134\n    3,822\n    3,714\n  \n  \n    Probationer Sorters, at $360 each\n    1,440\n    \n  \n  \n    Sunday and Holiday Work Allowances at $36 each\n    200\n    \n  \n  \n    Inspector of Postman, ($2,200 to $2,800 by $150 annually)\n    4,000\n    3,000\n  \n  \n    Sunday and Holiday Work Allowance\n    300\n    600\n  \n  \n    Launch Officers, ($1,300 to $1,750 by $50 annually)\n    2,454\n    2,604\n  \n  \n    Sunday and Holiday Work Allowances to 1 at $201 and 3 at $108 each\n    525\n    525\n  \n  \n    Head Postman, ($400 to $500 by 10 annually)\n    500\n    500\n  \n  \n    Postmen, 1st Class, ($300 to $372 by $12 annually)\n    11\n    17\n  \n  \n    Do., Rent Allowances at $48 each\n    28\n    70\n  \n  \n    Postmen, 2nd Class, at $228 each\n    15,960\n    15,960\n  \n  \n    Postmen, 3rd Class, at $180 each\n    11,340\n    11,340\n  \n  \n    Do., Rent Allowances to 50 at $48 each, and 53 at $24 each\n    4,920\n    4,392\n  \n  \n    Do., Good Conduct Allowances\n    1,615\n    1,588\n  \n  \n    Do., Sunday and Holiday Work Allowances to 1 at $34, 9 at $17 each, and 124 at $9 each\n    1,303\n    1,303\n  \n  \n    Coolies, at $132 each\n    264\n    261\n  \n  \n    Do., Good Conduct Allowance\n    12\n    \n  \n  \n    Do., Rent Allowances, at $48 each\n    96\n    \n  \n  \n    Do., Sunday and Holiday Work Allowances, at $9 each\n    96\n    \n  \n  \n    Carpenter, ($288 to $320 by $12 annually)\n    \n    311\n  \n  \n    Painter, ($300 to $360 by $12 annually)\n    \n    320\n  \n  \n    Mail Bag Coolies, at $132 each\n    2,112\n    \n  \n  \n    Rent Allowances to 10 at $48 each and 6 at $24 each\n    624\n    624\n  \n  \n    Sunday and Holiday Allowances, at $9 each\n    144\n    144\n  \n  \n    Total Personal Emoluments\n    185,120\n    \n  \n\nOther Charges\n\n  \n    \n    1927\n    1928\n  \n  \n    2 Advertisements\n    100\n    100\n  \n  \n    3 Binding Permits\n    420\n    120\n  \n  \n    4 Candles and Batteries for searching purposes\n    400\n    700\n  \n  \n    5 Cleansing Materials and Washing\n    350\n    400\n  \n  \n    6 Conveyance and Motor Allowances\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Superintendent at $480\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Assistant Superintendent at $180\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Assistant Superintendent and Monopoly Analyst at $480\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Chief Preventive Officer at $360\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Senior Revenue Officer at $600\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    7 Electric Light and Heating\n    32,473\n    \n  \n  \n    8 Incidental Expenses\n    2,018\n    \n  \n  \n    9 Liquor Labels, Printing\n    4\n    1\n  \n  \n    10 Office Cleaning Materials\n    1,500\n    700\n  \n  \n    11 Electric Fans and Light\n    1,400\n    1,400\n  \n  \n    12 Fuel\n    20,000\n    18,000\n  \n  \n    13 Incidental Expenses\n    150\n    150\n  \n  \n    14 Miscellaneous Stores\n    1,200\n    2,000\n  \n  \n    15 Packing Expenses\n    32,000\n    29,000\n  \n  \n    16 Purchase of Raw Opium, etc.\n    630,000\n    600,000\n  \n  \n    17 Rent of Quarters for Staff\n    1,800\n    1,200\n  \n  \n    18 Repairs and Renewals\n    1,000\n    1,000\n  \n  \n    19 Transport\n    2,000\n    2,000\n  \n  \n    20 Revenue Reward Fund\n    5,000\n    3,000\n  \n  \n    21 Stationery, etc.\n    300\n    300\n  \n  \n    22 Transport\n    2,000\n    2,000\n  \n  \n    23 Uniforms for Revenue Officers and Messengers\n    7,300\n    8,500\n  \n  \n    24 Upkeep of Adding Machines and Duplicator\n    125\n    \n  \n\nSPECIAL EXPENDITURE\n\n  \n    \n    1927\n    1928\n  \n  \n    25 Purchase of Motor Car\n    \n    3,000\n  \n  \n    Revenue Locks for Tobacco Warehouses\n    1,000\n    \n  \n\nTotal Imports and Exports Department\n\n$855,767\n\n$805,170\n\n(1) Considered sufficient\n\n(2) Previous provision insufficient\n\n(3) Allowances to two more Revenue Officers\n\n(4) $1,300 transferred to Head 29.-Public Works Department\n\n(5) Larger offices\n\n(6) More apparatus for Monopoly Analyst\n\n(7) More uniforms\n\n(8) Now included under subhead 8\n\n(9) Non-recurrent\n\nPage 135\n\n23\n\nHead 12.-IMPORTS & EXPORTS OFFICE\n\nApproved Estimate, 1927.\n\nEstimate, 1928.",
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        "content_text": "No 512.\n\n28 JAN 1928\n\nSir,\n\n52750\n\n— 9 JAN 1928\n\n3\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\nHONGKONG. 6th December, 1927.\n\nWith reference to your despatch No.114 of 30th April, 1927, concerning the \"clubbed packet\" system for which provision is made in the Ordinance to amend the law relating to the Post Office, I have the honour to enclose in original a Memorandum of Agreement to regulate the exchange of clubbed packets between the Administration of Posts of Hong Kong, and the Administration of Posts of China.\n\nFive copies of the Memorandum are also enclosed.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient humble servant,\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\nLIEUTENANT COLONEL L.O.H.S. AMERY, M.P.\n&c., &c., &c.\n\nGovernor, &c.\n\nAGREEMENT TO REGULATE THE EXCHANGE OF CLUBBED PACKETS\nBETWEEN THE ADMINISTRATION OF POSTS OF HONG KONG AND\nTHE ADMINISTRATION OF POSTS OF CHINA.\n\nIt is hereby agreed between the Administration of Posts of Hong Kong and the Administration of Posts of China to admit to their respective services Clubbed Packets.\n\nA Clubbed packet is a packet containing a collection of Chinese letters made up by a firm called a Postal Hong, not connected with the Post Office, and transmitted by post with a view to the letters enclosed therein being delivered to more than one person through the agent of the firm by which the packet was made up.\n\nClubbed packets must be fully prepaid at the rate of 4 cents for each half ounce.\n\nNo Clubbed packet may exceed 4 lbs. 6 ozs. in weight.\n\nEach Clubbed packet must bear on its cover or wrapper the name or \"chop\" of the sending Postal Hong.\n\nClubbed packets are subject to the internal laws and regulations of the country of origin.\n\nThis agreement will remain in force until denounced by either Administration by giving one month's notice in advance.\n\nDone in triplicate and signed at\nHONG KONG on 1st October 1927.\nPEKING on 1st November 1927.\n\nFor the Post Administration of Hong Kong.\nhio Breen\nPostmaster General.\n\nFor the Post Administration of China.\nDirector General.\nCo-Director General, Aricard-Destela..",
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        "content_text": "106\n\n22\n\nHead 11.-POST OFFICE\n\nHead 12.-IMPORTS & EXPORTS OFFICE\n\nApproved Estimate, 1928.\n\nEstimate, 1929.\n\nApproved Estimate, 1928,\n\nEstimate, 1929.\n\nHead 12.-IMPORTS & EXPORTS OFFICE\n\nPOST OFFICE,--Continued.\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\nSub-heads :-\n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS, Continued.\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\n120,120\n\n121,676\n\nDetails of the foregoing,—Continued.\n\nOther Charges\n\n2 Advertisements\n\n100\n\n100\n\nBrought forward\n\n77,943\n\n108,795\n\n3 Binding Permits\n\n120\n\n120\n\nNUMBERS,\n\n1928 1929\n\n12\n\n12\n\n4\n\n4\n\n4 Candles and Batteries for searching purposes\n\n700\n\n700\n\n5 Cleansing Materials and Washing\n\n400\n\n400\n\nDo. Do.\n\nShroffs\n\nClass V Postal Clerks, $900 to $1,150 by $50 annually Sunday and Holiday Work Allowances\n\n6 Conveyance and Motor Allowances to :—\n\n16,220\n\n16,338\n\nSuperintendent at $660.....\n\nAssistant Superintendent at $180\n\n38\n\n36\n\nClass VI Postal Clerks, | $450 to\n\n13\n\n13\n\nDo. Do.\n\nShroffs\n\n10 11 at $72 each and I at $134\n\n$850 by $30 annually\n\n864\n\n926\n\nAssistant Superintendent and Monopoly Analyst at $480...\n\nChief Preventive Officer at $360...\n\n7,080\n\n5,100\n\n32,473\n\n31,304\n\n(I)\n\nSenior Revenue Officer at $180......\n\nSunday and Holiday Work Allowances to 28 at $36 each, 11 at $67 each and at $134\n\n15 Revenue Officers, 1 at $480, 3 at $240, 4 at $120 each, 1 at $360 and 6 at $180 each\n\n2,018\n\n4\n\n5\n\nProbationer Sorters, 4 at $360 each and 1 at $600...\n\nDo. Sunday and Holiday Work Allowances at $36 each\n\n1,440\n\n1,879 2,040\n\n1 Class V Shroff at $120\n\n(2)\n\n7 Electric Light and Heating\n\n200\n\n200\n\n144\n\n180\n\n1\n\n1\n\nInspector of Postman, ($2,200 to $2,800 by $150 annually)\n\n8 Incidental Expenses\n\n1,000\n\n1,000\n\n2,604\n\n2,754\n\n4\n\n4\n\n1\n\n1\n\nDo. Sunday and Holiday Work Allowance... Launch Officers, ($1,300 to $1,750 by $50 annually)\n\nDo. Sunday and Holiday Work Allowances to 1 at $201 and 3 at $108 each\n\nHead Postman, ($400 to $500 by $10 annually).\n\n108\n\n108\n\n9 Liquor Labels, Printing\n\n3,000\n\n3,000\n\n5,530\n\n5,845\n\n10 Office Cleaning Materials\n\n600\n\n600\n\n525\n\n525\n\n500\n\n500\n\nOPIUM.\n\n11\n\n11\n\n2,283\n\n70\n\n70\n\nDo.. Sunday and Holiday Work Allowance.! Postmen, 1st Class, ($800 to $972 by $12 annually)]\n\nDo. Rent Allowances at $48 each.... Postmen, 2nd Class, at $228 each\n\n17\n\n17\n\n3,714\n\n3,807\n\n11 Electric Fans and Light\n\n1,400\n\n1,400\n\n528\n\n528\n\n15,960\n\n15,960\n\n12 Fuel\n\n18,000\n\n18,000\n\n63\n\n63\n\nDo.,\n\n3rd Class, at $180 each...\n\n11,340\n\n11,340\n\nDo.,\n\nRent Allowances to 50 at $48 each, and 83 at $24 each\n\n13 Incidental Expenses\n\n150\n\n130\n\n4,392\n\n4,392\n\nDo.,\n\nGood Conduct Allowances to 27 at $36 each, 6 at $24 each, 1 at $22, 1 at $20, 2 at $19 each, 1 at $18, 1 at $14, 1 at $13, 46 at $12 each, 1 at $10, 1 at $9, 2 at $7 each, 6 at $6 each, 1 at $5, 2 at $1 each, 1 at $3, and at $1\n\n14 Miscellaneous Stores\n\n2,000\n\n2,000\n\n15 Packing Expenses\n\n20,000\n\n29,000\n\n16 Purchase of Raw Opium, etc.\n\n600,000\n\n550,000\n\n1,588\n\n1,879\n\nDo,\n\nSunday and Holiday Work Allowances to 1 at $84, 9 at $17 each, and 124 at $9 each\n\n17 Rent of Quarters for Staff\n\n1,200\n\n1,900\n\n1,303\n\n1,303\n\n18 Repairs and Renewals\n\n1,000\n\n1,000\n\n2\n\n2\n\nCoolies, at $132 each\n\nDo.,\n\n264\n\n264\n\nRent Allowances, at $48 each\n\n96\n\n96\n\ni Do.,\n\nSunday and Holiday Work Allowances, at $9 each\n\n19 Transport,\n\n2,000\n\n2,000\n\n18\n\n18\n\n20 Revenue Reward Fund\n\n3,000\n\n5,000\n\n16\n\n16\n\nMail Bag Coolies, at $132 each\n\n2,112\n\n2,112\n\nDo..\n\n1\n\n1\n\n1\n\n1\n\nDo.,\n\nCarpenter, ($288 to $320 by $12 annually)\n\n| Painter, ($300 to $360 by $12 annually).\n\nRent Allowances to 10 at $48 each and 6 at $24 each. Sunday and Holiday Allowances, at $9 each\n\n21 Stationery, etc.\n\n300\n\n300\n\n624\n\n624\n\nil ork\n\n22 Transport\n\n2,000\n\n2,000\n\n114\n\n144\n\n320\n\n320\n\n23 Uniforms for Revenue Officers and Messengers\n\n8,500\n\n8,500\n\n331\n\n343\n\nTotal Personal Emoluments\n\nSPECIAL EXPENDITURE.\n\n24 Platform Scale for Tobacco\n\n183,120\n\n214,341\n\nPurchase of Motor Car\n\n(1) Number of Postal Clerks reduced by two to fill promotion from upper classes.\n\n(2) One new post.\n\nTotal Imports and Exports Department\n\n(1) Considered sufficient.\n\n(2) Previous provision insufficient.\n\n3,000\n\n805,170\n\n(3) Non recurrent.\n\n800\n\n753,746\n\n23\n\n107\n\nPage 90\n\nPage 91",
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        "content_text": "## Head 11.-POST OFFICE AND WIRELESS\n\n### POST OFFICE,—Continued.\n\n|          | Approved Estimate, 1929 | Estimate, 1930 |\n|----------|------------------------|------------------|\n|          | $                      | $                |\n\n### PERSONAL EMOLUMENTS,-Continued.\n\n#### Details of the foregoing,—Continued.\n\n**(B)-WIRELESS**\n\n1. Personal Emoluments\n   - Brought forward: 108,795, 113,663\n\nOther Charges.\n\n| NUMBERS | 1929 | 1930 |\n|---------|------|------|\n|         |      |      |\n\n- Class V Postal Clerks, $900 to $1,150 by $50 annually: 12, 16\n- Shroff's Sunday and Holiday Work Allowances: 4, 4\n- Class VI Postal Clerks, $430 to $850 by $50 annually: 36, 49\n- Shroffs Sunday and Holiday Work Allowances to 11 at $72 each and 1 at $134: 13, -\n- Learners: -, 5 at $360 each and 1 at $600\n\n2. Cleansing Materials, Utensils and Washing: 250, 500\n3. Incidental Expenses: 1,100, -\n4. Uniforms....: 15,000, 16,338\n5. Rent of Offices for radiotelegraphs: 16,821, -\n\n### SPECIAL EXPENDITURE.\n\n| (1) | (2) | (3) |\n|-----|-----|-----|\n| 926 |     |     |\n\n- Card Index..........................: 900, (2)\n- Total (B) Wireless: 120,708, 1,879\n- Sunday and Holiday Work Allowances at $36 each: (5), (6), 180, (8)\n- Inspector of Postmen, ($2,200 to $2,800 by $150 annually): 6,500, (3)\n- Sunday and Holiday Work Allowance to Clerical Staff and Launch Officers: -, 2,754\n\n### Details of the Foregoing.\n\n#### PERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.\n\n**(B)-WIRELESS**\n\n| NUMBERS | 1929 | 1930 |\n|---------|------|------|\n|         |      |      |\n\n- Launch Officers, ($1,300 to $1,750 by $50 annually): 4, 4\n- Sunday and Holiday Work Allowance: 108, -\n- Hend Postman, ($400 to $500 by $10 annually): 1, 1\n- Do., Sunday and Holiday Work Allowance: 525, 11\n- Postmen, 1st Class, ($300 to $372 by $12 annually): 11, 11\n- Do., Rent Allowances at $48 each: 528, 528\n- Traffic Superintendent, (£400 to £480 by £20 annually): 5,040, -\n- Postmen, 2nd Class, at $228 each: 17, (3)\n- Assistant Traffic Superintendent, (£260 to £300 by £10 annually): 3,807, 3,844\n- Do., Rent Allowances to 50 at $48 each, and 7 at $24 each: 3,276, -\n- Class II Telegraphists, ($2,200 to $2,800 by $150 annually): -, 70\n- Do., Good Conduct Allowances to 24 at $36 each, 1 at $35, 1 at $34, 1 at $31, 1 at $27, 4 at $24 each, 1 at $21, 2 at $16 each, 18 at $15 each, 3 at $14 each, 14 at $12 each, 2 at $9 each, 2 at $8 each, 2 at $7 each, 4 at $6 each, 1 at $5, 1 at $4, 7 at $3 each and 3 at $1 each: 63, 67\n- Do., Sunday and Holiday Work Allowances to 1 at $34, 9 at $17 each, and 124 at $9 each: 98, 70\n- Class III Telegraphists, ($1,600 to $2,100 by $100 annually): 15,960, 15,960\n- Personal Allowance to 2 at $100 each: -, 200\n- Class IV Telegraphists, ($1,200 to $1,500 by $75 annually): 11,340, 12,060\n- Class V Telegraphists, ($900 to $1,150 by $50 annually): 19,633, 1,879\n- Class VI Telegraphists, ($450 to $850 by $50 annually): 34,351, 1,718\n- Coolies, at $132 each: 1,803, 2,040\n- Field Allowances to Telegraphists: 2, 2\n- Do., Rent Allowances, at $48 each: 1, 2\n- Class II Clerk, ($2,200 to $2,800 by $150 annually): 2,240, 2,500\n- Do., Sunday and Holiday Work Allowances, at $9 each: 264, 264\n- Class IV Clerk, ($1,200 to $1,500 by $75 annually): 96, 96\n- Class V Clerks, ($900 to $1,150 by $50 annually): 1,256, -\n- Class VI Clerks and Shroffs, ($450 to $950 by $50 annually): 3,600, (3)\n- Do., Rent Allowances to 10 at $48 each and 6 at $24 each: 2,112, 2,112\n- Mail Bag Coolies, at $132 each: 2,304, (6)\n- Messenger, 1st Class: 624, 624\n- Do., Sunday and Holiday Work Allowances, at $9 each: 228, (1)\n- Messengers, 2nd Class at $150 each: 13, 144\n- Messengers, 3rd Class, at $132 each: 2,028, (1)\n- Sunday and Holiday Work Allowances to Postmen and Coolies: 1,188, (4)\n- Messengers, Rent Allowances to 28 at $48 each: 1,104, 1,550\n- Messengers, Good Conduct Allowances to 1 at $12 and at $6: -, 18\n- Carpenter, ($288 to $320 by $12 annually): 320, 320\n- Painter, ($300 to $360 by $12 annually): 343, 355\n- Sunday and holiday work Allowances: 2,000, (1)\n\nTotal Personal Emoluments: 102,958, 214,341, 221,325\n\n(1) Transferred from Public Works Department. \n(2) Considered necessary. \n(3) Former designation \"Telegraph Sub-Engineer.\" \n(4) New scale of salary. \n(5) Former designation \"Senior Wireless Operator.\" \n(6) Stipulated increments. \n(7) Former designation \"Traffic Supervisors.\" \n(8) Formerly 1; 1 new post. \n(9) Formerly 13; 1 new post. \n(10) Formerly 30; 6 new posts. \n(11) Formerly 16; 5 new posts. \n(12) Former designation \"Class II Telegraphist.\" \n(13) Transferred from Junior Clerical Service. \n(14) New post. \n(15) 2 transferred from \"Junior Clerical Service\": 2 new posts. \n(16) Formerly 8; 5 new posts. \n(17) Formerly 8 coolies at 60 cents per diem; 4 new posts. \n(18) Previous vote. $1,500, considered insufficient.\n\n(1) Stipulated increments. \n(2) New appointments. \n(3) Allowances consolidated. \nNumber of Postal Clerks reduced by one to fill promotions in upper classes. \n(5) One new post. \n(6) Formerly \"Probationer Sorters\". \n(7) Transferred to Class II Postal Clerks. \n(8) Four additional Postmen.",
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        "content_text": "## 11.---POST OFFICE\n\n71. The Post Master General, a Cadet Officer, is dealt with under the Cadet Service.\n\n72. The Accountant, a Special Appointment under the Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff, has been recommended for a scale of £820 to £1,050 by 7 annual increments of £30 and 1 of £20.\n\n73. For the Superintendent of Mails we recommend a salary of £600 rising by £25 annually to £700. The Assistant Superintendents of Mails are, at present, in four grades. We recommend the following salaries:\n| Grade | Salary Scale |\n| --- | --- |\n| (i) | £460 to £560 by £20 annually |\n| (ii) and (iii) | $4,000 to $5,000 by $200 annually |\n| (iv) | £250 to £445 by 6 annual increments of £15, 2 of £30 and 3 of £15 |\n\n74. For the Postal Clerks we recommend the same scales as for the Junior Clerical Service.\n| Class | Salary Scale |\n| --- | --- |\n| Class I | $3,500 to $4,500 by $200 annually |\n| Class II | $2,700 to $3,300 by $150 annually |\n| Class III | $1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually |\n| Special Class | $1,200 to $2,400 by $100 annually with an Efficiency Bar at $1,800 |\n| Class IV | $1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually |\n| Class V | $1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually |\n| Class VI | $480 to $1,050 by annual increments one of $60, one of $160, three of $50 and two of $100 |\n| Probationer Sorters | $420 and $700 |\n\n75. For the Inspector of Postmen we recommend a salary of $2,700, rising by $150 annually to $3,300, and for Launch Officers $1,550 to $2,100 by $50 annually. The Head Postman should receive $475 to $600 by $25 annually, Postmen 1st Class, $350 to $450 by $20 annually. Postmen 2nd Class, $276 to $348 by $12 annually, and Postmen 3rd Class, $204 to $264 by $12 annually. The Coolies and Mail Bag Coolies should receive $156 to $204 by $12 after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years. For the Carpenter we recommend a scale of $300 to $360 and for the Painter $324 to $384, by $12 annually in both cases.\n\n## Previous Sections\n\n68. For the Demarcators we recommend a scale of $300 rising by $20 annually to $500. The Forestry Demarcator in the Northern District was recently absorbed in the higher class of Demarcators; we recommend that this should also be done in the Southern District.\n\n69. In the District Office, North, the Office Attendant should receive $192 to $210, the Messengers and Coolies $156 to $204, and the Latrine Attendants $192 to $240, by $12 after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years in each case.\n\n70. In the District Office, South, the Notice Server should be on a scale of $156 to $204, the Office Attendant $192 to $240, and the Messenger and Caretaker $156 to $204, by $12 after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years in each case.\n\n67 is missing, but there is a mention of \"Bailiff in the Public Works Department\" which seems to be related to the missing number.\n\n## Bailiff and Related Staff\n\nBailiff in the Public Works Department. The work is specialised and there is little prospect of promotion within this particular branch of the service. For the Land Bailiffs we recommend a scale of £320 rising to £420 by 5 annual increments of £10, 2 of £20 and 1 further increment of £10.",
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        "content_text": "# \n34 \n\nJ \n\nWe have not seen our way to include Charge Allowances in the scales of salaries we have recommended because the increase would make the salaries unduly large; and have therefore left them to be drawn, if Government permits, by those to whom they are at present payable. But we strongly recommend that they should cease on promotion, transfer, or retirement, and that they should not be drawn by persons who are acting for officers now entitled to Charge Allowances.\n\n## (c) Overtime Allowances\n\n165. General Order No. `108(1)` makes the following provision regarding Overseers in the Public Works Department (including Inspectors and Senior Inspectors of Works).\n\n103 (1) Sunday and Holiday overtime allowances are payable to Overseers in the Public Works Department in cases of emergency at the rate of $8 a day, provided that the work is authorised to be done on these days by the Executive Engineer in Charge. No payment will be made in respect of occasional visits to works on such days nor in any case in which less than half a day's work is involved.\n\n166. Government has also approved the payment of Sunday and Holiday Work Allowances in the following cases :-\n\n| Department | Officers | Allowance |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Post Office | Superintendent of Mails, Assistant Superintendents of Mails, Postal Clerks Classes I-IV, Postal Clerks Class V, Postal Clerks Class VI, Probationer Sorters, Inspector of Postmen, Launch Officers, Head Postman, Postmen, Coolies, Mail Bag Coolies, Launch Crew (G.P.O. I and II) | $3, $2.5, 25 cents |\n| Harbour Office | Clerks | same rates as Post Office, but full allowance for 2 hours duty |\n| Imports & Exports Department | Clerks | same rates as Post Office, for 4 hours duty from a.m. to 12 noon |\n| Medical Department | Clerks, Dispensers | $5 to $10 a month for clerks, $2 for each day's work on Sundays or holidays for Dispensers |\n| Public Works Department | Telegraphists, Wireless Operators, Messengers, Dredger Master and Crew | roughly equivalent to one day's pay |\n| Kowloon Canton Railway | 2 clerks, 2 shroffs | same rates as Post Office, for attending on alternate Sundays and Holidays |\n\n167. With regard to Overtime Allowances generally, we desire to emphasize that certain employment, such as in the Police Force, Imports and Exports Department, Prisons Department, Fire Brigade, Hospitals, Railway, etc., involves a full seven-day week. There can be no closing down on any particular day either on Sundays or on Holidays, and arrangements should therefore, in our opinion, be made for allowing time off duty in turn rather than for the grant of overtime allowances.\n\n168. We consider further that normally no Overtime Allowances should be paid to Senior Officers. The remuneration of public officers is fixed on the assumption that their whole time is at the disposal of the Government (Colonial Regulation No. `28`), and we anticipate that no Senior Officer would claim extra payment for periods spent in furtherance of the public interest beyond the strict limits of office hours.\n\n169. While Subordinate Officers are included, equally with Senior Officers, under the Colonial Regulation mentioned above, we consider that it is only fair that some compensation should be given to them when they are required regularly to give up periods, which might be devoted to leisure, for the convenience of the public.\n\nWe consider that no payment should be made for attendance on Saturday afternoons, but for Sundays and Holidays, we are of the opinion that allowances similar to those now granted in the Post Office should be paid.\n\n170. These allowances are at present calculated roughly according to the salary limits of the officers concerned, and we consider that they should be placed definitely on this basis. We consider further that, in every case, a full period of 4 hours on duty should be required before the full allowance is payable; half rates only being granted if less than 4 hours' work is required.\n\nWe suggest that these allowances should, in addition to those mentioned above, be paid in all other departments where attendance is required regularly on Sundays and Holidays, such as, for example, in the Magistracies which are exempted from the provisions of the Holidays Ordinance on certain days.\n\nThey might similarly be granted on special occasions where the work is authorised to be done on these days by an executive officer.\n\n171. We recommend therefore that all orders and rules dealing with Overtime be repealed, subject to the recommendations contained in paragraphs 172 and 173 infra., and that in future Sunday and Holiday Work Allowances be granted to officers drawing salaries detailed below in accordance with the following scale :-\n\n| Salary | Allowance |\n| --- | --- |\n| Exceeding £600 or $6,000 per annum | $1 |\n| £450 or $4,500 and not exceeding £600 or $6,000 | 50 cents |\n| Not exceeding £150 or $1,500 | 25 cents |\n| $1,100 | $1 |\n| $450 | 50 cents |\n| $360 | 25 cents |\n| Not exceeding $300 | 25 cents |\n\n172. Other Overtime Allowances are granted as follows:— \n\n(i) Overtime Allowances are also paid to Gardeners and Foresters in the Botanical & Forestry Department, at rates based on their substantive salaries plus good conduct allowances, for overtime beyond the normal day and for work on Sundays and Holidays.\n\nWe can find no justification for payment for overtime to this class of employee who must expect additional pressure of work at certain times, with slackness at others, due to the weather. We consider that overtime should be paid, on the same basis as in the case of Sunday and Holiday Work Allowances, only if these employees are called out for night work such as beating out forest fires, with the exception, of course, of Forest Guards for whom night patrols form part of their regular duty. We consider, also, that a call for work at night should entitle the employee to the full allowance whether the time on duty is long or short.\n\n35 \n330",
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        "content_text": "155\n\n12\n\nnow £320 - £360\n\nBailiff in the Public Works Department. The work is specialised and there is little prospect of promotion within this particular branch of the service. For the Land Bailiffs we recommend a scale of £320 rising to £420 by 5 annual increments of £10, 2 of £20 and 1 further increment of £10.\n\n68. For the Demarcators we recommend a scale of $300 rising by $20 annually to $500. The Forestry Demarcator in the Northern District was recently absorbed in the higher class of Demarcators; we recommend that this should also be done in the Southern District.\n\n69. In the District Office, North, the Office Attendant should receive $192 to $240, the Messengers and Coolies $156 to $204, and the Latrine Attendants $192 to $240, by $12 after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years in each case.\n\n70. In the District Office, South, the Notice Server should be on a scale of $156 to $204, the Office Attendant $192 to $240, and the Messenger and Caretaker $156 to $204, by $12 after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years in each case.\n\n11.--POST OFFICE.\n\n4750-1450\n\nService.\n\n71. The Post Master General, a Cadet Officer, is dealt with under the Cadet Service.\n\n72. The Accountant, a Special Appointment under the Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff, has been recommended for a scale of £820 to £1,050 by 7 annual increments of £30 and 1 of £20.\n\nnow £500-600\n\n73. For the Superintendent of Mails we recommend a salary of £600 rising by £25 annually to £700.\n\nThe Assistant Superintendents of Mails are, at present, in four grades. We recommend the following salaries :-\n\n(i) £460 to £560 by £20 annually;\n\n(ii) and (iii) $4,000 to $5,000 by $200 annually;\n\n(iv) £250 to £445 by 6 annual increments of £15, 2 of £30 and 3 of £15.\n\n74. For the Postal Clerks we recommend the same scales as for the Junior Clerical Service.\n\nClass I. $3,500 to $4,500 by $200 annually;\n\nClass II. $2,700 to $3,300 by $150 annually;\n\nClass III $1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually;\n\nSpecial Class $1,200 to $2,400 by $100 annually with an Efficiency Bar at $1,800;\n\nClass IV. $1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually;\n\nClass V. $1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually;\n\nClass VI. $480 to $1,050 by annual increments one of $60, one of $160, three of $50 and two of $100, with Probationer Sorters at $420 and $700.\n\n75. For the Inspector of Postmen we recommend a salary of $2,700, rising by $150 annually to $3,300, and for Launch Officers $1,550 to $2,100 by $50 annually.\n\nThe Head Postman should receive $475 to $600 by $25 annually, Postmen 1st Class, $350 to $450 by $20 annually. Postmen 2nd Class, $276 to $348 by $12 annually, and Postmen 3rd Class, $204 to $264 by $12 annually.\n\nThe Coolies and Mail Bag Coolies should receive $156 to $204 by $12 after 3, 6, 9 and 12 years.\n\nFor the Carpenter we recommend a scale of $300 to $360 and for the Painter $324 to $384, by $12 annually in both cases.\n\n \n\nPage 150\n\nPage 151",
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        "content_text": "34\n\nWe have not seen our way to include Charge Allowances in the scales of salaries we have recommended because the increase would make the salaries unduly large; and have therefore left them to be drawn, if Government permits, by those to whom they are at present payable. But we strongly recommend that they should cease on promotion, transfer, or retirement, and that they should not be drawn by persons who are acting for officers now entitled to Charge Allowances.\n\n(c) Overtime Allowances.\n\n165. General Order No. 103 (1) makes the following provision regarding Overseers in the Public Works Department (including Inspectors and Senior Inspectors of Works).\n\n108 (1) Sunday and Holiday overtime allowances are payable to Overseers in the Public Works Department in cases of emergency at the rate of $8 a day, provided that the work is authorised to be done on these days by the Executive Engineer in Charge. No payment will be made in respect of occasional visits to works on such days nor in any case in which less than half a day's work is involved\".\n\n166. Government has also approved the payment of Sunday and Holiday Work Allowances in the following cases :-\n\n(i) Post Office :-For 4 hours work on Sundays and Holidays, with half rates if under 4 hours, to the following officers :—\n\n  \n    Superintendent of Mails\n    $15\n  \n  \n    Assistant Superintendents of Mails\n    $5\n  \n  \n    Postal Clerks Classes I-IV\n    $3\n  \n  \n    Postal Clerks Class V\n    $3\n  \n  \n    Postal Clerks Class VI\n    25 cents\n  \n  \n    Probationer Sorters\n    \n  \n  \n    Inspector of Postmen\n    \n  \n  \n    Launch Officers\n    \n  \n  \n    Head Postman\n    \n  \n  \n    Postmen\n    \n  \n  \n    Coolies\n    \n  \n  \n    Mail Bag Coolies\n    \n  \n  \n    Launch Crew (G.P.O. I and II)\n    \n  \n\n(ii) Harbour Office:-At the same rates as in (i) to clerks who are required to attend on Sundays and Holidays with this difference, however, that the full allowance is paid for 2 hours duty and half rate if less than 2 hours.\n\n(iii) Imports & Exports Department:-Also at the same rates as in (i) for clerks in attendance on Holidays but in this case, we understand, the duty performed extends for 3 hours, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.\n\n(iv) Medical Department :-Clerks required to attend on Saturday afternoons, Sundays and Holidays are given allowances of $5 to $10 a month, the rate being based as in the Post Office on their class in the Junior Clerical Service. Dispensers are also granted $2 for each day's work on Sundays or holidays.\n\n(v) Public Works Department: Allowances at rates roughly equivalent to one day's pay, and in practice the same allowances as in the Post Office, are paid to Telegraphists, Wireless Operators, and Messengers delivering Wireless messages who are required to perform duty on Sundays and Holidays, and to the Dredger Master and Crew when called out for duty on these days.\n\n(vi) Kowloon Canton Railway: Allowances at the same rates as in the Post Office are given to 2 clerks and 2 shroffs who attend on alternate Sundays and Holidays. The clerks check the returns of tickets by each train which must be done daily and the shroffs meet the train bringing in cash from outstations at 9 a.m. in the morning and again in the evening.\n\n35\n\n--\n\n167. With regard to Overtime Allowances generally we desire to emphasize that certain employment, such as in the Police Force, Imports and Exports Department, Prisons Department, Fire Brigade, Hospitals, Railway, etc., involves a full seven day week. There can be no closing down on any particular day either on Sundays or on Holidays and arrangements should therefore, in our opinion, be made for allowing time off duty in turn rather than for the grant of overtime allowances.\n\n168. We consider further that normally no Overtime Allowances should be paid to Senior Officers. The remuneration of public officers is fixed on the assumption that their whole time is at the disposal of the Government (Colonial Regulation No. 28), and we anticipate that no Senior Officer would claim extra payment for periods spent in furtherance of the public interest beyond the strict limits of office hours.\n\n169. While Subordinate Officers are included, equally with Senior Officers, under the Colonial Regulation mentioned above, we consider that it is only fair that some compensation should be given to them when they are required regularly to give up periods, which might be devoted to leisure, for the convenience of the public.\n\nWe consider that no payment should be made for attendance on Saturday afternoons, but for Sundays and Holidays we are of the opinion that allowances similar to those now granted in the Post Office should be paid.\n\n170. These allowances are at present calculated roughly according to the salary limits of the officers concerned, and we consider that they should be placed definitely on this basis. We consider further that, in every case, a full period of 4 hours on duty should be required before the full allowance is payable; half rates only being granted if less than 4 hours work is required.\n\nWe suggest that these allowances should, in addition to those mentioned above, be paid in all other departments where attendance is required regularly on Sundays and Holidays, such as, for example, in the Magistracies which are exempted from the provisions of the Holidays Ordinance on certain days.\n\nThey might similarly be granted on special occasions where the work is authorised to be done on these days by an executive officer.\n\n171. We recommend therefore that all orders and rules dealing with Overtime be repealed, subject to the recommendations contained in paragraphs 172 and 173 infra, and that in future Sunday and Holiday Work Allowances be granted to officers drawing salaries detailed below in accordance with the following scale :--\n\n  \n    Salary\n    Allowance\n  \n  \n    Exceeding £600 or $6,000 per annum\n    $10\n  \n  \n    £450 or $4,500 and not exceeding £600 or $6,000\n    $5\n  \n  \n    £150 or $1,500 and not exceeding £450 or $4,500\n    $3\n  \n  \n    Not exceeding £150 or $1,500\n    $2\n  \n  \n    $1,100\n    $1\n  \n  \n    $450\n    50 cents\n  \n  \n    $360\n    25 cents\n  \n\n172. Other Overtime Allowances are granted as follows:-\n\n(i) Overtime Allowances are also paid to Gardeners and Foresters in the Botanical & Forestry Department, at rates based on their substantive salaries plus good conduct allowances, for overtime beyond the normal day and for work on Sundays and Holidays.\n\nWe can find no justification for payment for overtime to this class of employee who must expect additional pressure of work at certain times, with slackness at others, due to the weather. We consider that overtime should be paid, on the same basis as in the case of Sunday and Holiday Work Allowances, only if these employees are called out for night work such as beating out forest fires, with the exception, of course, of Forest Guards for whom night patrols form part of their regular duty. We consider, also, that a call for work at night should entitle the employee to the full allowance whether the time on duty is long or short.\n\n178",
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        "content_text": "153\n\n24\n\nHead 11. POST OFFICE AND WIRELESS\n\n(B)—WIRELESS.\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\nOther Charges\n\n2 Cleansing Materials, Utensils and Washing\n\n3 Incidental Expenses\n\n4 Uniforms.............\n\n5 Rent of Offices for radiotelegraphs\n\nSPECIAL EXPENDITURE.\n\n6 Card Index......\n\nApproved Estimate, 1930.\n\nEstimate, 1931.\n\n102,958\n\n132,911\n\n250\n\n250\n\n500\n\n500\n\n1,100\n\n1,300\n\n15,000\n\n15,000\n\n(2)\n\n900\n\n(3)\n\nTotal (B) Wireless\n\n120,708\n\n149,961\n\nDetails of the Foregoing.\n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.\n\n(B) — WIRELESS.\n\nNUMBERS.\n\n} \n\n1930 1931\n\n1\n\nTraffic Superintendent, (£475 to £575 by £20 annually).\n\n5,040\n\n7,725\n\nAssistant Traffic Superintendent, (£310 to £350 by £10 annually)..........\n\n3,276\n\n4,700\n\n(4) (5)\n\n3\n\nClass II Telegraphists, ($2,700 to $3,300 by $150 annually)\n\n7,800\n\n9,388\n\nDo.\n\nPersonal Allowance to 2 at $100 each.\n\nClass III Telegraphists, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually)\n\n200\n\n(6)\n\n3,683\n\n3,950\n\n1\n\n14\n\n14\n\nClass IV Telegraphists, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually).........\n\n19,633\n\n24,224\n\n36\n\nClass V Telegraphists, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually)\n\n34,351\n\n45,613\n\n20\n\n20\n\nClass VI Telegraphists, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100)\n\n10,509\n\n12,589\n\nField Allowances to Telegraphists..\n\n2,240\n\n2,500\n\n(1)\n\n4\n\n13\n\n13\n\nClass II Clerk, ($2,700 to $3,300 by $150 annually).\n\nClass IV Clerk, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually).\n\nClass V Clerks, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $50 annually)......\n\nClass VI Clerks and Shroff's, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100)\n\nRadio-postman Class II, ($276 to $348 by $12 annually)\n\nRadio-postmen Class III, at ($204 to $264 by $12 annually)\n\n2,500\n\n3,150\n\n1,256\n\n1,600\n\n3,600\n\n4,933\n\n2,304\n\n2,734\n\n(4) (5)\n\n228\n\n820\n\nDo., \n\nRent Allowances to 14 at $48 each\n\n2,028\n\n2,947\n\n1,104\n\n672\n\n9\n\nCoolies, ($156 to $201 by $12 triennially).\n\nDo., Rent Allowances at $48 each\n\nDo., Good Conduct Allowances\n\nSunday and holiday work Allowances\n\nTotal Personal Emoluments\n\n1,188\n\n1,404\n\n432\n\n18\n\n2,000\n\n...\n\n4,000\n\n102,958\n\n(6)\n\n132,911\n\n(1) Considered necessary.\n\n(2) This entry inadvertently appeared twice in 1930 Estimates See page 77 footnote (5) Head 29 P.W.D.\n\n(3) Non-recurrent,\n\n(4) Now scale.\n\n(5) Stipulated increments,\n\n(6) Allowances abolished.\n\nSUMMARY\n\n1930.\n\n1931.\n\nNo.\n\nNo.\n\nOthers Charges\n\nSpecial Expenditure\n\nPersonal Emoluments (Head 11B)\n\n....\n\n16,850\n\n900\n\n102,958\n\n17,050\n\n...\n\n132,911\n\n19\n\n13\n\nCadet Officers (see Head 2)... S. C. & A. Stuff (see App. I).....\n\nJ. C. Staff (see App. II)\n\nTotal\n\n120,708\n\n149,961",
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        "content_text": "## \n26. 3.35\n\n2\n\nCid.\n\n(1) Burney E. has returned, like interview.\n\n(2) Barney E. who Marghers.\n\n28-3-35\n\nJud. asgrenser account.\n\n1. Gent will not be back till 14th April. Perhaps you would like to see Mr. B.\n\n29/3/35\n\nAr Mathew will not be back till 3rd April. Letter to Mr B. giving dates of return and suggesting he should await their return.\n\n**RESTRICTED**\n\n29/3/35\n\n2 recd. 2. A letter from Mas Gent and Mayhew on Saturday. My letter could protest ice...\n\n4/3/35\n\nDraft hum... 11 am... neered right... Lausd to Burney 217\n\n2. 4-35.",
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        "content_text": "## B. Educ.\n\n(3) ed said go with amount 5 Burney E. recoverable 29. 3. 35 for £269-16-5 in connection with M Barney's visit.\n\nRef (1) cancels visit as he el. 6 Sa 118 27. 2 35 Ref (14) m await with interest 33849/34- shall Mn Barney's requests B. Educ be thanked for lean this affecer Mm Mayhew Mn Charnaud scuel fule was li be sent you R83 3.4.35\n\nSeema 7 presume 6 will be communicatul tB.fr. 7 shall be glach & sec 17 Burning when he in wall \n\n...69\n\nIt will or sum 17 Barney is again preventent from coming to fundo. I am in the receipt of his expat. The repub- (17.9 attached) will obviously have to be printed some time and it would be saving time if it could be printed at once instead of having it at first. If any \"edit\" is required it can be done in the later stage. A few of the sheets have some Watt siden - but the ravens side, which will be Gopard before it is sent to Pren.\n\n7th NuG might be communicated Emut B.fr. Art 17ght 12-4",
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        "content_text": "No action has been taken in (2), (+) cv (6). 4 (4). PL. voll 13 in `33849`. \n\n? Copy with sung oing encl. 10 C.A. BU & ask them to pay £209.16.5 from N.K. functs. Send copy to Filter C.A. to B.E. B.E. by my letter (4) to CH. to N.K. RJ ny lux in Soohy. (2). \n\nThe account enclosed is reasonable. The subsistence allowance is ... per day in `338479`. But we cannot pay the balance until we know how much was drawn by N.K. \n\n? Copy 2 s avel. 10 C.A., request Barney to find out how much was drawn together with the balance when they pay the Shen zваян The Louvranmin 4 Burny have ascertained from the N.K. drawn. But how much was quite big St. Barney N.K. And \n\n80 in 10 inform the Bunny of (2). And send copy (2) and seller to C.A. 18th. Inf. they 14 Com `33549`. (6)? Substance lot. E., including para 3!, informing Fw. If. app). receive. Then manis. for country Jeth. Bourney's Repent. I",
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        "content_text": "## CESTROYED UNDER STATUTE\n\n$14.35\n\nE. Burney sends craft. Repent fa cigpeng.\n\n18 APR 1935\n\n2 E. Burney - 2 Aurd!\nTo 6.A.- M/C(4) and end. Mi ouj.\n\n25 APR 1935\n\n5.3.35 ef actor. aela. In Burney Sum $330 were fer personal ba advanced expenses. deduced from hencravia.\n\nThis with fun purpose Z docking ? Jup. 10 CM. with (11).\n\n1.8 Cu Gant. 2914/35 1 2 Bd. Edven- w/c(11) - ww. endl. -B12. b. . \n11 Tob.A. - W/C.(12) -B.c. A/I- H. 15.30 4. Kong-155 ufc. 2+ andl., 4 & No. 11) Verde.\n\n30 APR 1935\n= 1 MAY 1935",
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        "content_text": "# Odlin \n\n## (6) \n\nMr. Gent, \n\nHerewith Mr. Burney's revised report, which you will remember he undertook to re-consider in the light of a talk he had with us. \n\nIt would obviously be impossible now to ask him to make any further revision and accordingly I have only glanced at it here and there. As he had no opportunity of speaking at the Advisory Committee meeting yesterday, the question of further consideration of the report does not seem to arise at this stage. \n\nI understand that the intention now is to send out one copy of the report to the Hong Kong Government and to refer the report as a whole simultaneously to the Advisory Committee. The next meeting of the Committee is on 20th June and members would, I know, like to have copies of the report as long as possible before the meeting as its perusal will take some time. The sooner, therefore, it can be sent for roneo-ing, or such reproduction as you think most convenient, the better. The consent of the Chairman of the Advisory Committee to its being placed before the Committee will, of course, be required but this might perhaps be done after other arrangements have been made, since it may safely be assumed that that consent will be given. \n\nThe report has not been signed. Mr. Burney said that he would send a covering letter and possibly has sent it to you. I suggest that he might be asked to sign two of the copies which are now to be made, one for the Hong Kong Government and one for record in the C.O. \n\nMeanwhile, as he handed the report in person to me, we can safely assume that it is his work.\n\nArthur May \n17.5.35.",
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        "content_text": "# Mr Bunny's Report\n\n1. Though not, I suppose, for publication in the country.\n\nAt the moment, only one revised copy is available, and it will have to be reproduced for circulation.\n\nWe might combine these operations by asking IHK whether CA should not be asked to print at least that number of copies, but the whole thing will have to be reproduced.\n\nI think we had better have copies made for CDAC and ACEC for submission to the Bunny Committee.\n\nThe Committee will need 35 copies.\n\nThis is a Report to the Sex Hygiene Committee about printing.\n\nThere is a Spanish translation for transmission retention here, $55, and we can decide here whether to print 20 copies or more.\n\nNo copies of Mr. Burney's Report to Koper are available as of 20.5.35.",
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        "content_text": "\"If it were done, I think it better to print it in whole as a document.\n\nIt is not too long & can be conveniently handled as a bound document.\n\nWhen I've have proofs, I will send a final copy & Mr Bunny's requisition, with any points to be corrected in it to Lin for sign & return one copy.\n\n20/5\n\nAs the costs are borne by the Borish fund, I suggest that the Division Committee on Education should pay, or share the cost.\n\nThe report is restricted, it hardly seems right to expect the funds to be used for something that is not open.\n\nEither way, I think it should be bound properly.\" \n\n## appears to be missing, however the text does not seem to be a direct continuation of the initial text. The following is the reformatted version of the given text.\n\n\"If it were done, \nShto printed \nthink it \nA as \nC.O. papu \nthe cige met from dus finnes, \nchange \nIn in whole \nIt is \nNi bu \nbetter to brint it \nratum too long & \nbe conveniently handlich es \na Rones' d \nwas \ndocument. \nintention to point it.) \nWhen \nI've have ports \nI AM \nSend a fixes & \nMr Bunny requiction, \nLin \nsign & return one why \nwith \nany points to be corrected in \nimal point. \nMeat. \n20/5- \nis \n\nAs the costs ur Burwis init \n1024 Колка кога \nhas been bind \nS \nfundo, culisest in its duties \nthe report is restricted, it hardly \nJesus \nrique to expect \n(ie Borish fund) \nis 20. \nVSi \nto tear in cosa \nEither \nI Brucking, I suggest that the itong \nCons \nwook on the funds of the \nDivision Committer on Education should \npay, or share The Coat, \nHill/molian\" \n\nRe-formatted to:\n\"If it were done, Shto printed think it A as C.O. papu the cige met from dus finnes, change In in whole It is Ni bu better to brint it ratum too long & be conveniently handlich es a Rones' d was document. intention to point it.) \nWhen I've have ports I AM Send a fixes & Mr Bunny requiction, Lin sign & return one why with any points to be corrected in imal point. Meat. 20/5- is\n\nAs the costs ur Burwis init 1024 ... has been bind S fundo, culisest in its duties the report is restricted, it hardly Jesus rique to expect (ie Borish fund) is 20. VSi to tear in cosa Either I Brucking, I suggest that the itong Cons wook on the funds of the Division Committer on Education should pay, or share The Coat, Hill/molian\n\nRevised to:\n\"If it were done, ... think it better to print it in whole as a document. It is not too long & be conveniently handled as a ... document. \nWhen I've have proofs, I will Send a final copy & Mr Bunny's requisition, Lin sign & return one copy with any points to be corrected in it. \n20/5\n\nAs the costs are borne by ...(ie Borish fund), I suggest that the Division Committee on Education should pay, or share the cost. \nthe report is restricted, it hardly seems right to expect ...(ie Borish fund) to be used for something that is not open. Either I ... suggest that the ... Committee on Education should pay, or share The cost.",
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        "content_text": "I have discussed with Ir Gent. The cost of printing will not be great, and in view of the objections raised to printing at C.O. expense, we can charge it to H.K. funds as part of the legitimate expenses of Ir Burney's visit.\n\nPrint with all reasonable expedition, cost to be met by C.A. from H.K. funds, final proofs to be sent to Mr Burney for signature. Prints to be available for Advisory Committee as soon as possible.\n\n21.5.35\n\n10\n\nI proceed with the practice laid down for Blackishment Notice dated 14/2/34 with regard to arrangements for printing on behalf of Col. Goo[k]s. Burney's report should be printed by arrangement, with the C. agt. I submit a draft, marked urgent, of letter to the C. agt asking them to arrange accordingly, as a way to forward 2 final proofs to The Co. for Burney's signature before copies are finally struck off.\n\nI will be glad if a foolscap size print is arranged in accordance with the specification in the day's other matter on 125 copies & final copies have been left blank.\n\nWell pro[of]...\n\n23/5/35\n\nPage 10\nPage 11",
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        "content_text": "## \n28/6 \n\n2216. 162. L.A. Wy Report in suspense: -bars. \n\nAY_19:5 \n\n17 30 H. Kong - 195 (070, 16) 1/1 - 27 MAY 1935 \n\n?ban action now \n\non \n\n6. (Re. 18/4). \n\nMeasures taken \n\nMr. Gentomin. of 29.5.35 \n\nattachment \n\nto be sealed when expected \n\nfrom (ages received minute \n\nis \n\nMr. Burney is Kapant is not formally joined but received notice it has been submitted. \n\n? Work to B.&E. Thanking \n\nZiara \n\n3 \n\n8161. Copy 10th. If Xp6. \n\nWe shall wait until the appendix is received to proceed. \n\n386/35 \n\nThink, as we are to be told printing plans. \n\nThe Dane telling Bus... \n## \n30/5-",
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        "content_text": "## DESTROYED UNDER STATE \n\nThe position is that we have received them. The four draft copies are with Mr Ramey's Reput. This covering letter had better now await return from the printer who will send three copies of a proof within the next fortnight, which will also be sent to Mr Rumey for signature before printing. The ref can be dated with the date 29/3/35. Perhaps you will write to explain this position to Rumey.\n\nAction accordingly queued flinchin Burney -- 28/5/35 \nReceived - 29-5-35",
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        "content_text": "## 20 C. Ages\n\nand enquiries have increased concerning certain lines 30 S. 35 \n\ndistribution list. points ? Kyly confirming fine arrangements m J.A. minute Jay that C.A. may sell The small quantity quantity being obtained by them at a price will We succeed when The cost of printing publishing The 125 copies is Kawain Ash to be informed Thes accordingly 16than 31/5/35\n\n## 21 Cages\n\nRef 16, be handed li C.O. 12 will be ready pressed I submit Should in www Car by 12460 furial 4th Jane. Comes given by 7th. draft 18 go 15-day annnie. 18 Ratan Waterlon Saus - 416.35 PER STATUTE 1-6.35 enquiries will required 12 of appraisal Mr. Pourney, which when The points 4-6-35 Juds moof of Refront ele.",
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        "content_text": "## \nLetta sent to R Burney looking with two copies of proof relating to the working typed draft.\n\n## \nAs soon as \n1 Burney; reply is necessary with corrected proof, which must be done at once. \nMessrs Waterlow (they will send a proof on telephone request) \nWe read their consideration of the questions regarding the distribution proposed.\n\nN 20 \nthat the Sukis the only \nbut there \n1 An \nis be no question of Aabhaing copies on sale \nLuvie mates until the Cromst of Hong Kong Land receive this topic, and then only if the stomal Fort agree to sale. \nBefore issue to the men, each Adwaing print should be stamped **\"Confidential\"** - it should be accompanied by \n2674 \nwhich E. Jest can prepare explaining that the Report has not yet been",
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        "content_text": "seen by the host. \n\nAttention of HK \n\n... \n\nUn... \n\npresented a \n\nMortuit. \n\nmust be considered as a Confidential document. \n\nShould discuss with Draft how. after you ih. May new. appears ... jh. \n\nBurney in inaccessible is probably so that it will not be possible is his approved or signed Report back for printing in time for final copies to be distributed to members of the Monetary Committee \n\n18 than 7/6/25 \n\nWe can moof comes for the chee D4 to CA. \n\n... ostitation to members of to Adlerson they are submitted. The latter can wait. \n\nSellent.",
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        "content_text": "## \nTo C.A.\n\n16 \n6.35.\n\nCrown \nAgents tell \nthat \ntoday \nthe proof copies will be \nI will have them in \nhand tomorrow. I will send \nthem to \nwho will see that \nthey \nare \nworked \nbefore distribution, \naccurate \nand he will also \nnote \n\"Proof - Confidential\" \non each copy \nif you approve. \n\nThe Margher has \nconcurred in its terms. \n\n20 A.C.E.C 13/35. \n\n14.6.35 \nCirculating **CONF. PROOF** \nof Mr. Burney's Report. \nSo. Govt. \nPapers herewith for Thursday's meeting.\n\n14.6.35 \nBurney \n\n**DESTROYED UNDER STATUTE** \n14.6.35",
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        "content_text": "Arthur H.W.\n\nThere have gone \nJe Wahertens \nCA. ? We \n6-1..+.E. Thanking \ncan Them \nnow write \nof (6). \nWe saw send a Teller to Fxx timport. \nWhen we para Š copy of this when we dend unt the M. Ciskan 17/6/35 \n\n1 Burney in effect, has now stopped submitted to the Sec. or State his report Echs in 718 which he was commissioned by the late sos To undertake the proof of Advanu copies of 4 Report Lan been the luled t memory of The Advismy gree or Soner for findin on the occasion of a statement of aguent character which The Burnly is to make Lis Missin when the Che meek \n\nBut mosuction of This findings M this week. \nprobleching the Report arises at this stage.",
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        "content_text": "The time has come for an official acknowledgement to Members of the Report to be sent with comments by Burns, Kann & Associates regarding their series. I sent 2 copies to Shanghai. The BE.\n\nMe Gaul \n`716/15` \n35- \nAt the Mugher \n18-6 \n\nWhen the report is available I should wish a copy should have one. \n& I should \n`19` \n`2820 E. Burner` \n**22 JUN 1935** \n`2 Bd. Edven-we (28)` \n**22 JUN 1935** \n`122/8` \nTo Waterlouttons. w/ corrected proof.\n\n**DESTROYED UNDER STATUTE** \n- \n- \n**22 JUN 1935** \nNB \nlat \n26 Mr Lamons (CH). we (0) - ws and \nM \n**22 JUN 1935** \nیا \n**ROYED UNDER STATUTE** \n18",
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        "content_text": "## \n32. Extract from minutes of Advisory Committee meeting may be put by.\n\n23.7.35\n\nThe Committee's Conclusions are need to be communicated to WR at the same time copies of the Report are sent out. We have not yet heard from The C.A.\n\nThe final copies were received on 24/7/35. When this was expressed to Went. \n\nN.B. I have had a talk with Migun who is to leave on long leave, anxious about what will happen to the printed report while he is away. He is to be definitely advised on his return.\n\nThe July meeting of the Education Committee was cancelled.\n\nThis is new to me, with which I agree.\n\nThank...",
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        "content_text": "## the covering despatch \n\nThe draft minutes **AL** not enclose but she simply \n\n20 \n\nThe Course of the Report \n\n2) Convention that it was clear that it was \n\nthat the attention of the was to be directed particularly to certain points raised in (b) to (f) of this draft recommendations in 32.\n\n3) Ash to BAG.; Phones & Hommertinen \n\nThe general conclusions by 12 Burney & on particular recommendations he makes & on those made by the liaison are supplementary to his.\n\nSWGent. 2012 al 20 J. C. Lamon (CA) - bons: 34. C.R. \n\n(50 copies of Bunney Report delivered on 31 July 1935.\n\n✓ 2.8.35 to one in Earth Dept.\n\nPage 20\nPage 21",
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        "content_text": "## 2.1\n\nOn the Pens to instructions\n\nI submit that\n\nIslington 15th\n\nA digest is kindly\nto be marked\n\nn \n\n- \n\n35 Tel to Gw.\n1.6 ostan\n3/8/35\nTel to Gw. Hong Kong No. 123\nDrafts Kiw.\n\nAfter rese\n**Confidential** 29\nhave \nhave\npp.\nMembers & ACBC.\n\nSeveral \n... \ngone off\n3rd August 1935\nMr. Pagination\ndistribute copies to the\n\nI understand what\nThe \nProf \ncques \nwere \nre-collected after the \nbut the note but the \n... \nDovering \njust meeting, \nthe final cosys \n... \nnight ist Members to send in \ngaps \nany.\n\nexpres the remaining \nin then Assesstin\n\n6.4 \n1.6 Costan \n6/8/35 - \nHQlowell \nIs 7/8/35? \nat once",
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        "content_text": "# 342 Bd. Eduran \n2 Bd. Eduan. W/ Report.\n\n**RESTRICTED** \nUyarat bind \n\n22. \n9 AUG 1935 \n6? \n17209. \n2 J. C. Launons (CA \n3 Aud \nbous. \n9 AUG 1935 \n\n**AIR MAIL** \nTo H. King 309 (w/e 309) \n\n(aufe mal to 18.) \n189 19 cons \n- 9 AUG 1935 \ncoppers of next \naffor \n\nMy Gent. \nMm. Poynton \npl. au & Mani \n19.8.35 \nmains. apposite. \n\nJour \nI attach a draft of my Covering notice which I should like you to vet before it is copied. \nWhere 2. Cau 1 gel. The actual copias Mui Reful from when IKE noice has been duplicated? \nAmoquloù 12/viii/35. \nMr. Poynton. \nMr. Jent has gone on leave. \nI think your draft Quinte 1s view of you like من wheat with it. \nattach will night from the Dapto point & 30 copies of the Report for distribution \n\nWill you pl. arrange to have each copy marked **Confidential** (v. Mr Sent to marginal menute opposite). \n21/11/35 \nwhich was with me. \nA copy & The Ropine-final tropone has keen also return \n1 Proof copy has been sent to",
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        "content_text": "# HONG KONG\n\n## NO. 285\n\nSir,\n\n**Colonial Office, Downing Street, 7 August, 1936.**\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 347 of the 4th of June, in which you enclosed copies of the Report of the Director of Education for the year 1935. I have to inform you that in due course I propose to communicate copies of the Report to my Advisory Committee for their consideration, but before doing so I believe that it would be convenient for the Committee to be placed in possession at the same time of information as to the present situation with regard to the adoption of the various recommendations of Mr. F. Burney in his Report on Education in Hong Kong, which were the subject of Mr. Malcolm MacDonald’s despatch No.309 of the 9th of August 1935.\n\n2. I desire to give the Advisory Committee an opportunity to consider the Report under acknowledgment at their forthcoming meeting in the latter part of October, and therefore I should be obliged if you would furnish me not later than the middle of October with your detailed observations on Mr. Burney’s recommendations.\n\n**GOVERNOR  \nSIR ANDREW CALDECOTT, C.M.G., C.B.**  \nGovernment House, Hong Kong.",
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        "content_text": "1 \n\nand a statement in some detail on the steps taken or \ncontemplated to give effect to those proposals.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient, \nhumble servant, \n(Signed) W. ORMSBY GORE.\n\n30\n\nPage 30\nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "## Page 31\n\nMy dear Barney,\n\nI wonder whether you saw when you were in Hong Kong the enclosed history? As it is probable that I shall be out of England when the Hong Kong government's views on your report are considered by the Committee I am drawing your attention to the book because it seems to me to indicate forcibly some of the defects that you noted in the present school certificate course in Hong Kong. Something will obviously have to be done to insist on your plea for simplification receiving attention, whatever the Hong Kong Education Department may say.\n\nIn conversation with Handyside I gathered that he could see no faults in the book or in the certificate course for which it is intended. When I referred to the difficulty of the language and of much of the subject matter he said that no attempt had been made to simplify either because school certificate candidates usually stayed in the schools till the age of 19 or 20.\n\nWhen",
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        "content_text": "32 \n\nC \n\n2. \n\nI asked him to what course of study the book was supposed \nto be introductory but I could get no clear answer. \nApparently the book covers only a portion of one of the \nalternative history courses for the school certificate. \nWhen I pointed out that only 8 out of 145 pages were \ndevoted to the history of the world since 1870, while 24 \npages were devoted to the history of Greece and Rome he \nsaid that special local conditions justified more \nattention being paid to ancient civilisations than to \ncurrent events. I could not get from him a clear idea \nof these local conditions to which he referred. \n\nApparently \nno provision is made in the course for Civics or for any \nkind of the administrative machinery in Hong Kong. \nIt \nis not considered desirable to interest Hong Kong students \ntoo much in political and administrative questions. I \ncould get no clear ideas as to the place occupied by \nEmpire history in the course as a whole. \n\nI expect all this is painfully familiar to you. \nI hope most sincerely that some simplification of courses \nwill result eventually from your report and this reminder.",
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        "content_text": "## 2, Richmond Terrace, Whitehall, SW1 \n7th May, 1936 \n\nDear Handyside,\n\nYou will remember that you kindly gave me a copy of your introductory History and suggested that we might like to review it in \"Oversea Education\".\n\nWe discussed the book in one of our talks and you explained to me that there were special local circumstances which accounted for the points of difference between this book and the kind of history book that we had in mind as suitable in most of our dependencies.\n\nAfter further consideration I have come to the conclusion that the book is so local in aim and method that it would not be worth our while to notice it in \"Oversea Education\". Our space for reviews is so limited that we confine ourselves to books which have a general interest, i.e. can be commended to other dependencies for actual use or as a model. Our main duty if we reviewed the book would be to explain why it is not suitable for other dependencies.\n\nI hope you will understand the position.\n\nMeanwhile we are most glad to have the book and...",
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        "content_text": "**FACULTY OF ARTS**\n## UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG\n36\n\nGet-4th 1995\n\n4.\n\nMy dear May,\n\nI have now had an opportunity of going over Burney's report and also of hearing his comments. It is fair and, on the whole, temperate, but they may prove all the more effective because they are not qualified by any undue vehemence.\n\nThe hand of the Director mixes itself with almost everything that is said, but complains that, as it is, the recommendations made would not justify the expense and effort that have been made. Another head master says that leaving Certificate at the age of 16 would have no value in the secondary school.\n\nThe onus of the administration lies upon the head master, and that various points have been raised. He complains that the position would not have been taken if another had been taken that have been, from time to time, raised.",
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        "content_text": "377 \n\nbut he and the others who bring out this point do not understand the issue.\n\nI have posited that the leaving certificate is possible only if the primary school is reorganised or perhaps recreated. \"Pupils from 6-11 years\" are at present not suitably catered for.\n\nSurrounding schemes in the colony are at present wasted on vocational pursuits. If this were reformed, the quality of pupils entering the Anglo-Chinese school would be much higher, and the subjects taught would be very different. Further, at the early stages, geography and simple arithmetic were given through the medium of English.\n\nIt is suggested that if Chinese and arithmetic were given through English, the pupils would be in a higher stage and the teaching would be as it is at present.\n\nThe report vouches that a Certificate class whose attainments are very high can be brought about with these reforms - a progressive reduction in the University's matriculation standards because Education has tied its standards to this.\n\nThe previous depiction of the situation would not warrant such comment.",
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        "content_text": "## FACULTY OF ARTS\n### UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG\n\nThe present system provides neither the facilities nor the staff for further instruction of the requirements for the Leaving Certificate examination. However, students of the Faculty of Arts were not necessarily following the matriculation course. More learning material was added for pupils who wished to proceed to the university.\n\nIf the Leaving Certificate Examination is to be adjusted to the needs of the matriculation requirements, then obviously Latin must be taken. I myself have always opposed the separation of the Local Examinations from the Junior Leaving Certificate Examination because I felt that it would lead to the abandonment of the Junior Leaving Certificate Examination, which is the culmination of primary education.\n\nSir William Shenton has said that he could not envisage the Education Department taking over the responsibility for this whole area, but the report does not recommend that it should. This change is long overdue. Expenditure on equipment will reduce efficiency and thus be increased.",
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        "content_text": "# \n\nThere is punditure \n\nThere is much to be said for this. In the colony, it provides a channel for the diffusion of higher education among students and culture. \n\nEspecially in the higher levels, it is borne out that the curtailment of opportunities for education has imperiled the community. \n\nThe report for the first time shows an organisation with special intention for social service and Officials with education. It is thus a new point of view which the European community will find different from what I myself would have done.\n\nI accept that vernacular schools are concerned with a free and settled population, not a shifting one where each village has its own limitations. \n\nWe shall provide schooling for the colony, though it may be poor and cheap. People from Canton are suffering from depression. The motor...",
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        "content_text": "## FACULTY OF ARTS\n\n40\n\nTELEPHONE No. 28056 (UB-EXCHANGE)\n\nOne Cinema is to be opened next month with a million pounds spent on it. The Nilis Bank Buildings cost musty millions and are one of the most luxurious in the Far East, and probably in England too. They are incredibly lavish. I honestly say that few primary schools can be built with such luxurious facilities. I have already stated in my report that educational facilities cannot be made with such extravagance.\n\nTensions arise because schools cannot be made responsible for such luxurious facilities. I have stated that the study of practical subjects in school must be done in a practical manner. A full-time instructor will be appointed to supervise this work in the schools and give guidance on the method. A headmaster should devote time to this work. So it is not alone at present, but in any case, a record entry should be made with my department.\n\nPage 40\nPage 41",
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        "content_text": "# No 524.\n\n**AIR MAIL**\n\nSir,\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONG KONG. 14th September, 1935.\n\nWith reference to paragraph 1 of your despatch No. 309 of 9th August, 1935, I have the honour to inform you that there is no objection to the publication of the Report on Education in Hong Kong by Mr. E. Burney, M.C.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\nN.L. Smith.\nOfficer Administering the Government.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.\n&C., &c., &c.",
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        "content_text": "G/Hong Kong 6936/1.\n\nLent Optics `53587`\n\n/cs\n\nMr. Gent.\n\nRECEIVED\n15 AUG 1935\nCOLONIAL OFFICE.\n\nJ. O. REGY\n49\n34\n\nReferring to your minute of the 9th August No.`53581/35` addressed to Mr. Lamont, the 50 copies of Mr. Burney's Report on Education in Hong Kong for the Colonial Government were posted to the Colonial Secretary on the 13th July.\n\nThe original proof copy signed by Mr. Burney has now been received back from Messrs. Waterlow & Sons, and is enclosed herewith.\n\nWe note that you are ascertaining from the Hong Kong Government whether they have any objection to the publication of the Report.\n\nA. Mu\nStores Dept. (G.4.)\nCrown Agents Office.\n13.8.35.",
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        "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\ncopies. please 12/5  \nACEC. 19/35.\n\n**ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION IN THE COLONIES**\n\nalnice  \nMr.  \nMr. Parkinson.\n\nWith reference to item 6 of the Minutes of the 613! Meeting  \nI circulated  \n1  \nMr. Tomlinson.  \nDRAFT. 30 copies below  \nSir C. Bottomley.  \nSir J. Shuckburgh.  \nPermt. U.S. of S.  \nParly. U.S. of S.  \nSecretary of State.  \nMr. E. Burnsip Report herewith a copy of the official text of Education in Hong Kong.\n\n2. The Report has now been sent to the A-G of Hong Kong, and with a summary of the Chief's views Mirrson. On receipt of recommendations of the Govt. of H-K, it will be submitted to the Clee. For the present action, there is, however, no further required, the Report being circulated only for information.\n\n3. **FURTHER ACTION**. The Report must still be regarded as a Confidential document, the question of publication is at still unsettled.\n\n4. There are a number of copies still outstanding. I have not received back from members (ACEC 13/35) a copy of the Proof, which they now? still have. Will any member who has a copy please return it.\n\nA.H. POYNTON  \nOfficial Secretary.\n\nPage 50  \nPage 51",
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        "content_text": "## C. O.\n**X**\nMr. Costar.  \nMr. Gent. 6.  \n(6/8/35.  \nMr. Cowell 6  \nSir C. Parkinson.  \nSir G. Tomlinson.  \nSir C. Bottomley.  \nSir J. Shuckburgh.  \n1. Shuckburgh 7/8/35 75  \nPermt. U.S. of S.  \nParly. U.S. of S.\n\n53581/35. Hong Kong.\n\nDowning Street,  \n9 August, 1935.\n\n**Secretary of State.**  \n**(6)**  \n**DRAFT.**  \n**HONG KONG.**  \n**NO. 309**  \n**O.A.G.**\n\nWith reference to my Telegram No 623 of 5th August 1935, I have the honour to refer to Sir William Peel's despatch No. 118 of the 27th of February, 1935 regarding the visit to Hong Kong of Mr. E. Burney, M.C., and to inform you that Mr. Burney (Author of the Report on Education in Hong Kong) has submitted his Report to the Secretary of State and the Report has now been printed (on behalf of the Crown Agents by Messrs Waterlow). The Crown Agents for the Colonies were requested to print 125 copies of which 50 copies are, it is understood, being forwarded direct to you by them. 50 copies have been received in the Colonial Office, of which 30 will be required for distribution to the Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies. The remaining 20 copies have been retained by the Crown Agents for the Colonies.\n\nA copy of the covering letter submitting the Report is enclosed.\n\n**FURTHER ACTION.**\n\nTo Mr. Burney. 22nd June, 1935. (29)  \nTo Board of Education. 22nd June. (28)  \nFrom Mr. Burney 24th May 1935 (Evil to 18)",
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        "content_text": "52\n\n\nColonies in case it should be decided that \npublication may be published (for the Report for sale in this country, in addition to the normal distribution to certain Libraries in various areas) I should be obliged if you would intimate me whether you have any objection to your wishes in this regard in due course.\n\n2. As requested in paragraph 3 of your despatch No 118 of the 27th Feb. 1935, the thanks of the Hong Kong Government have been conveyed to the Board of Education for the loan of the services of Mr. Burney. I enclose copies of letters addressed to the Board of Education and to Mr. Burney in this connection.\n\n3. Proof copies of Mr. Burney's report, marked **Confidential**, were confidentially distributed to the Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies for their last meeting. Final copies were not then available, but it was thought advisable to give the Committee preliminary information of the substance of Mr. Burney's recommendations. It was clear from the discussion in the Committee upon the proof of the Report that the Committee's attention was...",
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        "content_text": "C.O. 53 M1\n\n**DRAFT**\n\nMr. Sir C. Parkinson.\nMr. Sir G. Tomlinson.\nMr. Sir C. Bottomley.\nSir J. Shuckburgh\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\nParly. U.S. of S.\nSecretary of State.\n\n**FURTHER ACTION**\n\nwas likely to be directed particularly to the following points:\n\n(1) Recommendations 1, 2 and 3 in the Summary of the Report. The Committee were not able in the time at their disposal to study fully all the implications of Mr. Burney's recommendations, but noted that the main object of these appeared to be to provide a suitable course for pupils who leave school at sixteen and do not proceed to the University. With this object they were in sympathy.\n\n(2) Without seeking to disparage the work done by the various Directors of Education in the past, and while realizing that there may be strong arguments on other than educational grounds in favour of the system of appointing a Cadet, the Committee consider that on purely educational grounds the appointment of a professional Director of Education was now desirable.\n\n(3) The Committee were disposed on the basis of their present information to agree with Mr. Burney's recommendation that a Senior Inspector with the best qualifications should be specially selected for service with the Hong Kong Education Department and should be eligible for promotion.",
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        "content_text": "54\n\n\n## promotion to the Directorship.\n\n(4) The Committee were also inclined \nto favour the suggestion made orally by Mr. Burney at the Meeting for the \nappointment of a woman as a second \nEnglish Inspector.\n\n(5) In view of the importance of \nChina to Hong Kong as a field of employment for Chinese who have been \neducated in the Colony, the Committee \nrecognized the importance of maintaining \ncordial relations between the Universities \nin Hong Kong and South China.\n\n4.\n\nI shall be obliged if you will submit \nyour observations and recommendations on the \ngeneral conclusions reached by Mr. Burney in \nhis Report, as well as his particular recommendations. \nYou will understand \nthat the conclusions recorded above are of a \npurely provincial character. The whole subject will be remitted to the Committee for further \nconsideration and advice when the views of your \npart have been received on Mr. Burney's Report \nand on those made by the Committee, in so far as they are supplementary to his.\n\nI have, etc.\n\n(Sgd.) **MALCOLM MacDONALD**",
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        "content_text": "# 53581/35. Hong Kong.\n\n3755  \nC. O.  \nMr. Costar. 8/8/35.  \nMr. Gent.  \nMr. ...  \nSir C. Parkinson.  \nSir G. Tomlinson.  \nSir C. Bottomley.  \nSir J. Shuckburgh.  \nPermt. U.S. of S.  \nFor Mr. Gent's signature.  \nMr. Lamont,  \nCrown Agents.  \nParly. U.S. of S.  \n\nWith reference to my minute of the 2nd August (34) G. Wing Kany 693, about the printing of Mr. Burney's report on Education in Hong Kong, we have now received from Messrs. Waterlow fifty copies of the final print of the Report. I assume that you will be forwarding fifty copies of the Report direct to the O.A.G. of Hong Kong already.\n\nWe have not yet received from Messrs. Waterlow the original proof copy which was signed by Mr. Burney. We should be glad if you would let us have this back in due course.\n\nMeanwhile, we are asking by despatch whether they have any views on the Report.\n\n**Colonial Office, Downing Street, S.W.1.**  \nAugust, 1935.  \n(Signed) G. E. J. GENT",
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        "content_text": "## \nMr. Costar 3/8 Mr. Yeat 3 Mr. Cowell. \nMr. Parkinson. \nSir G. Tomlinson. \nSir C. Bottomley. \n\n3 \n\n53581/35 N.K. \n+56 \nCoded +Sul \n2|-m \n56 \n35 \n318735 \n\nSir J. Shuckburgh. \nPermt. U.S. of S. \n(6) \nParly. U.S. of S. \nSecretary of State. \n\n**DRAFT**\nlet for ichro \nlet for \nGovernor of N/King \nNo 123 \nyour despatch No 168. \n\n50 \nI understand that matter copies & BURNEY'S printed by Waterlows, Repeat (have been forwarded \nby \nsean mail. \nDespatch \nFollows \nby \nnext mail \n\n**FURTHER ACTION**\nReave \nin red to \nHerr Gestapo for \n6/8 Rumpfs. \nJecen \n\nActual publication of report is being postponed pending your approval",
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        "content_text": "# G/Hong Kong 6936\n\n34. 57\n\nMr. Gent,  \nColonial Office.\n\nACHS/GMD\n\nReferring to your minute No. 53581/35 of the 31st July addressed to Mr. Lamont, we were advised by Messrs. Waterlow & Sons on the 12th July that, with the exception of those for the various libraries, the copies of Mr. Burney's Report on Education in Hong Kong had been distributed on that day. We now find, however, that the 50 copies for the Colonial Office were, unfortunately, overlooked. Messrs. Waterlow have expressed their regret for the oversight and state that the copies were delivered, addressed to you personally, this morning.\n\nA.  \n4. Masu  \nGeneral Department.  \nCrown Agents' Office.  \n2nd August, 1935.",
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        "content_text": "# REPORT \n## ON \n### EDUCATION IN HONG KONG \n**BY** \nE. BURNEY, M.C \n\nPublished on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong by the **CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES**, 4, Millbank London, S.W.1. \n\n1935.\n\n## Eastern Jour \nPage 1363 \nPage 58",
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        "content_text": "# REPORT ON EDUCATION IN HONG KONG\n## BY E. BURNEY, M.C.\n\nPublished on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong by the CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES, 4, MILLBANK, LONDON, S.W.1. 1935.\n\n59\n\nPage 60\nPage 61",
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        "content_text": "# EDUCATION IN HONG KONG\n\n## CONTENTS\n\nI. INTRODUCTORY AND HISTORICAL NOTE\n\nII. THE SCHOOLS TO-DAY\n\n1. **Organisation**\n2. **Statistics**\n3. **The Schools and the Curriculum**\n4. **The School Certificate Examination**\n5. **Technical Education**\n6. **The Vernacular Middle School**\n7. **The British Schools**\n\nIII. **CONTROL, ADMINISTRATION, AND INSPECTION**\n\nIV. **HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION**\n\nV. **TEACHERS-RECRUITMENT AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE**\n\nVI. **SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS**\n\nPage 60",
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        "content_text": "# I. INTRODUCTORY AND HISTORICAL NOTE\n\n## (a)\n\nThe Colony of Hong Kong consists of the Island of that name, with an area of 283 square miles, ceded to Great Britain in 1841, of the Kowloon Peninsula, ceded in 1860, and of a certain further portion of the mainland, known as the New Territories, leased to Great Britain by the Government of China in 1898 for 99 years. The total area of the Colony is about 890 square miles.\n\nBefore 1841 the island was occupied by the inhabitants of a few fishing villages.\n\nThe Census taken in 1981 recorded a total population in the Colony of 849,751, of whom 821,429 were Chinese. It is estimated that in the middle of 1988 this total had risen to 922,648, though since then, owing to the economic depression, the increase may have disappeared. The figure last mentioned includes 368,789 Chinese in the City of Victoria and 286,896 Chinese in the towns of Kowloon and New Kowloon. In other words, well over two-thirds of the Colony's population is urban.\n\nThe importance of Hong Kong has grown with the increase of China's trade with foreign countries. It is now, in respect of tonnage entered and cleared, one of the largest ports in the world. It is the most convenient outlet for the produce of South China and the natural distributing centre for imports into China from abroad. The Colony is not primarily a manufacturing centre, the most important of its industries being those connected directly or indirectly with shipping, such as dock and warehouse, banking and insurance undertakings. Sugar refining and cement manufacture are also major industries, and in recent years considerable quantities of knitted goods, electric torches and batteries, and rubber shoes have been produced and exported.\n\nThe following occupational figures are taken from the 1931 Census: Fishermen 5 per cent.; Agriculture 9.4 per cent.; Transport 18 per cent.; Personal Service 17 per cent. (49,000 males—28,000 females); Clerks, Typists, and Draughtsmen 5.9 per cent.; Textiles and Clothing 3.9 per cent.; Workers in Wood and Furniture 4.3 per cent.; Commerce, Finance, and Insurance 12.9 per cent.\n\nAdding the clerks, typists, etc., to those engaged in commerce, finance, and insurance, we have a total of 18.8 per cent. in white-collar occupations, not including a further small percentage employed in public administration. The percentage for males only is 24.7 instead of 18.8. The Census also showed that one-third of the Chinese population had lived not more than five years in the Colony.\n\n## (b)\n\nA short summary of the history of education in the Colony may help the reader to understand the rest of this Report. The following is taken from **The Educational System of Hong Kong**, a pamphlet written by the Director of Education in 1914 and published by the Government Printers:\n\nNot from the first day of its cession could Hong Kong complain that its educational and religious wants were unheeded. During the Governorship of Sir H. Pottinger (1841-1844) the Church of England and the Roman Catholics and Nonconformists were already at work. The Morrison School was founded by the late Rev. Dr. J. Legge, subsequently famous throughout China for his edition of the Classics, and late professor of Chinese at Oxford. At about the same time the Colonial Chaplain, the Rev. V. Stanton, founded St. Paul's College as a training College for native clergy. It still exists after various vicissitudes as a Secondary School for boys.\n\nIt is interesting to note how frankly in these early days the Government accepted the part of proselytiser. At about this time a small Grant of $5 a month was given to ten small schools, and a Committee of Education formed to control it. To the Bishop of Victoria, the Chairman, wrote Sir John Davis, the Governor, \"If these schools were eventually placed in the hands of native Christian teachers bred up by the Protestant missionaries, it would afford the most rational prospect of converting the native population of the Island.\" And during his administration (1844-1848) this policy was steadily pursued.\n\n*Quoted from the Annual Report on the Social and Economic Progress of the People of the Colony of Hong Kong during the Year 1939.* (Government Printers, Hong Kong.)\n\nPage 61",
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        "content_text": "# \n## Second period 1860-1877.\n## Third period 1878-1900.\n\nIn 1850 the Committee of Education says in reporting on the aided schools all the teachers are professed Christians; and it names Bishop Bone's catechism in a list of the school books—a Chinese translation compulsorily taught to the sons of unbelieving peasants by professed converts.\n\nAt this period there were besides St. Andrew's 18 Government schools with an average attendance of 400; and 4 Missionary schools, 2 Protestant and 2 Roman Catholic, with an average attendance of less than 100 pupils.\n\nThe rudiments of English were first taught in the Government Schools at about this time.\n\nMeanwhile a change of opinion had been gaining ground. Dr. Legge was opposed to every form of State religion; and when in 1859 he became predominant in the councils of education, he led a successful movement to modify the existing policy of the Government, which might have been summed up in the words, Christianity through letters: proselytising rather than education was the keynote.\n\nThe second period in the history of education in the Colony may be considered as dating from 1860. In that year Dr. Legge acted as Chairman of the Committee (now termed Board of Education). Supported by the new Governor, Sir Hercules Robinson, he merged certain of the small Government Schools into a Central School, which, under the name of Queen's College, is to-day the most important school in Hong Kong. The first headmaster, Dr. Stewart, was also appointed Inspector of Schools to the Board. In 1865 the Board of Education was abolished.\n\nThis completed Dr. Legge's revolution. The Education Department was now no longer under the direction of the Bishop of Victoria; it became a civil department under the Inspector of Schools directly responsible to the Governor. The Diocesan School and Orphanage for Boys was founded in 1870.\n\nThe Roman Catholic Bishop Raimondi was a keen educationist. Under his influence the Roman Catholic Schools had by 1871 increased to thirteen in number with over 600 pupils, half of whom were girls. The West Point Reformatory was one of these Schools. In the same year the Protestant Missionary Schools could only show an attendance of something over 100 children.\n\nFor all this time and till 1871 no financial support of any importance was given to Missionary Schools. Apparently they charged no fees; and thus Hong Kong was in this happy position, that a very large part of its educational responsibilities was borne by charitably disposed persons at home.\n\nThe year 1872 is of importance as being the first in which a Grant was offered to schools belonging to the Christian Missions. A code was drawn up, containing a condition to which great importance appears to have been attached at the time: no religious instruction was allowed during four consecutive working hours each day. With 1877 the second period draws to a close.\n\nWhilst in the first period the Government rivalled the missionaries in a race to Christianise the community by means of education, in the second, on the other hand, it confined itself to secular instruction, and, so far from supporting the missions, declined to associate with them, except on the clear understanding that money paid for education should not and could not be used for proselytising.\n\n## \nAn amended Grant Code was issued in 1878 which stipulated that Code subjects should be taught for four hours daily, but otherwise left it absolutely in the hands of the managers how and when religious instruction should be given. Thenceforward Government and Protestant and Roman Catholic Schools have worked harmoniously side by side, with nothing worse than a very friendly rivalry between them.\n\nDr. Eitel was appointed Inspector of Schools in 1879. He held the popular laissez-faire views of his day, and was opposed to state schools where avoidable. In the one year 1893 eleven Government Schools were closed on the ground that they had been rendered unnecessary by new Grant Schools.\n\nDr. Eitel did not, like Dr. Stewart, combine the duties of Inspector of Schools and Headmaster Queen's College. Dr. Wright was appointed Headmaster. He and Dr. Eitel were unable to agree in their views, with the result that Queen's College was made independent of the Inspector of Schools. Thus education in the Colony became a thing of divided counsels for many years, and though the system no longer exists some of its evil effects are hardly obliterated.\n\nIn 1894 the Grant Code was amended and provision made for Building Grants. In 1897 Dr. Eitel was succeeded by Mr. A. W. Brewin, who was succeeded by the writer in 1901.\n\n## Fourth period 1901-1910.\n\nIn that year an Education Committee consisting of Mr. Brewin, Registrar-General, Dr. Ho Kai, and the writer, reported at considerable length upon the unsatisfactory condition of education in the Colony, and many of the reforms since instituted may be referred back to this Committee. It emphasised the need of introducing oral methods in the teaching of English, modern ideas respecting history and geography, and the cultivation by Chinese students of their own language.\n\nThe system of giving grants which had hitherto been entirely and unashamedly by results was brought more closely into accord with modern ideas, and the Grant Code amended accordingly. The need for more practical and better teaching in the Vernacular Schools was insisted on.\n\nThe Technical Institute was founded in 1907, under the governorship of Sir Matthew Nathan. Upon the retirement of Dr. Wright in 1909 the Department was reconsolidated under one Head, the Director of Education.\n\nThe idea of founding a University in Hong Kong was by no means new; but the rapid advance of English education during the last preceding years had made it a practical possibility. In the governorship of Sir F. Lugard (1907-1912) the liberality of the late Sir Hormusjee Moody supplied a building; and public interest now deeply stirred, not only locally but in China and among Chinese in the Straits and elsewhere abroad, provided the funds. The Hong Kong University was opened in 1911, and with it the present chapter of education in Hong Kong begins. A bold piece of legislation in 1918 the Education Ordinance—established the compulsory inspection of schools. The total nett expenditure on education in 1901 was $60,668, in 1913 it was $269,164, of which only about $15,000 was spent on primary Vernacular Schools, i.e., roughly speaking, on primary education.\n\nIn the period 1901-1913 the average number of pupils in Government and Grant Schools receiving instruction through the medium of the English language (roughly the equivalent of secondary education) increased by 60 per cent., while the corresponding increase for Vernacular Schools was only 10 per cent. In the same period the English-teaching Staff in Government Schools increased from 27 to 98 in number.\n\nIt will be noticed from the concluding paragraphs of the above extract that a very small proportion of the Government's expenditure on education was at that time devoted to primary education. This continues to be so, and is a feature of the Colony's educational system which is open to criticism, for the reason amongst others that, broadly speaking, primary education is all that the poorer Chinese can afford, and the Government is therefore giving least help to those who are least able to help themselves. However, the terms 'primary' and 'secondary' are used in a somewhat arbitrary and slightly confusing manner in Hong Kong, and their use in this Report will therefore as far as possible be avoided.\n\n## \nThe most interesting events in education since 1914 may be summed up as follows. The training of graduate teachers by Hong Kong University has begun to exercise an important influence on the Government schools in which they are employed. Other developments in the training of teachers have been the opening of a Normal School for women in 1921, and another for men, on the mainland, in 1926. King's College, now the biggest of the Government schools, was rehoused in fine and costly new premises in 1928. The opening of a Junior Technical School in 1933, and the fact that plans have been passed for a new Technical Institute, show that serious attention is now being given to technical education, formerly almost entirely neglected.\n\nAnother important change was made in 1933, the effects of which it is too early to estimate. Up till then the scholars in Government and Grant-in-Aid schools had been entered for the Cambridge Junior Local Examination in Class 2, and for Hong Kong University's Matriculation in Class I, the top class of the schools. It was then decided, for reasons which will be given later in this Report, to substitute for these two examinations a single School Certificate Examination, to be taken by all scholars in Class I, and carrying, under certain conditions, Hong Kong Matriculation with it. Though this examination, which is to be conducted by the University, will be held for the first time in June, 1935, its syllabus has exercised throughout 1934 a dominating influence over the work of the schools.\n\n*Mr. E. Irving.*",
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        "content_text": "## II. THE SCHOOLS TO-DAY\n\n### (1) ORGANISATION\n\nIgnoring three uncontrolled institutions which contain between them only some 450 pupils, the rest of the schools in the Colony, numbering 1,065 according to the latest information available, are all controlled by the Education Department. This control means one of three very different things, viz.:—\n\n(a) There are 20 **provided** schools; the cost of their equipment and maintenance is a charge on the Colonial revenues and, except for a few temporary appointments, the teachers are civil servants on the permanent establishment of the Colony. These schools will be referred to henceforward as Government schools.\n\n(b) There are 332 schools partly dependent on assistance from public funds. This assistance takes the form either of per capita grants, or of a subsidy paid quarterly as a lump sum. Generally speaking, vernacular schools conducted by private individuals as a means of livelihood will receive a subsidy, if they receive any assistance at all. Their existence is often precarious and the number of their pupils may fluctuate from week to week. The Grant-in-Aid schools are much more stable institutions, conducted for the most part by missionary bodies; there is no difficulty in their keeping proper registers and other records. Though somewhat less generously staffed than the Government schools, their standard of work, at any rate in the better ones, does not seem to be inferior.\n\n(c) There are, or were recently, 713 other schools subject to registration and inspection, but not receiving any assistance from public funds. The teachers may have any qualifications or none at all, and the premises range from reasonably good to intolerably bad. This fact creates a problem which is dealt with later in this Report.\n\n### (2) STATISTICS\n\nIn round figures, there were, according to the 1931 Census, some 253,000 children and young persons, between the ages of 5 and 20 inclusive, in the Colony. The pupils in all registered schools in 1933 numbered 72,917‡, or rather less than one-third of the total. It should be mentioned, however, that about 24,000 out of the total of 253,000 lived afloat, in junks or sampans. It would be difficult, anywhere in the world, to provide education for children living in those conditions. Further, the total of 253,000 almost certainly included a number, impossible to estimate, of migrants, on their way to Malaya or the Dutch East Indies, or returning to China from those countries. In short, to say that about one-third of the possible pupils are in the schools is, though a substantially true statement, one that does less than justice to the educational effort which the Colony is making. Moreover, though the age-range of 5 to 20 has been chosen for reasons which will appear later, there is not, it is believed, any nation in the world which is educating the whole of its population between those age-limits. If we consider only the population aged 5 to 14, the period of compulsory education in England, the total in Hong Kong falls to about 148,000. Making all proper corrections and adjustments, the fraction one-third becomes something not very far short of one-half.\n\nIt is, of course, probable that, among the boys and girls of school age who at any given time are not on the books of any school, there will be a number who have had some schooling and have left school early. It is also probable and regrettable that many of the poorest children in Hong Kong receive no education at all, for fees are charged everywhere except in one or two schools provided by Chinese philanthropic bodies, and though the fees may be as low as 50 cents (about 10d.) per month, even that is an appreciable tax on the resources of the poorest section of the community in a country where the standard of living is as low as it is in China. Chinese peasants reckon their wealth in \"cash,\" one \"cash\" being equivalent approximately to one-five-hundredth part of a penny. In Hong Kong coolies earn about 40 cents a day, with free lodging if they are Government scavengers; shop-assistants earn $7 or $8 per month, with rice.\n\n### (3) THE SCHOOLS AND THE CURRICULUM\n\nWhat kind of education are the schools giving? Taking the younger children first, there were recently in Government and Grant-in-Aid schools combined, 1,867 children under eleven years of age. At the same time, returns which were unavoidably incomplete showed that more than 28,000 such children were in private vernacular schools. In other words, it is in these schools that the vast majority of the children receive their primary education. Further, about two-thirds of the 28,000 were in non-subsidised schools, which presumably had not yet managed to attain the very modest level of efficiency that qualifies for a subsidy. In such schools there is no guarantee that education means anything better than spending long hours in learning to recognise and write a number of the Chinese characters, and in memorising, without any attention whatever to their meaning, texts from the Chinese classics. These activities prepared the pupils in the age-old Chinese system of education which prevailed till the revolution of 1912, for the composition of the \"8-legged essay.\" This essay and calligraphy were the sole subjects of the famous examinations which admitted successful students to the Civil Service. Old-fashioned Chinese teachers, uprooted from Canton by revolutionary reforms, found refuge in and after 1913 in Hong Kong, and there resumed the only means of earning a living which they understood. Some of their schools still continue. Though in many of the private vernacular schools the children are now taught to read with more or less sensible books, and learn something of the elements of arithmetic and perhaps a little geography, there is still far too much stress laid on sheer memorising and too little attempt made to arouse in the children's minds an intelligent interest in their work. This is particularly noticeable in the teaching of hygiene; the children commit to memory rules of health which are most flagrantly violated by the environment of their studies. Moreover, school life for these children consists of study only, unrelieved by those activities which nowadays are held to constitute an indispensable part of primary education. Indeed, in few, if any, of the schools would such activities be possible—there is no room for them. Further, the age range of a class is often far too wide; the writer found a girl of 12 and a young man of 20 in one class. Finally, the premises of these schools are usually inadequate and sometimes abominable, a matter which is dealt with in some detail in Chapter IV of this Report.\n\nIt is a serious weakness in Hong Kong's educational system, with results felt throughout the school careers of many of the children, that the schools in which the primary foundations are laid should be of so poor a quality. This is the more regrettable when it is remembered that for many of the children education ends at the primary stage. In fact, it is evident that the Government's expenditure on Higher (including Secondary) Education is out of proportion to its expenditure on Primary Education.* On these grounds it is recommended that the Government should assume as soon as possible larger responsibilities in primary education, and the best way of doing this would be to build, as a start, two or three large primary schools in the City of Victoria, staff them only with fully trained teachers, inspect them properly, and thus make them fit to serve as models for schools conducted by private enterprise (see also Chapter IV). These new schools should be free, an innovation which would not be very costly, since any fees charged could only be very small.\n\nOnly in the Government and Grant-in-Aid Schools is any planned system to be found. Of the 20 Government schools already referred to, four are for children of European British parentage, one is the Junior Technical School, opened in 1933, two are Normal Schools, one for men and one for women, and one is the so-called Vernacular Middle School. The remaining 12 Government schools are English schools, by which is meant that the medium of instruction is English, though the vast majority of the pupils are Chinese, with a number of Indians and Eurasians in the minority. There are 13 English Schools receiving Grants-in-Aid from public funds, and these 25 schools, containing some 9,000 pupils in 1934, may fairly be considered as constituting Hong Kong's attempted solution of its very difficult educational problem. It has already been suggested that this solution is unsound in so far as it fails to provide adequately for the primary education of young children.\n\nIn the Report of the Director of Education for the year 1924 it was stated that the numbers of Chinese children are so large that it is impossible for the Government to take charge of the education of all. The principle adopted is to endeavour to set a good standard of work in Government schools while giving assistance by grants or subsidies to all private schools which reach the required modest standard of efficiency.\n\nThe only money spent by the Government on primary vernacular education, i.e., on all primary education other than that given in a few grant-aided classes and in the so-called \"British\" schools for European British children, is the $120,000 of the subsidies vote. This works out to about $6.20 per pupil in the Urban Districts and $4.20 per pupil in the New Territories, and is on an average about half the cost of the schools. The total expenditure on education in 1933 was $1,617,274. The expenditure on Government schools, which may be regarded substantially as secondary schools, was $1,336,228. To this must be added a large fraction of the $229,000 (approx.) spent in Grants-in-Aid and the $350,000 grant to the University.\n\nPage 65",
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        "content_text": "## Confining attention for the moment to the 25 schools above-mentioned...\n\nConfining attention for the moment to the 25 schools above-mentioned, it has to be asked what is the general plan of education within which a good standard of work is attempted, what are its aims and what its achieved results. The answer can be given briefly. The schools have aimed at Hong Kong University's Matriculation Examination.* Their actual achievement has been to provide the University with a good proportion of its students, and the banks and business offices of Hong Kong with a large number of clerks. This summary statement will now be amplified.\n\n## Education in Hong Kong...\n\nEducation in Hong Kong has been dominated by the converging influence of two factors. First, there is the very old tradition in China that success in life and social dignity belong to those whose only tool is the pen. Admission to this privileged class has always been by examination. Second, there has been and is a large demand, from merchant firms, shipping offices, warehouses, and banks, for clerks—the occupation figures from the 1931 Census have already been quoted (page 5). The clerks must know English. Hence the schools have been obliged not merely to teach English, but to try to make it a real second language for their pupils, aiming at a standard considerably higher than that commonly attained at home in any foreign language. This demand comes from parents and pupils quite as much as from employers, and is nowadays by no means confined to boys. Girls, even if they are not going to work in teaching or in offices, where English is required, regard a knowledge of our language as a social asset and a matrimonial qualification. It is one of the marks of their modernity, like unbound feet, proficiency in swimming, and the use of lip-stick. Also, it opens their eager ears to Western culture as voiced by Hollywood.\n\n## The English course...\n\nThe English course in these 25 schools covers a period of eight years and is begun at about twelve years of age and finished, by those who do finish it, at about twenty. At this latter age, the pupil, if he has stayed the course so far, will, under the arrangement now in force, sit for the School Certificate Examination. This consists of five compulsory groups of subjects, in four of which the papers are set in English.\n\nThere is some tendency—and a welcome one—for the age of pupils beginning this eight years' course to drop to eleven. A Chinese boy or girl at the age of eleven or twelve, applying for admission to the lowest class (Class 8) in a Government or Grant-in-Aid English school, may or may not already know a little English. He/she may come straight from a vernacular school or may have been in \"pre-primary\" classes in a Grant-in-Aid school. In the former case, he begins a new life in a new school, after passing a test in Chinese. At first, he will probably be under a Chinese teacher, though the medium of instruction is English in most of the lessons. Afterwards, his teachers will be Europeans. Every year he is examined both in English and in Chinese, and only if his progress is considered satisfactory in both languages does he earn promotion to the next class. If he fails to earn this, and many do, he may spend another year going through the same work over again in the same class, or—since this involves some \"loss of face\"—he may leave school and give up the toilsome business of being educated, or, finally, he will sometimes contrive to obtain admission at another school to the class which he has failed to reach in his first school.\n\nThe curriculum, broadly speaking, consists of the subjects of the School Certificate Examination. Boys and girls in some schools have a little Physical Training, in others none; timetables make reluctant allowance here and there for a little Hygiene or Needlework, but in the main, one task and one task only is attempted in school hours, viz. preparation for the School Certificate Examination.\n\n## The work done within these bounds...\n\nNow the work done within these bounds is certainly not without its merits. The pupils learn to read English and, on the whole, to spell it surprisingly well (no doubt the study of their own written language develops their visual memory). Their handwriting is usually excellent. Their written work is neat, and in illustration of their notes, in Geography, for example, they draw admirable maps and diagrams. They acquire a useful knowledge of physics, chemistry, and mathematics. But there are very serious defects, nearly all of which can be traced directly or indirectly to the Examination. In the first place, the study of the English language and literature occupies too large a portion of the total time available, in some instances up to 23 periods in the week out of 41. This is a grossly excessive amount of a pupil's energy and time to be given to the study of a single foreign language.\n\nSecondly, this foreign language is treated far too much as if it existed mainly in print. It does not come to life enough in the spoken word. The pupils write fluently, but speak hesitantly and pronounce badly. In December 1929, it was stated at a meeting of the Board of Education that the majority of the boys in the English schools of this Colony are unable to pronounce accurately the simplest words in the English language.* This statement was not seriously challenged, though the Board rejected, after somewhat inadequate consideration, the proposal then advanced for the use of phonetics in teaching English speech.\n\nFaulty pronunciation is, of course, not revealed in a written examination. It is partly due to the pupils receiving their first lessons in English from Chinese teachers whose own pronunciation of English is very imperfect. The competent use of phonetics in the early stages, a really thorough drilling in the right use of the organs of speech for producing English sounds, would do much to remedy this. It must be added here that not only do the pupils commonly speak English badly after their eight years' course, but even their understanding of the spoken language is often so poor that they have to be given further special training, on admission to the University, before they can listen to lectures with profit. And the complaint is common with Hong Kong business men that recruits to their offices from the schools, though they will understand the written or printed word well enough, understand spoken English imperfectly and speak it badly. There is, however, some rather uncertain evidence of an improvement in this respect in recent years, particularly in the products of one important Government school where debates and informal discussions are encouraged.\n\nThirdly, it is obvious that those who finally reach the goal and pass, via the School Certificate Examination, into the University or into Commerce, are retarded. It is quite common for University studies not to begin till the age of 21, and this is late. But what is worse is that there has been no interval between the passing of the qualifying examination and actual admission to the University. In England, a boy qualifies for admission to a University at about 16, and the interval before his University studies actually begin, an interval commonly spent in part at any rate in the VI Form at his school, is a most valuable formative period in his education.\n\nFourthly, the natural anxiety in a school to obtain the maximum number of examination successes, combined with the somewhat formidable syllabus laid down for the School Certificate Examination at present (1935), has the usual result of an attempt to get down as much as possible in the form of notes which can be memorised. These notes, as has already been said, are very neat, but unfortunately, there is sometimes only too clear evidence that the writers do not understand the statements which they so carefully record on paper. The critical spirit, the desire to understand, were not encouraged in the classical Chinese system of education, which prevailed for so many generations. Its demand for a great deal of sheer memorisation tended to discourage other forms of mental activity which we in the West consider more valuable. The results can be seen any day in Hong Kong offices, where clerks or draughtsmen will copy the most obvious errors with scrupulous care and irreproachable accuracy. The younger recruits, it is gratifying to learn, are beginning to ask questions when questions should be asked.\n\nFifth, not only are the methods of teaching influenced by the examination, or rather by the fear of it, for the first School Certificate Examination under present regulations is to be held in June 1935, but syllabuses are determined by speculation about questions likely to be set, and the curriculum is, as has already been indicated, very rigidly limited, in many instances, to examination requirements. Two examples occur to the writer's mind, both, as it happens, connected with History, but it would certainly have been possible to find plenty of others. In two schools visited, Chinese boys were being taught, not without some detail, about the religious wars in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries. Asked whether he thought that this information was of the slightest importance to the boys, the teacher in one school said “No, but there will probably be a question on it.\" In another school, apart from a few stories told to the younger boys, History is not taught at all,* with the result that highly intelligent young men of 19 and 20 were found here who revealed an ignorance of the past complete enough to be delightful to a Voltaire or a Swift, but somewhat regrettable to less cynical minds.\n\nIt is the rule to find in Hong Kong schools, during school hours, no Physical Training, or a mere half-hour in the week, no Manual Instruction, no Arts or Crafts, no Music, and no period for organised games—the Girls' schools fare in this last respect rather better than those for Boys. It is unfortunately true that the incubus of examinations weighs upon young humanity in other countries besides China. But even the world-wide prevalence of a disease would be no reason for not trying to stamp it out.\n\nSixth, the schools are open to the accusation that they let their pupils fall between two stools. Their English, as has already been said, is not above reproach, yet, if the writer's information is reliable, they are so far behind their contemporaries in their knowledge of Chinese, owing...\n\n*As from 1935 a School Certificate Examination has been substituted, which, under certain conditions, will admit to the University.\n*Three subjects, viz. History, Geography, and Biblical knowledge, form a Group in the Examination. Two of these subjects must be offered, and only two.",
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        "content_text": "## \n\n12\n\npresumably, to the short school time given to that language, that they have to be specially prepared, sometimes for a year, for study in a Chinese University, should they elect that instead of Hong Kong University.\n\nSeventh, and perhaps worst of all, this \"one-path system\" serves the needs of a minority, those who do in fact wish to become University students, at the expense of the majority, who either have no such ambition or are unlikely, for one reason or another, to be able to realise it. They lack ability, perhaps, or at any rate that special kind of ability which succeeds in examinations; or their parents may become unable or unwilling to pay school fees after a time. In certain Government schools, where fees are doubled on the pupil's promotion from Class 4 to Class 8, that is, to the \"upper school,\" many leave on this account at the end of their year in Class 4, nearly always asking their Head Master for a written declaration that their education has been carried satisfactorily to this distance. Though here again it is true that the problem of the uncompleted course is not confined to Hong Kong, and in the nature of things is likely to be found anywhere where fees are charged and compulsion does not operate, yet it would be a great improvement if the work of the school could be so planned as to reduce considerably the numbers of the \"half-baked.\"\n\nThat the curriculum of the schools is sometimes ill-suited to the needs of the scholars is especially evident in the Colony's non-urban areas. Among the schools visited by the writer was one at Tai Long in the New Territories, and another at Cheung Chau on the island of that name. Both are Government schools. The former, in a completely rural area, gives the children a three years' English course under Chinese teachers. They begin to learn to read and write English—hardly to speak it, nor do they understand any but the simplest phrases when spoken to them. About half of them, perhaps, continue their education in other schools. The other half return to the villages to which they belong, and become engaged, like their ancestors before them for many generations, in the work of tilling the soil, an occupation not less valuable, on any broad view, than that of the clerk, the teacher, or the engineer. It is difficult to imagine of what use their smattering of English can be to them, though most of their time in this Government school will have been given to its acquisition.\n\nThe school at Cheung Chau serves the population of a large village or small town in which the only industry of any importance is fishing. A comment similar to that above is applicable.\n\nIt is often easier to point out defects in a system than to indicate practicable remedies. Some suggestions, believed by the writer to be practicable and of some value, will be offered later in this Report. Meanwhile, it must not be forgotten that there is a real and large demand for \"black-coated\" labour in Hong Kong (nearly one quarter of the males are so employed) and also that there is an insistent demand on the part of Chinese parents for their children to be taught English. A Government school in the City of Victoria which has hitherto taught English would soon be empty if it ceased to do so. There is, however, some evidence of over-production of clerks or would-be clerks. In a recent examination for appointments as Probationer Clerks in the Government Service, there were 470 candidates, of whom only 84 passed a preliminary test in dictation. And to a recent advertisement offering a post to a clerk with a knowledge of English, there were 140 replies in a few days. The fact that, when the Junior Technical School opened in February 1938, there were eleven applicants for every vacant place, is an encouraging indication that the Chinese themselves may be beginning to lose their age-long veneration for \"ink.\"\n\nThe educational system of the Colony, some of the chief features of which have been discussed above, could be improved in important respects. At present, it is fettered by an examination, and needs to be set free. This problem will be further dealt with in the next section. Besides that, the time-schedule of the system is wrong. The School Certificate should be an examination for boys and girls, not for young men and women. Of course, the fact that the examination, or most of it, is set entirely in a foreign language is a serious difficulty and is quite enough to account for some retardation as compared with England. But it does not preclude an earlier start with their English education, by those who want it, than is at present made by most of them—a welcome tendency towards this has already been noted. There is some evidence that the four or five years of school life which boys and girls have before they apply for admission to English schools (once more, the term means schools where the medium of instruction is English) are not used to as much advantage as they might be. It is not uncommon for a boy or girl of twelve to have learned, after perhaps five years in a Vernacular School, a little classical Chinese and very little else at all.\n\nLess than ten per cent of those entering the upper school, i.e., the three top classes, in one of the two big Government schools for boys, have hitherto passed Matriculation. This means that about five per cent of all entrants to the school have passed Matriculation; perhaps about three per cent have actually entered the University.\n\n## \n\n13\n\nThe Chinese are very far from being an unintelligent race, and in Hong Kong, their children by the age of twelve should have learned—it is believed that in many Chinese schools outside Hong Kong they have learned—to read and write their own language within appropriate limits, to perform simple calculations, preferably with the Arabic notation rather than with the abacus, and to understand something of the big world surrounding the little world which they knew well enough. Such an overhaul and speeding-up of vernacular primary education in Hong Kong would give the English schools a much better start than they have now. It is also desirable that the methods employed in selecting entrants to English schools, from the usually large number of candidates, should be reviewed in the light of educational practice and experience elsewhere. There is reason to think that the tests now in use do not always select the best candidates; they are of necessity, in so far as they are written tests, set and marked by Chinese teachers, with the result that the European Head Masters or Head Mistresses have no effective voice in the selection of their own recruits. The use of carefully planned intelligence tests, which the Vernacular Inspectors might be asked to draw up, would probably improve matters.\n\n### (4). THE SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION.\n\nThis examination is exercising, as already demonstrated, such a dominating influence on the schools of the Colony, that it deserves a note to itself. It is to be conducted by the University of Hong Kong; a summary of the Regulations issued by that body is set out in the Appendix. Up to 1932, the schools took the Cambridge Junior Local Examination in Class 2, the penultimate year of school life, and Matriculation in Class 1. In that year, it was decided to abolish the Junior Local, which accordingly was not held in 1933, and to substitute for the Senior Local (Matriculation) a School Certificate Examination. There was no Matriculation in 1934. After some discussion, it was settled that, under certain conditions, the School Certificate should admit to the University.\n\nThis change was the result of a demand from the schools, and the task of conducting the new examination was undertaken by the University with some reluctance. The advocates of reform wished to increase the range of the final examination, so as to make it include what one of them described as \"the seven basic subjects of a good general education, viz.: English, Chinese, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, History, and Geography,\" with a pass mark compulsory in each. At the same time, they wished to divorce the examination entirely from Matriculation, which they would have postponed for a year, and to reduce the syllabus in each subject, since they regarded the then existing syllabuses as too heavy.\n\nIt is evident that they have not got all that they asked for. The Certificate Examination is not entirely divorced from Matriculation, and the examination as a whole still appears a very formidable task. It has to be remembered that in four groups out of five, papers are set, and answers have to be written, in English. The minimum number of papers is nine, the maximum twelve. The examination is to take place in June, a month when humidity and high temperatures combine to make the climate very trying.\n\nThe task is certainly formidable enough, nor are the Regulations beyond criticism. For example, in Group V, candidates may offer only two out of the three subjects. This means in practice that most of the schools conducted by religious bodies—i.e., most of the Grant-Aided schools, regarding Biblical knowledge as a subject in which their pupils must be examined—omit either History or Geography; the consequences have already been commented upon in this Report. Again, in Physics, a pupil may pass either without showing any knowledge of electricity and magnetism, or without showing any knowledge of heat, light, and sound. In English, a candidate must pass either in English Grammar, including parts of speech, parsing, analysis, and explanation of idioms, or in knowledge of certain prescribed portions of English literature—*A Midsummer Night's Dream* being one of the choices.\n\nWhat this learning has sometimes amounted to appears from the following information given to the writer by the Principal of the Junior Technical School, which was opened as recently as 1933:—\"During the first two years of the course, many applicants of 13 years of age were found who could read Chinese newspapers, i.e., name all the ideographs correctly, without having any knowledge of the meaning. They were inclined to feel that asking them to explain the meaning was unfair, as only after a certain number of years in which they learned the ideographs parrot-wise would they be told their meaning.\"\n\n\"Some,\" it is added, \"do not know the Arabic numerals.\" How is a Chinese boy to \"explain\" in English the English idiomatic expression \"there is nothing the matter with him\"?\n\n## \n\n69",
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        "content_text": "## 70\n\n\n## 14 \n\nIt is more regrettable than surprising that the schools feel compelled to devote something like one hundred per cent of their energies to this examination. In fairness, it should be added that there is an age-old tradition in China that the only road to respect and a comfortable life is through examinations. And certificates from schools, that boys have reached such and such a class, have recognised employment values, the School Certificate itself being of course the final and most valuable piece of paper of the series.\n\nFurther, migration from school to school is easy and very common--one boys' school of about 800, with a four years' course, had 150 new boys in one year recently. Failure in a promotion examination may, as has already been said, result in a boy's departure for another school; there can unfortunately be little doubt that if a school gave a substantial allowance of time to, say, Physical Training, or to any other activity without a direct and obvious examination value, it would lose many of its pupils, unless of course all the English schools made the same reform at the same time.\n\nThe more, however, that Chinese boys and girls insist upon being prepared for this examination, the more important it is that such preparation should take place naturally in the course of a good general education, and that it should not be a substitute for such an education. The syllabus of the Examination, and the University's detailed regulations governing it, are open to criticisms, some of which have already been indicated.\n\nThere is, however, another objection, of major importance, to the present state of affairs. It is a \"one-path\" education suited well enough in some ways to those who are going to continue their studies at the University, and not in all ways ill-suited to the needs of those who go straight from school into commerce.\n\nBut it has already been made clear, and is indeed only what we should expect, that no more than a very small minority of the pupils in the schools find their way to the University. Many others go into commerce, but many also, especially girls, do not.\n\nMoreover, a great many do not survive to Class 1 at all, and consequently cannot enter for the School Certificate Examination, although their school work is in great measure meaningless except as preparation for that examination. Statistics supplied to the writer show that, taking Government and Grant-in-Aid schools together as jointly concerned with the School Certificate Examination, there were early this year 1,288 pupils in Class 7, 1,224 in Class 6, 1,267 in Class 5, and only 584 in Class 1. In other words, more than half the pupils fail to stay the course.\n\nIt is recommended that the curriculum in Government and Grant-in-Aid schools should be so widened as to provide rather more liberally than at present for the broad human needs of the pupils. In particular, more attention should be paid to their health, and adequate time allowed for regular Physical Training. Since they demand a certificate to the effect that they have carried through their studies satisfactorily, an examination should be held, for the award of such certificates, at about the age of 16, when most of the pupils do in fact leave school. The range and standard of the examination should be determined by those responsible for the schools--i.e., by the Head Masters and Head Mistresses with the Director of Education and his staff. It is unlikely that the University would be able to admit students to its various faculties on such an examination: apart from other objections, the standard attained in English would not be high enough. Entire responsibility for the examination, including the setting of the papers and marking of the scripts, should be assumed by an Examination Board nominated by the Director of Education. In planning the syllabus, it should not be forgotten that something less than the whole school week will be available for examination subjects, unless indeed these subjects include in future those activities for which at present little time or none at all is allowed, such as Physical Training, Music, and Arts and Crafts. The first of these certainly, the others probably, should have an adequate allowance of time to be a liberal education.\n\nThe few who wished to stay on at school with a view to being admitted to the University would have a year or two's post-Certificate work and would of course have to pass any test, by way of Matriculation, which the University thought fit to impose. If no Matriculation Certificates of any kind were issued, but successful candidates were notified of their success merely by the posting of a list in the University, this should do much to prevent pupils offering themselves for Matriculation without any intention of studying at the University.\n\n* For Physical Training, this should be a daily period compulsory in all Government and Grant-in-Aid schools.\n\n## 15 \n\n### (5). TECHNICAL EDUCATION\n\nTechnical Education in Hong Kong has hitherto consisted, first, of a number of evening classes, held in various places and connected with each other only by the name (Technical Institute covering them all) and by the supervision of them all by the Director of that Institute, and, secondly, of the Junior Technical School. It will be convenient to consider these two separately.\n\nThe classes of the Technical Institute have admitted students, aged 15 and upwards, at a charge, with the exception of one class, of $10 a term (two terms in the year). They have been held for the most part in the premises of Government schools and taught mainly by members of the staffs of those schools.\n\nThe present Director is one of the two Inspectors of English Schools.\n\nThe subjects of instruction have been grouped into four sections, viz.: Engineering, Science, Commerce, and the Training of Teachers--to which last further reference is made later in this Report.\n\nThe Engineering section includes courses, to last four years, for apprentices in the engineering, shipbuilding, and building industries. These courses have been started with the active co-operation of the Dock Companies and of the Building Contractors Association. It is understood that these bodies have agreed to full-time day courses, recognised as constituting part of the apprenticeship, being substituted for the present evening classes as soon as the completion of the proposed new premises for the Technical Institute makes this possible. It is obvious that this would be a very great improvement on present arrangements.\n\nThe Junior Technical School was opened in February, 1938, and provides a four-year course for the pre-apprenticeship training of prospective artisans. The four years include a preliminary year, which is devoted mainly but not entirely to improving the pupils' knowledge of English and of Arithmetic. This has been found necessary to enable the course proper to be followed without excessive difficulty. Many of the recruits are sons of men employed in the Docks, including His Majesty's Dockyard, or in the Public Works Department. The difficult task of selection from the 350 candidates first interviewed seems to have been performed with success, only five out of the forty chosen having had subsequently to be removed from the school. The age of admission is about 12. There were about 250 candidates this year. An obvious and serious difficulty in staffing at the beginning of the school's existence was overcome in a reasonably satisfactory manner. The Principal, brought out to his post from home, did not include among his qualifications, otherwise ample, a knowledge of Chinese. Chinese teachers possessing at once a good knowledge of English and thorough competence in the more technical subjects of the school's curriculum were not to be found. The boys knew little English, some of them none. That this pretty problem has been solved is much to the credit of the school, which may be regarded as having made a thoroughly good start.\n\nAs has already been mentioned, it is proposed to erect new premises to serve the purposes of a Trades School, and to provide, partly in daytime courses for apprentices, and partly in evening classes, for the educational needs of those employed in various branches of the building and engineering industries. A comprehensive scheme has been prepared for the systematic development of Technical Education in the Colony, for which a demand undoubtedly exists. Before any extensive building is done, it is of course necessary to look ahead as far as possible in order to make sure that the demand is likely to continue. The fact that a first-rate technical training may be used by some ex-pupils as a vocational asset in China proper rather than in Hong Kong is not to be regretted. There are probably two things, closely connected with each other, which China needs more than anything else, at any rate in most of her provinces, viz. honest administration and a higher standard of living for the mass of the people. If Hong Kong, geographically a part of China, can contribute anything, by example and by education, towards these two needs, then the Chinese will have no reason to regard the existence of a British Colony in what may be called their Isle of Wight as anything but a blessing.\n\nIt will be well, if the term Technical Institute continues to be used, to confine it to those activities which can collectively be regarded as Technical Education, and to find some other name for evening classes for teachers or for would-be matriculants. Nor does there seem any good reason for the Directorship of Technical Education being held in the future by one of the Inspectors of Schools. The present arrangement may have been justified at the time it was made, but as a general rule, it is not desirable that an Inspector, who is or should be fully occupied in the daytime, should assume evening duties in addition for a great part of the year. 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        "content_text": "## (6). THE VERNACULAR MIDDLE SCHOOL\n\nThis Government school came into being in its present form in 1921. It was intended from the start to devote its time more to Chinese than to English studies, and especially to the study of the Chinese classics. Its staff is entirely Chinese. At first, pupils did not proceed from this school to the University, perhaps because of the difficulty of a Matriculation which was mainly an English examination, but for some years now they have been doing so. This change, and the insistent demand on the part of Chinese pupils for a knowledge of English, have had some effect on the time-table and on the character of the school. In the first year of the school's course, 22 hours are given to study in Chinese and six to study in English. In the seventh and penultimate year, 16 hours are given to English and 11½ to Chinese. For the final year of the course, the corresponding figures are not available, but it is believed that an even greater proportion of time is given to English; for some of their English studies, the pupils attend classes under European teachers in a neighbouring Government school.\n\nIt is evident that this school tends to lose its special character and to become much like other Government schools, except for the absence of a European staff. It owed its origin partly to the conviction that Chinese was not taught satisfactorily in the Government English schools—a conviction for which there seems to have been good grounds. It is changing because it has not itself been able to teach English satisfactorily; the school is thus in the same danger as other Hong Kong schools of falling between two stools. On the other hand, if this school, whilst continuing to give substantially more time to Chinese studies than is given by other Government schools, and to be staffed only by Chinese teachers, succeeds in obtaining School Certificate results substantially as good as those of the others, certain interesting and important inferences will suggest themselves. The school appears at this moment destined either to lead other Government schools by achieving their results more economically, or to lag well behind them. Its future will be worth watching.\n\n## (7). THE BRITISH SCHOOLS\n\nThese schools are maintained by the Government exclusively for the children of those residents in the Colony who are not only British subjects but Europeans. They are sometimes referred to as \"European British.\" In other words, Chinese, Indians, and Portuguese are not admitted to these schools. This might appear at first sight a regrettable segregation of children from each other. A moment's reflection, however, shows that there is a very strong case for it on the ground of language alone. It is not possible to give satisfactory instruction in English to British and Chinese boys and girls of the same age together.\n\nThere are three primary schools, taking children from the age of about five to about nine or ten, and there is one other school (the Central British) which has an age-range of about nine to about seventeen, and so contains both primary and secondary classes. This last-named school is very badly housed, and the new premises which, it is understood, are to be built are certainly needed. When visited by the writer, it appeared to be rather lavishly staffed, with fourteen full-time and three part-time assistants for about 250 pupils on the books. It would be well to review the staffing at the first opportunity, which may possibly, owing to the small size of some of the present classrooms, only occur when the new premises are ready. As in all the Government schools, a staff in some degree larger than would be required at home is rendered necessary by the fact that, at any rate in the hot weather, one or two teachers will always be absent on home leave.\n\nIn 1914, the Director of Education wrote: \"The Government realises the justice of making the ratepayers contribute as little as possible towards the cost of this special class of schools, and the fees are therefore put as high as the parents can afford.\" It is open to doubt whether that is true now: in 1933, the fees were $90—i.e., just about one seventh of the gross cost per head. $90 means in sterling from about £4 10s. to about £9, according to the rate of exchange. There would not appear to be any hardship in making the parents contribute a rather higher proportion of the total cost, and this could be done either by increasing the fees or by reducing the staff, or both. Similar remarks apply to the primary schools of this category, though it is true that in one at least of these schools small classrooms make expensive staffing inevitable. The school last referred to is the Peak School. When seen by the writer, its classrooms were unduly crowded, and there is no doubt that more accommodation is needed. There is no room on the ... \n\n## III-CONTROL, ADMINISTRATION, AND INSPECTION\n\nThe Education Department has at its head a Director, and under him, there is a headquarters staff consisting of six Inspectors, two British and four Chinese, and eight Chinese Sub-inspectors. The Medical Officer for Schools, though his office is at present in the same building as that of the Director, reports and is primarily responsible not to him but to the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services. The clerical staff appears to be sufficient for present needs.\n\nThe post of Director of Education was created in 1909, and has always been occupied by a Cadet. There have twice been Acting Directors who were not Cadets. This arrangement has its obvious and inherent disadvantages. The Cadet, coming to Education from some other Government Department, has to undertake work of which he knows nothing at all. In so far as his work consists in the supervision and control of an administrative machine, the situation of a newly-appointed Director does not differ from that of a new head of any other Department. But in Education, as in other departments, the cost of administration is justified only by the efficiency of the service administered—in other words, and putting it a trifle crudely, the office exists for the schools and not vice versa. In Hong Kong, the Director normally comes to his task knowing nothing about schools, except what he may have learned as a parent, and with no knowledge of the theory and practice of education current elsewhere. When he tries to find out what the schools are doing, he is unable to compare this with anything done or attempted in other places. He does not know whether the aims of his schools are the right aims, if indeed it ever occurs to him to ask what their aims are. His purely administrative work is considerable, and it naturally takes him a little time to master the mere routine of his job. There have been six Directors or Acting Directors since 1924, and it is, therefore, probable that during most of that time, the head of the Department has been mainly occupied in learning his way about his own office, with the natural result that continuity of policy and effective educational leadership have been lacking.\n\nOn the other hand, there are certain advantages. As a Cadet, the Director is of equal status with the heads of other Departments in the Colony, and thus better able to \"keep his end up,\" and to see that the service of Education is not starved in the Estimates. He has some knowledge, varying, naturally, with the individual's linguistic talents, of the Chinese classical language and of the Cantonese vernacular spoken in Hong Kong. He has presumably, as the result of a lengthy residence, some understanding of the native mind and character. None of these qualifications would be likely to be possessed by a stranger brought in to the headship of the Department, as an expert educationalist, from, say, England.\n\nOn the whole, however, it seems clear that the disadvantages of the system outweigh its advantages.\n\nAs for inspection, the work of the two British inspectors, both of them usually ex-head masters of Hong Kong schools, has tended to be more and more office work. Schools are visited regularly, it is believed, but inspection has been mainly an administrative matter. Sometimes useful suggestions have been made in schools, but in the main, there has been little attempt to give educational leadership and guidance. New teachers, British and Chinese alike, have not been seen at work by anyone but their own Head Teachers during the critical first year of their service. It is not intended and would not be just to blame any individuals for this, but it is an unsatisfactory state of affairs, and leaves the School Certificate Examination as the sole criterion by which a school's efficiency can be judged. Indeed, the writer derived the strong impression that a really searching inspection would be regarded in some of the Government schools as almost an outrage.\n\nNow it is time that this ceased. Hong Kong is a small Colony, and has too long been under the temptation to regard its own ways as educationally irreproachable. It is true that some teachers have given time when at home on leave to the observation and study of various educational activities, and they deserve credit for it, but this is not enough. The Colony's educational system needs more than anything else a breath of fresh air from outside.\n\nIt so happens that there is a very good opportunity for doing what is needed now. The post of Senior Inspector of English Schools is vacant, and it is strongly recommended that the vacancy should be advertised with a view to the appointment of the best man obtainable from outside the Colony. Varied educational experience, breadth of outlook, the force of character...",
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        "content_text": "## IV. HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION\n\nThere appears to be some evidence that the health of the Colony as a whole is improving, though certain groups of diseases, notably respiratory diseases, continue to occur frequently to account for a higher percentage of the total deaths than is usual in Europe. Overcrowded houses, the expectorating habits of the people, and poverty furnish sufficient explanation for the prevalence of respiratory troubles.\n\nNow it is obvious that the conditions just mentioned as productive of certain diseases cannot be cured by the unaided efforts of the schools. But the latter can and should do all in their power to make their pupils understand the difference between healthy and unhealthy ways of living, and should do this by example as well as by precept. Unfortunately, it cannot be claimed that the Colony's schools, taken all together, are doing this. Whilst the Government and Grant-Aided schools work in premises which are often very good and seldom, in the writer's experience, worse than fair, in many, probably some hundreds, of Vernacular schools conducted by private individuals for their personal profit, the health conditions are very bad indeed. It must be remembered that the education of a great many Chinese boys and girls begins and ends in these schools; even for the minority who go on to other and good schools, irremediable harm may be done. The Medical Officer for Schools, in his Report for 1934, writes: \"Of existing factors that predispose towards chest and postural deformities, long hours, improper furniture, and lack of exercise during Vernacular school-life appear to be the most prominent,\" and \"I think the Vernacular schools can justly be blamed for the frequent occurrence and rapid progress of myopia.\" \"Generally speaking,\" he explains, \"their furniture is badly constructed, lighting is poor, and small print is in common use.\"\n\nThe writer of the present Report was taken by the Medical Officer for Schools and by one of the two Chinese Medical Officers who assist him, to see several of these private Vernacular schools, selected as typical. To the defects quoted above must be added these, that the ventilation of classrooms is often quite inadequate, and that sometimes there is no sanitary accommodation at all. Worse even than this, in other instances, there is sanitary accommodation, consisting of a crude and unscreened urinal for boys, used also presumably, on occasions, as a latrine, in the closest possible proximity to the kitchen. Finally, the only means of access to and egress from these schools, occupying it may be a flat on the second or third floor, is commonly a single narrow and dark wooden staircase. It should not be necessary to use any more words to justify the statement that these schools impair the health and endanger the lives of the children attending them, and that those children would be better employed in playing in the streets.\n\nSome of these private schools, in spite of their abominable premises, are receiving subsidies from the Government; all, whether subsidised or not, have to be registered. In May, 1933, the then Director of Education laid down the procedure to be followed thenceforward whenever new schools applied for registration. The premises were to be passed, before registration could be allowed, both by the Medical Officers for Schools and by the Inspector of Vernacular schools. It is understood that the Hong Kong Fire Brigade have to be satisfied that the premises are provided with adequate means of escape in case of fire. These regulations do not in fact appear to have prevented the registration of some new schools of which the premises can only be considered, by any reasonable standard, as most unsatisfactory. They have not, of course, put a stop to the existence of any schools registered before May, 1933.\n\nThere is no question here of any attempt to impose an advanced hygienic standard on these schools. They deserve condemnation, not for the mere failure to promote good health, but because they actively promote ill health. Though it is true that a number of individuals, perhaps quite well-meaning, earn a living by exploiting in these schools the traditional eagerness of Chinese parents to have their children educated, or at least their sons, this fact can hardly be counted as very important when weighed against their disservice to the health of the community.\n\nIt is recommended, therefore, that as soon as possible a Health Code for Schools should be drawn up by competent authority in Hong Kong, and that this code should be published by the Government, with an intimation to all concerned that any school not complying with its requirements within—say—twelve months will automatically have its registration cancelled and thus (by Hong Kong law) become unlawful.\n\nThe effects of such action by the Government would probably be these. 1. Some of the private Vernacular schools now in unsatisfactory premises would be able to improve them sufficiently. Others would be able to move to better premises. In the slums, however, there... \n\n74 \n18 \n\nand the tact needed for leadership in a rather difficult situation—these are the qualities required. If a knowledge of Chinese can be thrown in, so much the better, but it is not indispensable. If a really first-rate Senior Inspector can be found in this way, he should, as soon as he has had time to master the facts of the situation, be made Director and given the task of reforming Hong Kong's educational system. Later it might be desirable to bring a fairly junior Cadet into the office as second-in-command, to succeed eventually to the Directorship, but the possibility of an appointment to the Directorship from the ranks of the teaching profession in Hong Kong should not be ruled out. The possibilities of the future may well, however, be left to look after themselves, provided only that the much-needed innovation be made now which has been recommended above. Hong Kong badly needs effective educational leadership and a clearly understood policy pursued continuously for a reasonable length of time. These things will be lacking, as they are now, as long as the head of the Department is an official who knows nothing about education and is transferred to another post as soon as he begins to learn something.\n\nThere are, as already mentioned, four Chinese Inspectors and eight Sub-inspectors, and these are responsible for the inspection of Vernacular schools—i.e., schools in which the medium of instruction is Chinese. These twelve men had in 1934, according to the latest figures available at the time of writing, 915 schools on their lists. In addition, one of the Chinese Inspectors was responsible for the inspection of 119 private schools in which the medium of instruction was English. Judged by home standards, this inspecting staff should be more than ample for the work. But of course conditions are different in important respects; it is understood, for example, that in the New Territories the chief task of the Sub-inspectors is to act as peripatetic \"normal masters\" in the private Vernacular schools—in other words, to teach the teachers in those schools, not all of whom have been through the Government Normal School. This is a task which is not a usual part of an Inspector's work at home. On the other hand, the Colony is small and no Chinese Inspector or Sub-inspector can have any great distances to travel. Taking everything into account, it seems that a reduction of the number of Sub-inspectors to six would not be unreasonable, and would constitute a useful economy to set off against any additional expenditure which may be incurred in other directions.\n\n| Position        | Number |\n|---------------|--------|\n| Chinese Inspectors | 4      |\n| Sub-inspectors  | 8      |\n\nThe Board of Education consists of the Director, who is Chairman, the Senior Inspectors of English Schools and of Vernacular Schools as ex-officio members, and of eleven other gentlemen. It would be a valuable improvement if the Board could include in future at least one woman with some knowledge of educational problems in general and in particular of those concerning especially the education of girls.\n\nThe functions of the Board are purely consultative, but this does not mean that they are not of considerable importance. The Board is a permanent institution: Directors have been coming and going all too rapidly, so that the relationship between the Chairman and the other members has certainly not been that between an expert and a number of amateurs. The Board met only three times in 1933. A meeting once a quarter or even every other month should not make excessive demands on members' time, and would enable them to keep in closer touch with developments and to exercise their proper influence more effectively.\n\n19 \n75 \n* Annual Report on the Social and Economic Progress of the People of the Colony of Hong Kong during the year 1933.",
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        "content_text": "## V. TEACHERS-RECRUITMENT AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE\n\nTeachers in Hong Kong are recruited from the following sources:\n\n(a) In Government schools, the teachers are on the permanent establishment of the Civil Service. The Europeans are usually graduates of English or Scottish Universities and have received their training at home. The Chinese are graduates of Hong Kong University and have been trained there, though there are older teachers whose service began before the existence of the University's Training Department.\n\n(b) In the Grant-Aided schools, the staff consists of Certificated Teachers, Passed Student Teachers, and Student Teachers. The Grant Code lays it down that a **Certificated Teacher** means one who is recognised as such by the English Board of Education, or who has qualifications which, in the opinion of the Director, are practically equivalent. A **Student Teacher** is defined as a Teacher who is studying at one of the Teachers' Classes at the Technical Institute, or at any similar Class approved by the Director, and a **Passed Student Teacher** as a Teacher who has passed the final examination there, or who has qualifications which, in the opinion of the Director, are practically equivalent. The Student Teachers and Passed Student Teachers are almost invariably ex-pupils of Government or Grant-in-Aid schools who have matriculated but have not studied at any University; in other words, their status is that of Uncertificated Teachers at home. The Certificated Teachers, most of whom naturally are Europeans, have varied qualifications and experience behind them; many of them are members of religious orders.\n\n(c) The teachers in private Vernacular schools, like those in private preparatory schools at home, may have been trained anywhere or nowhere, may have much culture or very little, and long experience or none. Their earnings are sometimes less than those of a coolie. In the New Territories, a good many private schools are conducted by Chinese men who have been trained free of charge at the Government's Vernacular Normal School at Taipo. There is also a Vernacular Normal School for Women at which the fees are only $2 (about 3s. 6d.) per month.\n\nTaking these several categories of teachers in turn, European male graduates employed in Government schools are on a sterling salary scale rising in 13 years from £500 to £950. In addition, they and their families receive certain medical privileges and are allowed home leave, with free first-class passages, at a rate which, under present regulations, amounts to about nine months, including the time occupied in travelling to and from England, at the end of four years' service. Their hours of work and length of holidays are substantially the same as those in elementary schools at home. They pay no direct taxes. Clearly, such terms of service are attractive, but there are disadvantages. The climate of Hong Kong in the summer months can be extremely unpleasant and trying to nerves and health. The cost of living is high in some respects, especially in rent, though senior teachers can usually secure Government houses at a rent of six per cent. of their salaries, and service is cheap. Children cannot be kept in the Colony after the age of about nine without risk of detriment to their health; this inevitably means expense for the parents in making provision for them in England. The purchasing power of their salaries decreases when the value of sterling falls in terms of dollars, as has been happening recently. Whenever this happens, the risk of succumbing to the dangers inherent in the **chit system**, which prevails in India, in Ceylon, and in all British communities in the Far East, is obviously increased.\n\nEuropean women teachers are on a salary scale of £360 to £700, with the same leave rights as men. For both sexes, the scales seem ample and make it reasonable to require of the teachers a high standard of efficiency and of devotion to duty.\n\nThe Chinese male teachers in Government service start at $900, or $1,800 if they are University-trained graduates, rising in either case to $6,000. The women teachers start at $720 or $1,820 and rise in either case to $3,000 (though it is written $8,000). It being certainly true that any given salary in Hong Kong is worth more to a Chinese than to a European, these scales of pay are high enough, and could probably have been put somewhat lower without any consequent falling off in the quality of recruits. There are Government scholarships given annually to intending teachers to maintain them at the University—their amount is sufficient for that purpose. On the whole, the training given to these Chinese graduate teachers is satisfactory, but in certain...\n\nPage 70\nPage 71",
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        "content_text": "## respects it could be improved without any serious difficulty. \nIt would be a great benefit if they could be made competent instructors in Physical Training, and there are, it is understood, no important obstacles to prevent this being done. The benefit would be shared with their pupils by the teachers themselves. Further, the number of these teachers recruited annually is small, so it should be easy for the Inspectors to keep an eye on them during their school-practice and also during their first year of service. At present, they are merely passed or failed in practical teaching by certain lead Masters nominated for the purpose by the University. Nor is it desirable, for obvious reasons, that teaching practice should be confined, as it is at present, to one school where the Head Master happens to be Master of Method in the University Training Department. Complaints are heard frequently that these Chinese teachers are weak disciplinarians. A less limited experience of teaching during their training, and a careful supervision of this by the Inspectors, should do something towards remedying this weakness. And a teacher really competent in Physical Training gains a degree of confidence in himself which goes with him quite naturally from the gymnasium or playground into the class-room.\n\nIt was noticed by the writer that Chinese men and women teaching in English often spoke that language most imperfectly, being, in extreme instances, difficult to understand. The importance of this is obvious, for it is usually from these teachers and not from Europeans—at any rate in Government schools—that the Chinese pupils begin to acquire their pronunciation of English, forming sometimes faulty speech-habits which it is very difficult to eradicate later.\n\nIt is true that the University-trained teachers usually attain a respectable standard in the oral use of English, as indeed they should after ten or twelve years of hearing and speaking that language, but even they are apt to deteriorate instead of improving as English speakers during their teaching careers. This is undoubtedly due in some measure to the racial segregation practised in the Government schools and sometimes in the Grant-in-Aid schools. European and Chinese teachers have separate common rooms, with the result that, although working daily in the same buildings, their social intercourse is very slight indeed. This seems regrettable for both parties. It is, as is well known, in accordance with the general British custom in the East, which is not the custom of the French. This is not the place to argue about the reasons for this custom or about its merits and demerits, but it may well be doubted whether its observance in schools is consistent with the open-minded and receptive spirit which should inform any educational institution, or is in the real interests either of the Chinese or of the Europeans. The better that the two can know each other, the better chance there is of a bi-lingual system of education working successfully.\n\nFurther, the writer was forced with regret to the opinion that there is in the atmosphere of Hong Kong's scholastic world something unfavourable to the zeal and legitimate ambitions of young teachers. This something is difficult to define, but its consequence is clear enough—a young teacher begins perhaps with plenty of enthusiasm for his work, finds that this enthusiasm brings him more snubs than encouragement from his seniors, and tends therefore quite naturally to content himself with a merely routine attention to his profession, reserving his energies for employment in his leisure. The remedy for this is in great measure in the hands of the teachers themselves, and it is believed that something is already being done by a Teachers' Association in the Colony to encourage the younger members of the profession to contribute nothing less than their best to its all-important work. Something further can be done by authority. It should be a well-understood rule that seniority cannot be regarded as giving a right to promotion, regardless of merit; plainly the claims of seniority cannot be ignored, but those of proved zeal and ability should not be ignored either, and the possessors of those qualities should not be disqualified for promotion by comparative youth. A unified education service in Hong Kong and Malaya, if this could be achieved, would be of great value in opening a wider field of opportunity to youthful energy and enthusiasm. Hong Kong is small enough to be somewhat stuffy, and there are good grounds for the opinion that young teachers, both Chinese and European, need to be convinced that in their profession no doors will remain closed too long to genuine merit.\n\nTurning to the Grant-in-Aid schools, their Certificated Teachers are appointed and paid by those responsible for the conduct of the schools, and the Government's Education Department is concerned only with the efficiency of their work. This, as far as can be judged on incomplete evidence, is not notably below the standard found in Government schools, though the Grant-in-Aid teachers receive lower salaries and teach rather larger classes. The arrangements for the training of the Student Teachers employed in these schools at the Technical Institute have already been mentioned; they are in the main satisfactory, but if time continues to be given, as it has been given, to English Literature, it is very important that the subject should be treated in such a way as to rouse in the students an interest which they will want to communicate to their pupils, and to connect the study of the best literature of the past with the living language as spoken and written to-day. It was pointed out by the writer during his visit that this is unlikely to be achieved by a treatment following at all closely the lines of a History of Literature, with its habit of bringing too much into prominence such abstractions as \"tendencies,\" \"development,\" \"influences,\" etc.\n\nFor the training of the teachers in private Vernacular schools, very little is done, except in the rural areas of the New Territories, and in present conditions very little can be done. These schools appear and disappear in an incalculable manner, obtaining their staffs, perhaps, from whatever branches of commerce are least flourishing at the moment. It is a great weakness in Hong Kong's system that so much of the Colony's primary education is carried on in institutions as ill-staffed and ill-housed as these schools frequently are. If the remedy advocated in Chapters II and IV of this Report is applied, there will be a new demand for trained Chinese teachers. Until the extent of that demand can be determined, it will best be met by an expansion of the existing classes in the Technical Institute for the training of teachers. Eventually a new Government Normal School, or considerable additions to the present premises, may be necessary.",
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        "content_text": "# VI. SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS\n\nIt has already been stated in this Report that the Government and Grant-in-Aid schools, in which alone a system of education can be found, work on a bi-lingual plan. This is the so-called \"pari passu\" system, and is intended to ensure satisfactory progress being made by all pupils in both Chinese and English. There seems serious reason to doubt whether this object is in fact attained. Without doubt many pupils leave the schools with something less than a really good knowledge of English, particularly as regards their ability to speak it and to understand it when spoken to them. There is also some doubt whether, in many instances, their knowledge of Chinese can be regarded as satisfactory. The writer was unable to form any opinion on this matter by direct personal investigation; it is to be regretted that his ignorance of Chinese is shared by most of the lead Teachers. In fact, it is believed that no British Head Teacher in a Government school would claim more than a slight knowledge of that language. This means of course that the pupil's progress in Chinese can only be assessed by the Chinese staff. These teachers are under a very great temptation to report that progress as satisfactory, whether in truth it is so or not. It is no disparagement of them as a body to remark that when a number of human beings are subjected to great temptation, some of them usually succumb. It is also important to note that the demand for English in the schools springs from quite different motives from the demand for Chinese. The former demand comes from parents and pupils, and the motive is utilitarian and vocational. The latter demand comes, or came, from educationists in the Colony, both English and Chinese, and is justified by the argument that any education is culturally inadequate which does not give the pupil a good knowledge of his native language and at least some acquaintance with its literature. Regrettably, perhaps, this argument appears to carry little weight with parents and pupils. Evidence is overwhelming that English is studied with far more zeal than Chinese.\n\nIt is not necessary here to argue the general claims of vocation against those of culture in education. The opposition between the two is to some extent artificial. The writer of this Report is content to submit, as the basis of the recommendations which follow, the proposition that where attendance at schools is voluntary, the wishes of parents and pupils regarding the curriculum of the schools must carry great weight. In Malaya the language problem is solved, for the large Chinese population in Singapore and other towns, in summary fashion. English is the medium of instruction for all subjects, and Chinese is taught, if at all, as the second language. The justification offered is that the pupils come from all parts of China and speak many different forms of Chinese.\n\nIt is not suggested that this solution should be adopted in Hong Kong—among other objections to it there is the fear, expressed to the writer by certain educationists in Malaya, that the pupils learn no language well enough to think easily in it.\n\nIt is recommended **(a)** that the teaching of English in the schools of Hong Kong should be reformed on a frankly utilitarian basis, i.e., that the pupils should be taught to understand, speak, read, and write such and so much English as they are likely to need for their subsequent careers, and no more. This means that for most of them at any rate no time would be given to the study of English literature, except for such examples of modern English prose as may be needed to serve as models. A much simplified vocabulary and grammar, such as are provided in, for example, `Basic English`, would suffice.\n\nThis should set free a certain amount of time. It will have to be very carefully considered **(b)** whether that time should be given in part or wholly to further instruction in the Chinese language or through the medium of that language, **(c)** how much instruction should be given, to pupils who are believed for the most part not to want it, in the Chinese classics, and **(d)** whether the Chinese medium of instruction should be Cantonese, as at present, or Kwok Yu, which, it is understood, the Government of China wishes to establish as the universal spoken language throughout China.\n\nThese are questions which a visitor to the Colony, ignorant of Chinese, cannot be expected to settle. He can only suggest that educational policy in the Colony should be gradually re-orientated so as eventually to secure for the pupils, first, a command of their own language sufficient for all needs of thought and expression, and secondly, a command of English limited to the satisfaction of vocational demands.\n\nOther recommendations made in the course of this Report are here summarised for convenient reference:\n\n1. That the School Certificate Examination should be taken a year or two earlier than at present, so that more of the pupils may sit for it [Chapter II (4)].\n2. That the course leading up to that Examination should be planned as something complete in itself, and not chiefly as a stage on the way to Matriculation [Chapter II (3) and (4)].\n3. That the syllabus should be simplified so as to bring success in the Examination within the compass of the average pupil.\n4. That adequate allowance should be made in Time-Tables for Physical Training, which should take place regularly, preferably daily for all pupils and that time should also be allowed for any other activities, such as music, the inclusion of which may seem desirable [Chapters II (4) and IV].\n5. That eventually the inclusion of adequate Physical Training in the Time-Table should be compulsory in all Government Schools, and a condition for the payment of Grant in Grant-Aided Schools.\n6. That the necessary arrangements should be made for securing teachers competent to instruct in Physical Training [Chapter IV].\n7. That there should be Health Code for private schools, with a time-limit for compliance [Chapter IV].\n8. That the Government should without avoidable delay build model primary schools where most needed in the urban areas [Chapters I, II (8), and IV], and recruit and train the teachers required [Chapter V].\n9. 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        "content_text": "## ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION IN THE COLONIES\n\n84\n\n32\n\nExtract from Minutes of 61st Meeting held on \n20th June, 1935.\n\n### 6 Hong Kong: Report of Mr. Burney's Visit\n(A.C.E.C.13/35)\n\nMr. Burney made an introductory statement regarding his Report. After referring to his classification of the schools into (a) Government schools, (b) grant-aided schools, and (c) other schools, he mentioned that in 13 of the grant-aided schools English was the chief medium of instruction, while in about 900 subsidized schools (300 of which were grant-aided) the medium was a vernacular language. The vernacular schools constituted substantially the colony's equipment for primary education, and that equipment was far from satisfactory. Health conditions in the schools were bad, there was considerable danger of loss of life from fire.",
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        "content_text": "## Training of Teachers\n\n85 much fire in many of them, and most of the teachers were entirely untrained. The teaching profession was unsatisfactory. In some of the schools, however, the standard was now beginning to improve. The pupils were learning to read properly, and to use the Arabic notation in arithmetic instead of the abacus. For the most part, however, too much time was devoted to studying the Chinese characters and Classics, without any instruction in their meaning.\n\nThe Government and Grant-Aided schools had done some good work, but had concentrated upon the Hong Kong matriculation examination; but the School Certificate Examination was now to take the place both of this and of the Cambridge Junior certificate examination. This change was open to the objection that the education policy was being framed for a minority. A larger proportion could sit for the School Certificate examination. Concentration on work for this examination was unsatisfactory; it did not, for example, allow time for craft-work, or for domestic science for girls. A curriculum in which approximately half the available time was given to one foreign language was not well planned, and, in any case, the training in English was not in all respects satisfactory.\n\nTeachers were either graduates who had had an ordinary training themselves or Chinese teachers. The training of teachers was undertaken by these graduates and by Chinese teachers. Some of the latter were graduates of Hong Kong University, but there were others whose only training had been that given in the Evening Institutes. In Grant-Aided schools, a great many teachers were in Holy Orders and their training would vary according to their order.",
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        "content_text": "## 86\n\n**Direction and Control:**\n\nOwing to the system of selecting cadets for the post of Director of Education, there had been frequent changes of Directors in the last ten years. This was to be regretted, for as soon as a Director had acquired a knowledge of the work, he was transferred to another post. Mr. Burney had suggested to the Governor, who had agreed, that the best person who could be obtained from any source should be appointed to the vacant post of Senior Inspector, and that this officer should later be promoted to the Directorship of Education.\n\n**Girls' Education.** Mr. Burney explained that he had not dealt separately with the subject of girls' education in the Report because he did not think the difference in needs between girls' and boys' was one of the more important features in the situation in Hong Kong. He had thought of recommending the appointment of a second English Inspector to be a woman instead of a man, but did not wish to overcrowd his recommendations.\n\nThe matter was then discussed at length, the chief points of the discussion being summarised in the Committee's conclusion, recorded below.\n\n**Conclusion.** The Committee noted that the Report had not yet been referred to the Government of Hong Kong, but that they would be afforded a further opportunity of comment when the Governor's recommendations thereon had been received by the Secretary of State. In the meantime, they recommended that the following statement",
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        "content_text": "87 \n\n**Statement of their preliminary views should be conveyed by the Secretary of State to the Governor when forwarding the Report:**\n\n(a) The Committee, as at present advised, agree substantially with Mr. Burney's recommendations:\n\n(b) With regard to recommendations (1), (2), and (3) in the Summary of the Report, the Committee make the reservation that they have not been able, in the time at their disposal, to study fully all the implications of Mr. Burney's recommendations.\n\nThe main object of these appears to be to provide a suitable course for pupils who leave school at 16 and do not proceed to the University, and with this object the Committee are in sympathy:\n\n(c) Without seeking to disparage the work done by the various Directors of Education in the past, and while realising that there may be strong arguments, on other than educational grounds, in favour of the system of appointing a Cadet, the Committee consider that, on purely educational grounds, the appointment of a professional Director of Education is now desirable:\n\n(a) They are disposed, on their present information, to agree with Mr. Burney's recommendation that a Senior Inspector with the best qualifications should be specially selected for service with the Hong Kong Education Department and should be eligible for promotion to the Directorship:\n\n(3) They are also inclined to favour the suggestion made orally by Mr. Burney at the meeting for the appointment of a woman as the second English Inspector:",
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        "content_text": "(f) In view of the importance of China to Hong Kong as a field of employment for Chinese who have been educated in the Colony, the Committee recognise the importance of maintaining cordial relations between the Universities in Hong Kong and South China.\n\n88",
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        "content_text": "## C. O.\n\nMr. Gent  \n1876  \nMr. Mayhew 1-6  \nMr. Cowell  \nMr. Parkinson.  \nSir G. Tomlinson  \n19  \n53581/35. Hong Kong.  \nDowning Street,  \nSir C. Bottomley.  \nSz  \nSir J. Shuckburgh.  \n22 June, 1935.  \nPermt. U.S. of S.  \nParly. U.S. of S.  \nSecretary of State.  \n**DRAFT**  \nTHE SECRETARY,  \nBOARD OF EDUCATION.\n\n2.584  \n(No.3 in  \n33849/34  \nH.K.)  \nCopy. H.H. 38.  \nSir,  \n\nWith reference to your letter of the 19th of October, No.160(2)13, regarding the loan of the services of Mr. E. Burney, M.C. to visit Hong Kong and report upon the educational system in that Colony, I am directed to request you to inform the Board of Education that Mr. Burney has now submitted his report on his mission and I am to transmit to you a copy of a letter which has been addressed to him from this Department. A copy of the report will be transmitted to you as soon as it is in print.\n\nTo. Mr. Burney 22.6.35.  \n**FURTHER ACTION**  \n\n2.",
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        "content_text": "# C. O.\n\n## Mr. Gent. 1876\n\n53581/35. Hong Kong. 28 91\n\nDowning Street, 22 June, 1935.\n\n**DRAFT. for conson.**\n\nE. BURNEY, ESQ. M. C.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed, etc., to acknowledge the receipt of the Report which you have signed and submitted on the Education system in the Colony of Hong Kong, and I am to express to you his warm appreciation of the service which you have been good enough to render in this matter.\n\n## FURTHER ACTION.\n\n2. As soon as your Report is printed Mr. MacDonald proposes to give instructions that it shall be communicated to the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong, and he will, in consultation with the Colonial Government,\n\n| Name | Title |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. Mayhew |  |\n| Mr. Cowell. |  |\n| Mr. Parkinson. |  |\n| Sir G. Tomlinson |  |\n| Sir C. Bottomley. |  |\n| Sir J. Shuckburgh. |  |\n| Permt. U.S. of S. |  |\n| Parly. U.S. of S. |  |\n| Secretary of State. |  |\n\nCopy. H.K. 39. 29 \nbony to Bd. Edua",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n26-93\n`A.C.E.C. 13/35`\n\n## ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION IN THE COLONIES\n\nI circulate herewith proof copies of the Report by Mr. E. Burney on Education in Hong Kong. The Report has not yet been communicated to the Hong Kong Government and must for the present be treated as a confidential document.\n\nMr. Burney will make a statement on his visit to Hong Kong at the forthcoming meeting of the Committee, and proof copies of the Report in its present form are accordingly circulated for members' convenience.\n\nIt is desired that the copies of the proof should be returned to me at the conclusion of the meeting. Final copies of the printed Report will be made available in due course.\n\nColonial Office,  \n14th June, 1935.\n\nA.H. POYNTON  \nOfficial Secretary",
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        "content_text": "## \nfunnel copies originally intended.\n\n96\n\nThe points raised in\n\nAs regards\n\nwe\n\ndo not wish that\n\nper minute\n\nunder\n\nrepereme,\n\nany\n\ncopies of\n\n← which has not yet been seen The Report should be\n\nby line to be\n\nsold to members up to the\n\npublic unless\n\nJ\n\nMeanwhile\n\n+ other\n\nto that effect care permission is forthcoming\n\nFrom Hung Hom\n\nSuch\n\nM\n\nor The S.U.P.S.\n\nhave to be\n\ncopies, sent to Libraries\n\nshould be clearly marked\n\n**Confidential**\n\non\n\nThe\n\ncover\n\nconcerned should\n\nbe\n\nsent\n\nThe books\n\nasked to\n\ncomment urgently, Presumably the distribution\n\nis to be deferred for the present at any rate.\n\nThe\n\ncorrected\n\nproof\n\nwill\n\nbe returned\n\nfor Final printing direct to Waterlow when\n\nit has been approved.\n\nG.R.J. Gent\n\nEastern Dept.\n\nColonial Office.\n\nJune 14, 1935",
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        "content_text": "## C. O.\n\nMr. Laki Jant.\n\nMr.\nMr.\n\n45\nMr. Parkinson\nSir G. Tomlinson.\nSir C. Bottomley.\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\nPermt. U.S. of S.\nParly. U.S. of S. Secretary of State.\n\n53581/35 N.K.\n\nTo go 18-day-\n4.\n2397\nS.o. In 1h. Pow's Lug.!\n\nSz\nSux\n\nDowning St., \nWHL 7 May 1935\n\nDan Barney,\nDRAFT. Cons.\nof your\nvceurd\n\nE. Burney, Eng., M.C. Lysent.\n\n2 prof coquis (With me\n(14.)\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\ncould\nI enclose too\non King Repent, which we\nform\nugu\nhave just\nthe printers. If you\nreturn\nany points seeding\nfinal print duly\none\nespay with\nconnectin\nmarked\nin the\nwe should\nI like to\nWe should be still\nbu\ngrateful\ngeslepent of\nyou\nhave the copy\ncontoh let us\nby the 6th init if\npossith,\nback as wook as possabite\nof that will express our having topic of the finns\nAdvisory Committee\n\n· Drink / sand\nin\nKim for the Common detay out\n\n## Reconstructed Version\n\nC. O.\n\nMr. Laki Jant.\n\n45 Mr. Parkinson\nSir G. Tomlinson.\nSir C. Bottomley.\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\nPermt. U.S. of S.\nParly. U.S. of S. Secretary of State.\n\n53581/35 N.K.\n\nTo go 18-day-4.\n2397 S.o. In 1h. Pow's Lug.!\n\nDowning St., \nWHL 7 May 1935\n\nDan Barney,\n**DRAFT. Cons.** of your vceurd\n\nE. Burney, Eng., M.C. Lysent. 2 prof coquis (With me (14.))\n\n## FURTHER ACTION\nI could enclose too on King Repent, which we have just received from the printers. If you return any points needing final print duly marked in the one espay with connectin, we should be grateful. I like to have the copy back as soon as possabite by the 6th init if possith, of that will express our having topic of the finns Advisory Committee.\n\n· Drink / sand in Kim for the Common detay out",
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        "content_text": "G/Hong Kong 69361\nCS/HBC.\n\nMr. Gent,\n\n**RECEIVED**\n3 JUN 1935\n6. O. REGY\n\nColonial Service Department,\nColonial Office.\n\n21 99 16\n35\n\nReferring to Colonial Office letter of the 23rd May, No.53581/5, and your telephone message of the 29th May, the two final proof copies of Mr. Burney's Report on Education in Hong Kong will be delivered to you by hand by Messrs. Waterlow & Sons Ltd. on Tuesday next, 4th June. Provided approval can be given within three days from that date the printers have promised to have the 125 copies ordered ready by the 12th June, as desired.\n\n**Stores Department, Crown Agents' Office.**\n1st June, 1935.",
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        "content_text": "O/Misc.214/5\n\nMr. Gent.\n\n20\n100\n(16)\n\nWith reference to Colonial Office letter dated 23rd May, No.53581/35, and our telephone conversation to-day, we note that you do not wish the selling price to be shown on the Report on Education in Hong Kong, but that the following imprint should appear:\n\n**Published on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong**\n**by the**\n**Crown Agents for the Colonies**\n**4 Millbank,**\n**London, S.W.1.**\n**1935**\n\nWe understand that you wish us to distribute copies as follows:\n\n| Destination | Number of Copies |\n| --- | --- |\n| The Secretary of State, Colonial Office, Downing St., S.W.1. | 50 |\n| The Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong | 50 |\n| The Crown Agents for the Colonies, 4 Millbank, S.W.1. | 18 |\n| The Secretary, Board of Education, Whitehall, S.W.1. | 1 |\n| The Clerk in Charge, Copyright Receipt Office, British Museum, W.C.1. | 1 |\n| The Librarian, Bodleian Library, Oxford | 1 |\n| Cambridge University Library | 1 |\n| National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh | 1 |\n| Library of Trinity College, Dublin | 1 |\n| National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth | 1 |\n\nIn accordance with Colonial Regulations.\n\nWill you please let us know in due course whether copies may be sold by us and if so at what price. We assume that you will supply 30 copies to the Advisory Committee on Education (as provided in Colonial Regulations) from the 50 required by the Colonial Office.\n\nDepartment, CROWN AGENTS,\n30th May, 1935.\n\nPage 90\nPage 91",
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        "content_text": "27/5/95\n\nTel. Alderley. 369.\n\nStrathnarn  \nAlderley Edge  \n18 Manchester\n\nThe Winter  \nSearching of State  \nColonial Office  \nReference `33849/34`\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to send you herewith a Report on the Educational System of Hong Kong, written after my recent visit to that Colony. I would like to express my gratitude for all the facilities placed at my disposal during my enquiry, and particularly for the help given to me by Sir **G. R.**",
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        "content_text": "102\n\nI was assisted by Mr. E. T. C. Sagen, Director of Education, and by Mr. A. R. Sutherland, I.S.D., at that time Inspector of English Schools in the Colony.\n\nI also received much helpful advice with no little help from Sir William Hornell, Vice Chancellor of Hong Kong University, from Professor Forster, and from other members of the University staff.\n\nFinally, it would be graceless indeed to make no mention of the most generous hospitality which I received from H. E. the Governor and from many residents in the Colony.\n\nYours faithfully,  \nE. Burnet",
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        "content_text": "# No 136.\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, \nHONGKONG, 5th March, 1935.\n\n## 105 \n## 12 \n\nSir, \n\nWith reference to my despatch No.118 of the 27th February, 1935, regarding the visit to Hong Kong of Mr. E. Burney, M.C., I have the honour to inform you that sums totalling H.K.$330 were advanced to Mr. Burney for his personal expenses while in the Colony.\n\n2. Mr. Burney undertook to repay these advances on his return to London or to agree to their deduction from the honorarium to be paid to him on the conclusion of his mission.\n\n3. I shall be glad if the Crown Agents for the Colonies may be instructed to adjust this payment at the rate of exchange of the day.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient, humble servant, \n**Governor, &c.**\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE \n**SIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P., &c., &c., &c.**",
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        "content_text": "53581/35\n\n9 107\n\nColonial Office,\nDowning Street, S.W.1\n18 April, 1935.\n\nDear Burney,\n\nI am sorry that I was on leave when you returned to this country, and very much hope that you had an interesting visit to Hong Kong and that you kept fit and well. I had news of you from time to time from friends of mine there, and also two snapshots of you at the helm of a sailing boat.\n\nWe are having the draft Report typed, and as soon as a copy is ready, I will send you one for you to put in final order for formal submission to the Secretary of State.\n\nWe are now getting on with the question of money. As regards the balance of the honorarium, we will tell the Crown Agents to pay to you what is due after taking into account what you have already received in Hong Kong.\n\nI am afraid we have no information as ... but it is possible that they may \n\nE. BURNEY, ESQ.",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nMay I finally congratulate you on your joining the Standing Advisory Committee here. I hope that this will mean that I shall have future opportunities of meeting you.\n\nYours sincerely,\nsny.\n\n108",
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        "content_text": "# No 118.\n\nSir,\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, \nHONGKONG.; 27th February, 1935.\n\n109\n\nWith reference to your despatch No.451 of the 6th December, 1934, regarding the visit to Hong Kong of Mr. E. Burney, M.C., I have the honour to inform you that Mr. Burney left the Colony by s.s. \"Rajputana\" on the 23rd February, 1935. I shall await with interest the receipt of his report.\n\n2. In the course of his enquiry Mr. Burney paid short visits to Canton and Shanghai, in order to obtain first-hand information regarding the educational systems of those municipalities.\n\n3. I shall be glad if the thanks of this Government may be conveyed to the Board of Education for the loan of the services of this able officer.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient, humble servant, \n**Governor, &c.**\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE \nSIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P., \n&C., \n&C., \n&C.",
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        "content_text": "(R3038) Wt 8091/24866 10,000(2) 1/34 H & SP Gp 640\n\n## BOARD OF EDUCATION,\nWHITEHALL, LONDON, S.W.1.\n\n**MEMORANDUM**\n\nFrom | To\n---|---\n | The Under Secretary of State, The Colonial Office, Downing Street, S.W.1. \nDate | Copy to\n29th March, 1935. | H. Kong\n\nH.M. Inspector, Mr. E. Burney, of this Department was lent to the Government of Hong Kong from 12th December 1934 to 22nd March 1935 inclusive. The amount recoverable by the Board is £269: 16: 5 made up as follows:-\n\n| Description | Amount\n|---|---\nSalary (at £790: 9: -, on 12 December 1934 and £819: 11: - from 1 February 1935) from 12 December to 22 March 1935 | £224:17: \nplus 20% for preservation of Pension Rights | £44:19: 5\n**Total** | **£269:16:5**\n\nIt is requested that you will be good enough to cause H.M. Paymaster General to transfer this sum to the credit of the Vote of the Board of Education.\n\nA Receivable Order is enclosed.\n\nRECEIVED - 1 APR 1935  \nThe Accountant-General's Department, C. REGY (Division II).",
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        "content_text": "26/3/35\n\n## STRATHNARN\n\n**RECEIVED**  \n28 MAR 1935  \n**ALDERLEY EDGE Manchester**  \n114  \n**END**  \na. Q, REG! \n\nDear Gent,\n\nI have returned from Hong Kong, and am completing the draft of my Report. Can you see Savage, the Board's Senior Chief Inspector, on Apr. 3rd at 5.15.\n\nI would also like to have a word with you before my Report is typed (have hand-written it in haste). Can you give me an appointment either on the 4th or maybe before? \n\nLady Satterthwaite wishes to be remembered to you.\n\nYours sincerely,  \nE. Bunyard",
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        "content_text": "Head 11. POST OFFICE AND WIRELESS\n\nHead 11.-POST OFFICE AND WIRELESS\n\nApproved Estimate, 1931.\n\nEstimate, 1932.\n\nApproved Estimate, 1931.\n\nEstimate, 1932.\n\nHead 11.-POST OFFICE AND WIRELESS\n\nPOST OFFICE,—Continued.\n\n$\n\n(4)-POST OFFICE.\n\nSub-heads :—\n\nI Personal Emoluments\n\n278,345\n\n297,932\n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS,-Continued.\n\nBrought forward\n\n146,968\n\n162,272\n\nOther Charges\n\n2 Carriage of Mails:-\n\nTransit Charges\n\nNUMBERS.\n\n100,000\n\n115,000\n\n(1)\n\n3 Cleansing Materials, Utensils and Washing\n\n1,200\n\n1,400\n\n(2)\n\n1931\n\n1932\n\n4 Coolie Hire\n\n400\n\n400\n\n5 Incidental Expenses\n\n1,000\n\n1,000\n\n6 Mail Bags, Parcel Boxes, Date Stamps and Scales\n\n5,000\n\n6,000\n\n(1)\n\n7 Printing\n\n500\n\n500\n\n8 Rent of Branch Offices..\n\n960\n\n960\n\n16 Class V Postal Clerks,\n\nand Shroff's\n\n47 Class VI Postal Clerks, and Shroffs.........\n\n($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually) ($480 to $1,050 by 1 increment of $60,1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100)... \n\n21,526\n\n21,623 (1)\n\n9 Stamps..\n\n9,000\n\n12,000\n\n(1)\n\nof $50 and 2 of $100)... \n\n38,992\n\n10 Telegrams\n\n400\n\n400\n\n6\n\n6\n\nLearners, at $420 each\n\n2,800\n\n40,612 (1) (2)\n\n2,520 (3)\n\n11 Transport\n\n12 Uniform and Equipment\n\n1,500\n\n9,600\n\n1,500\n\n4\n\n4\n\n11,000\n\n(1)\n\n1\n\n1\n\n11\n\n11\n\nLaunch Officers, ($1,550 to $2,100 by $50 annually) Head Postman. ($475 to $600 by $25 annually).......... | Postmen, 1st Class, ($350 to $450 by $20 annually)\n\nDo, Rent Allowances at $48 each\n\n6,997\n\n7,197\n\n600\n\n600\n\n363\n\n(1)\n\n4,832\n\n4,892\n\n(1)\n\n528\n\n528\n\n70\n\n2\n\n70\n\n| Postmen, 2nd Class, ($276 to $348 by $12 annually)....\n\n22,202\n\n22,585\n\nSPECIAL EXPENDITURE.\n\n67\n\n67\n\n13 Pillar and Letter Boxes\n\n500\n\nDo..\n\n500\n\nTotal Post Office\n\n+\n\n2\n\n108,405\n\n448,592\n\n16\n\n16\n\nNUMBERS.\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\nRent Allowances, at $48 each Mail Bag Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially),\n\nDo..\n\nRent Allowances to 50 at $48 each, and $87 at $24 each Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n\nDo..\n\nDo., 3rd Class, ($204 to $264 by $12 annually)......\n\ne\n\n16,085\n\n16,275\n\n1,488\n\n4,488\n\n311\n\n312\n\n(4)\n\n96\n\n96\n\n2,496\n\n2,497\n\n| (1)\n\n1931 1932 !\n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.\n\nRent Allowances to 10 at $48 each and 6 at $24 each. Overtime Allowances to Clerical Staff, Postmen and Coolies\n\n624\n\n624\n\n: !\n\nI\n\n}\n\nPostmaster General..\n\nCarpenter, ($300 to $360 by $12 annually)\n\n| (8)\n\nI\n\n1\n\n1\n\n1\n\nAccountant (£820 to £1,050 by 7 of £30 and 1 of £20)\n\nPainter, ($324 to $384 by $12 annually). Acting Pay\n\n8,050 360 384\n\n8,050\n\n360\n\n384\n\n2,017\n\n6) \n\n14,663\n\n20,130\n\n1\n\n1\n\nSuperintendent of Mails (£600 to £700 by £25 annually).......\n\n10,500\n\n1\n\nLanguage Allowance\n\n330\n\n14,000 330\n\n{axo\n\n4\n\n3\n\nAssistant Superintendents of Mails (1 at £460 to £560 by £20, 1 at $4,000 to $5,000 by $200 annually, at £250 to £445 by 6 of £15, 2 of £30 and 3 of £15).. \n\nTotal Personal Emoluments\n\n278,345\n\n297,982\n\n24,269\n\n5\n\nJ\n\nClass I Postal Clerks, ($3,500 to $4,500 by $200 annually)\n\n25,592\n\n(1)(4)(5)\n\n19,406\n\n8\n\n10\n\nClass II Postal Clerks, ($2,700 to $3,300 by $150 annually)\n\n20,406 (4)\n\n23,017\n\n1\n\n34\n\n13\n\nClass III Postal Clerks, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually)\n\n30,867 (4)(6)\n\n31,490\n\n29,437\n\nDo. Language Allowance to 1,\n\n(4)(7)\n\nSUMMARY\n\n1931.\n\n1932.\n\n240\n\n240\n\n12\n\n12\n\nClass IV Postal Clerks, į ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 and Compradore annually)\n\n21,053\n\n21,250\n\n(4)\n\nNo.\n\nNo.\n\nOther Charges\n\nSpecial Expenditure\n\n129,560 500\n\n150,100 500\n\nPersonal Emoluments (Head 11A)\n\n278,345\n\nI\n\nCarried forward\n\n297,932\n\n146,968\n\n162,272\n\n\"\n\nCadet Officers (see Head 2)..... 8. O. & A. Staff (see App. I... \n\n1\n\n23,200\n\n21,333\n\n(6)\n\n2\n\n17,200\n\n3\n\n29,621\n\n| (7) (8)\n\n(1) Lower rate of exchange.\n\n(2) Higher prices.\n\n(3) Under Cadet Service.\n\n(4) Stipulated increments.\n\n(5) One post abolished.\n\n(6) Two promoted from Class III.\n\n(7) Two promoted to Class III: one promoted from Class 1V.\n\n(1) Stipulated increments.\n\n(2) One promoted to higher Class.\n\n(3) One post at $700 replaced by one at $420.\n\n(4) New appointment.\n\n(5) Previously paid from Head 31, Miscellaneous Services.\n\n(6) Two thirds P. M. G's salary charged to A-Post Office; one third to R- Wireless.\n\n(7) Two thirds of salary of one charged to A-Post Office; one third to B-Wireless.\n\n(8) One post inadvertently omitted from 1931 Estimates,\n\nTotal\n\n448,805\n\n499,210\n\nPage 262\n\n23",
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        "content_text": "1 For TEL 120\n\nStates that the postage to Norway & China letters has been raised to 5 cents per ounce from 13/6/32. Requests that instruction be given to supply for delivery 6,000 sheets of five cent stamps.\n\nAllan 8.6.32\n\n? So instruct P.A. enclosing copy of (1) d copy of (1) to G.P.D. L.F. inf 8.6.34 Walder 9.6.34tom\n\nDESTROYED ORDER STATU A G.P.O. 16 JUN 1932\n\n- hel B.126 CA\n\nDESTROYED UNDER STATUTE\n\nHave served HK. illustrating them to quantity of 5 cents postage. Allantos 12,000. Preet ACCade 30.6.32\n\n? Puttoy the question 29.6.32 Etlalder. 1.7.32 tou\n\nlo\n\nG.P.D.",
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        "content_text": "RECEIVED\n\nCOPY FOR REGISTRATION:\n\n7 JUN 1932\n\nOFFICE\n\nTELEGRAM from the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 7 June 1932. Received 1.5 p.m. June 1932.\n\n(1) on 87492/31\n\n(additional)\n\nNo.120. My telegram of the 2nd March 1931; No.44.\n\nRevenue Proposals\n\nFollowing increase of Chinese domestic postal rates postage on letters to Macao and China proper has been raised from 4 to 5 cents per ounce from 13th June.\n\nPlease instruct the Crown Agents for the Colonies to supply for delivery in September 6,000 sheets of five cent stamps.\n\nEND\n\n92664",
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        "content_text": "213\n\nUnder-trouble. I telephoned because I had received a letter from Shanghai. I knew she was in Chan's house from her mother.\n\nI had first telephoned to her mother at the Natham Hotel, who told me where she was.\n\nThe letter was an ordinary letter from Shanghai. It was registered because my husband had to sign for it when the postman brought it. I can't remember whether it came that day or previously. It was addressed to someone care of Miss Lai.\n\nI can't read. The letter was sealed and opened by my husband, who used to translate telegrams for the accused and he used to open letters addressed to Miss Lai. I telephoned to her and heard her voice. I took the letter to 14 Shan Kwong Road, and handed it over to the servant at the door.\n\n(Corrected on re-reading:) This was about 15 minutes after the telephone message.\n\nI could not recognise the servant to whom I handed the letter.\n\nI had been to No.14 Shan Kwong Road before, when I took the money to Miss Lai, I refer to the $200. About 10 p.m. Miss Lai rang me up. I recognised her voice.\n\nThe accused was at home the night before the trouble.\n\nThat day he went out sometime after noon. He returned at about 10 p.m. That was after Miss Lai had telephoned.\n\nI told him Miss Lai had telephoned and what she said. (On re-reading the witness alters to \"I told him that George Fung had been shot\"). He then left the house and I closed the door. He stayed nearly 10 minutes in the house. He gave me no instructions. I did not see what he did. I did not telephone to anyone else that evening. (On re-reading she alters to \"I am not sure whether I telephoned to anyone else this evening\").\n\nI was with Miss Lai for 10 years. When I joined her first she was about 14. She is now about 24. She was then studying in school. Later she became a cinema actress after she went in for dancing and singing for 1 or 2 years. She came to Hong Kong with a students' theatrical troupe,",
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        "content_text": "# Head 8.- POST OFFICE AND WIRELESS\n## Approved Estimate, 1933. Estimate, 1934.\n\n|  | $ | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **(A) -POST OFFICE** |  |  |\n| **1 Personal Emoluments** | 348,284 | 318,277 |\n| **2 Carriage of Mails :— Transit Charges** | 150,000 | 150,000 |\n| **3 Cleansing Materials, Utensils and Washing** | 1,400 | 1,400 |\n| **4 Coolie Hire** | 400 | 400 |\n| **5 Incidental Expenses** | 5,150 | 4,800 |\n| **6 Mail Bags, Parcel Boxes, Date Stamps and Scales** | 500 | 500 |\n| **7 Printing** | 960 | 1,500 |\n| **8 Rent of Branch Offices,..** | 11,000 | 10,000 |\n| **9 Stamps...** | 400 | 600 |\n| **10 Telegrams** | 1,500 | 1,700 |\n| **11 Transport** | 10,000 | 10,000 |\n| **12 Uniform and Equipment** |  |  |\n| Class V Postal Clerks and Shroffs, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually) | 21,323 | 20,917 |\n| Class VI Postal Clerks and Shroffs, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $100, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100) | 41,880 | 37,308 |\n| **Total Other Charges** | 182,310 | 181,700 |\n| **Learners at $420 each** | 2,520 | 2,520 |\n| **Special Expenditure** |  |  |\n| **13 Pillar and Letter Boxes** | 6 | 6 |\n| **Total Special Expenditure** | 6 | 6 |\n| **Total A-Post Office** | 532,600 | 502,483 |\n\n## Details of the foregoing.\n\n|  | 1933 | 1934 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **1 Cadet Officer Class I, (£1,500 to £1,500 by £30 annually)** | 1 | 1 |\n|  | 28,286 | 22,100 |\n| **Cadet Officer Class II, (£525 to £1,400 by 3 of £50, 1 of £75, 1 of £100 and 11 of £50)** | (4) | 10,661 |\n| **Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff:-** |  |  |\n| Chief Accountant (£820 to £1,050 by 7 of £30 and 1 of £20) | 1 | 1 |\n|  | 17,743 | 16,800 |\n| Class I, (£600 to £700 by £25 annually) | 2 | (1) |\n|  | 10,000 |  |\n| Do.. Personal Allowance to one | 500 |  |\n| Class III, (£250 to £445 by 6 of £15, 2 of £30 and 3 of £15) | 1 | (6) |\n|  | 4,972 |  |\n| **Superintendent of Mails (£600 to £700 by £25 annually)** | 1 | 1 |\n|  | 12,000 | 11,200 |\n| Language Allowance | 330 | 330 |\n| **Assistant Superintendents of Mails (1 at £460 to £560 by £20 annually, 2 at $4,000 to $5,000 by $200 annually, 2 at £250 to £445 by 6 of £15, 2 of £30 and 3 of £15)** | 5 | 5 |\n|  | 25,164 | 30,563 |\n| **Class I Postal Clerks, ($3,500 to $4,500 by $200 Annually)** | 5 | 5 |\n|  | 20,083 | 19,516 |\n| **Class II Postal Clerks, ($2,700 to $3,300 by $150 annually)** | 10 | 10 |\n|  | 30,917 | 29,553 |\n| Do. Language Allowance to 1,... | 240 | 240 |\n| **Class III Postal Clerks, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually)** | 13 | 13 |\n|  | 29,112 | 27,066 |\n| **Class IV Postal Clerks, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually) and Shroffs** | 12 | 14 |\n|  | 20,650 | 22,898 |\n|  | 210,658 | 180,566 |\n| **Launch Officers, ($1,550 to $2,100 by $50 annually)** | (1) | (3) |\n|  | 6,589 | 7,083 |\n| **Head Postman, ($475 to $600 by $25 annually)** | (4) |  |\n|  | 600 | 600 |\n| **Postmen, 1st Class, ($350 to $450 by $20 annually)** | (1) |  |\n|  | 4,932 | 4,385 |\n| Do, Rent Allowances at $48 each.. | 528 | 560 |\n|  | (2) | (2) |\n|  | 1,100 | 1,100 |\n| **Postmen, 2nd Class, ($276 to $348 by $12 annually)** | 62 | 71 |\n|  | 17,254 | 19,566 |\n| **Postmen, 3rd Class, ($204 to $264 by $12 annually)** | 82 | 82 |\n|  | 17,254 | 19,566 |\n| Do., Rent Allowances to 61 at $48 each, and 91 at $24 each | (4) | (5) |\n|  | 4,594 | 5,112 |\n| **Coolies, ($136 to $204 by $12 triennially)** | 2 | 2 |\n|  | 312 | 312 |\n| **Motor Driver, ($550 to $650 by $50 annually)** | 1 | 1 |\n| Do., Rent Allowance at $72.... | 1 | 1 |\n|  | 72 | 72 |\n| **Carpenter, ($300 to $360 by $12 annually)** | 360 | 360 |\n| Do., Rent Allowance | 48 | 48 |\n| **Painter, ($324 to $384 by $12 annually)** | 384 | 384 |\n| Do., Rent Allowance | 48 | 48 |\n| **Acting Pay** | 2,501 | 2,496 |\n| Do., Rent Allowances at $48 each | (1) |  |\n| **Mail Bag Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)** | (7) | (6) |\n|  | 1,160 | 621 |\n| Do., Rent Allowances to 10 at $48 each and 6 at $24 each | 624 |  |\n| **Overtime Allowances to Clerical Staff, Postmen and Coolies** | 10,000 | 10,000 |\n| **Total Personal Emoluments** | 348,284 | 318,277 |\n\n(1) Changes in personnel.\n(2) One new post; increased postal facilities.\n(3) Two new posts; increased postal facilities.\n(4) Stipulated increments.\n(5) Eleven new posts; increased postal facilities.\n(6) Transferred from Head 32 Public Works Department.\n(7) More acting pay required.\n\n(1) Higher rate of exchange.\n(2) Increased postal facilities.\n(3) More telegrams.\n(4) Changes in personnel.\n(5) Two posts abolished.\n(6) One Class III. S. C. & A. S. replaced by one Assistant Superintendent of Mails on same salary. C.O. D. No. 37 of 24th January, 1933.\n(7) Two new posts. Increased postal facilities.\n\nPage 70\nPage 71",
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        "content_text": "## Head 8.-POST OFFICE AND WIRELESS\n\n### Approved Estimate, 1933. Estimate, 1934.\n\n**(B)-WIRELESS.**\n\n#### 1 Personal Emoluments\n#### Other Charges.\n\n| Category | 1933 | 1934 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 2 Cleansing Materials, Utensils and Washing | 300 | 300 |\n| 3 Contribution towards Expenses of Radiotelegraph Union | 640 | 800 |\n| 4 Documents relating to Radiotelegraph Service | 200 | 400 |\n| 5 Incidental Expenses | 750 | 750 |\n| 6 Rent of Offices for radiotelegraphs | 15,000 | 18,000 |\n| 7 Telegrams | ... | ... |\n| 8 Uniforms..... | 1,800 | 1,800 |\n| **Total Other Charges** | **18,690** | **22,300** |\n\n### Special Expenditure.\n\n| Category | 1933 | 1934 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Gestetner Duplicating Machine | ... | 1,045 |\n| **Total Special Expenditure** | ... | **1,045** |\n| **Total B-Wireless Telegraph Service** | **164,735** | **178,174** |\n\n### NUMBERS.\n\n#### Personal Emoluments.\n\n**(B)-WIRELESS.**\n\n| Post | 1933 | 1934 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Traffic Superintendent, (£475 to £575 by £20 annually) | 9,514 | 9,200 |\n| Assistant Traffic Superintendent, (£310 to £350 by £10 annually) | 5,943 | 5,600 |\n| Assistant Accountant, | 4,200 | 4,200 |\n| Class I Telegraphists, ($3,500 to $4,500 by $200 annually) | 7,800 | 8,200 |\n| Class II Telegraphist, ($2,700 to $3,300 by $150 annually) | 2,813 | 2,875 |\n| Class III Telegraphists, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually) | 10,125 | 10,309 |\n| Class IV Telegraphists, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually) | 25,549 | 35,409 |\n| Class V Telegraphists, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually) | 34,450 | 34,699 |\n| Class VI Telegraphists, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100) | 8,373 | 8,953 |\n| Field Allowances to Telegraphists | 400 | 400 |\n| Class I Clerk, ($3,500 to $4,500 by $200 annually) | 3,700 | 3,900 |\n| Class III Clerk, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually) | 1,950 | 1,900 |\n| Class IV Clerks, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually) | 3,400 | 3,234 |\n| Class V Clerks and Shroffs, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually) | 7,758 | 7,734 |\n| Class VI Clerks and Shroffs, ($480 to $1,050 by of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100) | 3,724 | 3,849 |\n| Radio-postman Class II, ($276 to $348 by $12 annually) | 348 | 348 |\n| Radio-postmen Class III, ($204 to $264 by $12 annually) | 4,105 | 4,216 |\n| Rent Allowances to 19 at $48 each... | 912 | 912 |\n| Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) | ... | ... |\n| Do., Rent Allowances at $48 each | 432 | 432 |\n| Sunday and holiday work Allowances.. | 8,100 | 8,100 |\n| **Total Personal Emoluments** | **145,000** | **155,874** |\n\n(1) Increases anticipated due to Madrid Conference.\n(2) Higher rental.\n(3) Higher rate of exchange.\n(4) Stipulated increments.\n(5) One in place of one Class VI, and five new posts due to expansion.\n(6) One replaced by one Class IV.\n(7) Changes in personnel.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-545-4 Request to write off the value of cash and stamps stolen from General Post office... 26-10-1933 - 20-12-1933",
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        "title": "CO129-545-4 Request to write off the value of cash and stamps stolen from General Post office... 26-10-1933 - 20-12-1933",
        "content_text": "## (2)\n\n8\n\nlocked receptacles.\n\nThe key of the safe during the day remains in the key hole of the empty safe.\n\n3.\n\nOn the morning of the robbery, however, the general office was closed by a locked grill gate and secondly by an inner door. Recently the Public Works Departments were making certain repairs to the hinges of one wing of this latter door and as a result threw out of alignment the door so that the lock would not work effectively until the person locking the door had raised one section of the winged door. I understand from Mr. Hynes that the mail clerk on arrival on the morning of the robbery found this door securely locked indicating that when last locked the peculiar action necessary to secure it had been performed, and suggesting that no one had passed through that doorway since it was fastened the previous night by the mail clerk.\n\n4. In view of the foregoing facts as furnished me by the Superintendent of Mails it would appear that the key of this safe, which should contain value amounting to $3,860, is never in possession of any senior officer whose duties include the custody or control of cash. The duties of the senior mail clerk and the Superintendent of Mails, I assume, do not have any connection with the accuracy of the cash and stamp holdings of the shroffs. It would appear to be a reasonable inference that such duties are embodied in the responsibilities of the Postal Accountant who should retain the key in his personal possession and open and close the safe daily after seeing that each shroff had removed or replaced his locked receptacle in the safe.\n\n5. Any system which permits the key of the safe to remain during business hours in the lock of the safe, I submit, invites robbery by providing the means for securing a duplicate key by impression.\n\nThe\n\nPage 9\n\n## (3)\n\nThe practice of permitting any shroff to close and lock the safe should be discontinued. Such duty would appear to be that of the officer responsible for the safe custody of the cash. I would make an additional recommendation, not specifically designed as an outcome of this robbery, each shroff should be provided with a small passbook and be required to enter therein each day after close of business the details of his stamp and cash holdings. This record would be valuable, especially so had it been in force at the time of this event.\n\nFinally, I would invite reference to Colonial Regulation 207 which prescribes \"that no officer will be relieved of any portion of his responsibility should he depute to his subordinates the performance of duties which he should have performed himself\" I submit that this regulation is applicable in respect of the system in force for the custody of stamp imprests in charge of Postal Shroffs.\n\n(Sgd) P.J.A. HAMILTON.\n2nd Assist. Auditor.\n\nPage 9\n\nPage 10\n\n| No. | Name of Shroff | Value of Imprest | Value found | Shortage | Notes |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | Kwong Kwai | $400 | $146.62 | $253.38 |  |\n| 2 | Au Wai Shau | $400 | $273.04 | $126.96 |  |\n| 3 | Lai Ying | $400 | $342.78 | $57.22 |  |\n| 4 | Ng Tim | $450 | $393.70 | $56.30 |  |\n| 5 | Wong Ming (Treasury) | $300 | $240.00 | $60.00 | All locked receptacles for these values appear to have been prized open. |\n| 6 | Ha Tsau | $400 | $219.13 | $180.87 |  |\n| 7 | Au Kit | $400 | $285.47 | $114.53 |  |\n| 8 | Woo Woon Luen (Tax correspondence) | $200 | $151.50 | $48.50 |  |\n| 9 | Ho Yuk Man | $500 | $171.03 | $328.97 |  |\n| 10 | Chan Ming | $400 | $17.64 | $382.36 |  |\n| 11 | Leung Chee (No. 2 Postman) | $10 | $8.40 | $1.60 |  |\n|  |  | $3,860 | $2,249.31 | $1,610.69 |  |\n|  |  |  | Less loose stamps found scattered on office floor | $21.60 |  |\n|  |  |  | Total shortage | $1,589.09 |  |\n\nAbsent in Aberdeen. P.M.G.'s findings accepted.\nP.M.G.'s findings accepted not checked.\nAccepted by Treasury and Post Office as correct.\n\nPage 10\nPage 11",
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        "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## Postal Service in the New Territories\n\nThe New Territories are currently served by a travelling postman who proceeds by train daily to Sheung Shui and thence by bus to Un Long where he effects local delivery, collection, and sale of stamps. Otherwise, the New Territories are served from the various Police Stations which exchange closed mails with the General Post Office daily and which effect district deliveries and sale of stamps in addition. The particular districts referred to, other than Taipo Market and Un Long, namely Tsun Wan, Castle Peak, Kam Tin, Sheung Shui, and Sha Tin, are served by the Police Stations.\n\n2. Post Offices are shortly to be established at Un Long and Taipo Market. In this year's Estimates, provision has been made for the renting of suitable premises and for a staff of one clerk and two postmen for each office. In due course, the present system will be progressively replaced by direct service from the Postal Department. It is also proposed to erect pillar boxes at Tsun Wan, Castle Peak, and at five other points in the Territories. Many residents in the New Territories have their correspondence intercepted at the General Post Office and delivered at their town addresses.\n\n## FINANCE COMMITTEE'S REPORT\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY**, by command of H.E. the Governor, laid upon the table the report of the Finance Committee, No. 6 of 17th May, 1934, and moved that it be adopted.\n\n**THE COLONIAL TREASURER** seconded, and this was agreed to.\n\n**THE COLONIAL TREASURER** moved the first reading of a Bill intituled \"**An Ordinance to make provision for a loan of twenty-five million dollars for the carrying out of certain public works, for the redemption of certain inscribed stock, and for other purposes**\". He said: Honourable members have during the last four years agreed to resolutions providing moneys for various public works and have approved the expenditure on these being charged as advances from the surplus balances of the Colony pending the raising of a loan. During the whole of this period, the date on which this loan should be raised has received very careful consideration, and in the opinion of the Government, the time has now arrived when an issue should be made. Interest rates have fallen to a point never seen before by this generation, especially in Hong Kong, where it was considered impossible until quite recently for Government to raise money on a 3% per cent basis. Fortunately, the Treasury cash balances have been so large that the necessity for borrowing money was never pressing, and Government has financed these loan works from its cash surpluses.",
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        "content_text": "# 33808\n\n**CLOSED UNTIL**\n\n7 J\n\n1934\n\nTONG KONG\n\n33808\n\nL\n\n| Co | 129/549/4 |\n| --- | --- |\n\n**POSTAL CHARGES**\n\n|          |        |\n|----------|--------|\n| Previous | 92664  |\n|          | 32     |\n| see      | :-33784|\n|          | 34     |\n| Siberian Route. |     |\n| Subsequent | 53744/36|\n\n| R83 | E. Dept. | Mr Luth | 24 | 29/5 | 305. |\n|-----|----------|---------|----|------|------|\n|     | Mr Gust  | 30      |    |      |      |\n| M Vernon | R.298 | 716  | 6  |      |      |\n| **PUT BY** | 13/6 |      |    |      |      |\n| E. Dept. | het 13. | R.30 | 13.6 | R.298 |      |\n| **BUT BY2V** | 15/6 |      |    |      |      |\n\n**FILE A.**\n\n`(16621)` Wt. 13126-16 25.000 in 4 sorts 10/32 P. st. G. 101/32 B",
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        "content_text": "## 2 \n\n1 Gov. sel 80 (excluding P. Salar as approved, P.O. repes es 12 rectuce Empere route) from 12 to 10 cents from 1st July 1934. Requests of Full Bureau.\n\nThe proposal is to reduce Empire ratio (Excluding the Siberian Route) from 12° to 10° from the 1st July 1934.\n\nThe Governor gives no indication of the probable effect on revenue of the proposed reduction in postage rates. The 1934 Estimates show that the Estimated receipts in account amount to $1,300,000 (Head 5 item 2/01) or $25,000 less than the Estimated receipts in 1933.\n\nSubject to observations of the P.O., we might approve the proposed reduction. Acceptance is submitted.\n\nBlüm 9.20. 15 Ander 29/5/34\n\nThe existing rates for Empire letters are: \n| Route | Rate |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) via Suez or Pacific | 12¢ per oz. |\n| (b) via Siberia | 20¢ first oz., 10¢ every add'l oz. |\n\nIf the H.R. P.O. think they can afford to reduce the rate for (a) to 10¢, I see no reason to object. We should send only corresp. to C.As. for info so that they will later understand whatever instructions they may receive in regard to our changes.\n\nThe postal rates were substantially reduced on account of a fall in the Empire rate from 15¢ to 12¢.\n\n... in the case of ... The dollar ... CM ... Th ... wercase ... The ... dottar ...",
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        "content_text": "## Iran\n\naround a ... 100%\n\nThe house at ... When the 1. K went q Rd the dollar exchange injured the 416 $ Las been worth Sonne 4mm pact. The present proposal reflects this change's in the $ value at the same Live retains 50817 Z increased charge imposed in 1931.\n\nThe effect will be affect sufficiently large to ... cannot balance of the Budget \n**[G.E.J. Gent 30.5 ]** \nZV. Verrum \n20/s at me \n722 \n220 G.P.O. `w/c (1)` \n`w/c (1)` - bous: 2- JUN 1934",
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        "content_text": "# \n12.6.34.\n\nIn DESTROYS \n\nthat Inel. Bur can observations adics amed. being infan \n\n(W) copies of (1), (2), and (3) to C.A. for information : forward as copies of (2) and (3) to H. Kong h/f re() \n\n12 Bader \n13.6.34 Sund chr riel Go Gou G captioning proposal I saying that the Int. Burkan is being informed. \n\nthus \n\nCA A 10 unt. Then \n\nThe change «? pretal change. \n\nTel. to Governor Yo b. A. \n\nDESTROYED UN \nor ho. 54. \n14/6/32- \n15 JUN 1934 \n\n## Reconstructed Version\n### 12.6.34.\nIn connection with certain observations and statistics being examined, it is noted that the International Bureau is being informed.\n\nCopies of documents (1), (2), and (3) are being sent to the Colonial Administration (C.A.) for information, and copies of (2) and (3) are being forwarded to Hong Kong half-yearly report re().\n\n12 Bader \n13.6.34 \n\nA captioning proposal is saying that the International Bureau is being informed.\n\nThus, the Colonial Administration (C.A.) is taking note. Then there is a change, a material change. \n\nA telegram is sent to the Governor by the Colonial Administration.\n\n`DESTROYED UN` or ho. 54. \n14/6/32 was likely an error and the correct date is near the actual event date: \n15 JUN 1934",
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        "content_text": "## POSTAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT, GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON, E.C.1.\n\n12 June, 1934.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Postmaster General to refer to your letter of the 2nd instant transmitting a copy of a telegram received from the Governor of Hong-Kong submitting proposals for a reduction in Empire postage rates (excluding the Siberian route) and to say, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that he has no observations to offer.\n\nThe Postmaster General notes that it is proposed to approve of the introduction of the revised rates with effect from the 1st of July next, and the International Bureau of the Universal Postal Union is being advised accordingly.\n\nI am, Sir,\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\nCOLONIAL OFFICE.\n\nCABLES \nSCHEME \nMET \nTelephone: NATIONAL 6321 \nYour Reference 33808/34. \nP.O. Reference 45618/34. \n3 \n5 \n4 \nFGY \n[2] \nAlliderr",
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        "content_text": "# DRAFT\n\nThe Secretary of State. 92664/32\n\nTel from HK 29/5/34\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\n(1)\n\nWith reference to letter from this Department No `92664/32` of the 16th June 1932, I am to transmit to you, to be laid before the Postmaster General, a copy of a telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong submitting proposals for reduction in Empire postage rates (excluding the Siberian route).\n\nThe Postmaster General is to telegraph the Secretary of State proposes to approve of the introduction of the revised rates recommended with effect from the 1st July 1934. In the event of the Postmaster General concurring, the Secretary of State would be obliged if particulars of the revised rates might be communicated to the International Bureau of the Postal Union as requested by the Governor.\n\n(Signed) G. E. J. Gent\n\nCopy to G.P.O.\n\n## Distribution List\n\n| Name | Title/Designation |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. Bader | 275 |\n| Mr. Hut Cade |  |\n| M.A. Gent | 30/5 |\n| Mr. Parkinson |  |\n| Mr. Tomlinson |  |\n| Sir C. Bottomley |  |\n| Sir J. Shuckburgh |  |\n| Permt. U.S. of S. |  |\n| Parly. U.S. of S. |  |\n\n33802/3 Hong Kong  \n(3)  \n34  \nDrawing  \nPint  \nsop  \nPage 9  \nMay 17, 1934  \n2 - JUN 1934",
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        "content_text": "## Telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nDated 29th May, 1934.\n\nReceived 5.35 a.m. 29th May.\n\nNo. 80.\n\nPostal charges. Propose reduce Empire rates (excluding Siberian route) from 12 cents to 10 cents per ounce as from the 1st July. If you approve please request Post Office notify International Bureau forthwith.\n\nPage 7",
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        "content_text": "22\n\n# Head 8.- POST OFFICE AND WIRELESS\n\n## Head 8.-POST OFFICE AND WIRELESS\n\nApproved Estimate, 1984.\n\nEstimate, 1935.\n\n(4) POST OFFICE.\n\n## Sub-heads-\n\n$\n$\n$\n\nI Personal Emoluments\n318,277\n333,502\n\nOther Charges.\n\n## Head 8.-POST OFFICE AND WIRELESS\n\nApproved Estimate. 1934.\n\nEstimate, 1935.\n\n(4)-POST OFFICE,-Continued.\n\n## Personal Emoluments,-Continued.\n\n$\n$\n$\n\n2 Carriage of Mails :-\n\nTransit Charges\n150,000\n150,000\n\n3 Cleansing Materials, Utensils and Washing\n1,400\n1,200\n\n(1)\n\nBrought forward\n180,566\n187,833\n\n4 Coolie Hire\n400\n400\n\n5 Incidental Expenses\n1,000\n800\n\n(1)\n\n6 Mail Bags, Parcel Boxes, Date Stamps and Scales\n4,800\n4,000\n\n(1) (2)\n\n## NUMBERS.\n\n7 Printing\n500\n500\n\n8 Rent of Branch Offices,..\n\n1,500\n\n9 Stamps....\n10,000\n7,500\n\n10 Telegrams\n600\n600\n\n17\n17\n17\n\n11 Transport\n1,500\n\n12 Uniform and Equipment\n10,000\n8,000\n\n(1)\n\nand Shroffs,\n\n} Class V Postal Clerks ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100\n50\n50\n\nClass VI Postal Clerks\n20,917\n22,319\n\nannually) ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60,1 of $160, 3 of $50\n\nTotal Other Charges\n181,700\n184,200\n\nand 2 of $100)....\n37,308\n40,521\n\n6\n6\n6\n\nLearners at $420 each\n2,520\n2,520\n\n4\n4\n4\n\n## Special Expenditure.\n\n1\n1\n1\n\n11\n11\n11\n\n13 Pillar and Letter Boxes\n1,100\n500\n\n(1)\n\n14 Motor Mail Van..\n\n1,800\n\nC\n70\n70\n\nTwo Hand Trucks\n560\n\nLaunch Officers, ($1,550 to $2,100 by $50 annually)\n\nHead Postman, ($475 to $600 by $25 annually).......\n7,083\n6,553\n\nPostmen, 1st Class, ($350 to $450 by $20 annually)\n600\n600\n\n4,395\n4,525\n(1)\n\ne\n529\n528\n\n$348 by $12\n\n23,002\n23,401\n\n82\n82\n\nDo.,\n\n## Total Special Expenditure\n1,660\n2,300\n\n## Total A-Post Office\n301,637\n520,002\n\n3rd Class, ($204 to $264 annually).......\n19,566\n19,872\n\nby $12\n\nDo.\n\nRent Allowances to 61 at $48 each, and 91\n\n2\n2\n\nat $24 each Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n5,112\n5,112\n\nDo.,\n\nê\n312\n313\n\n(1)\n\n## Personal Emoluments.\n\n16\n16\n\nRent Allowances at $48 each Mail Bag Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)...\n96\n96\n\n2,496\n2,501\n(1)\n\n## NUMBERS.\n\n1934 1935\n\n¡\n\nDo.,\n\n1\n\n## Details of the foregoing.\n\nCadet Officer, Class I, (£1,500 to £1,800 by £50 annually)\n\nRent Allowances to 10 at $18 each and 6 at $24 each\n624\n624\n\nOvertime Allowances to Clerical Staff, Postmen and Coolies\n10,000\n10,000\n\n1\n2\n\nMotor Drivers, ($550 to $650 by $50 annually)\n650\n1,200\n\nDo..\n\n26,250\n\n1\n\n***\n\nCadet Officer, Class II, (£525 to £1,400 by 3 of £50,\n\nI\n1\n\n(2)(6)\n\n1 of £75, 1 of £100 and 11 of £50)\n22,400\n\nRent Allowances at $72 each\n\nCarpenter, ($300 to $360 by $12 annually).\n360\n360\n\nDo., Rent Allowance...\n48\n48\n\n'} (8)\n\nSenior Clerical and Accounting Staff:\n\n'\n1\n\n1\n\n1\n\nChief Accountant, (£820 to £1,050 by 7 of £30 and 1 of £20)\n16,800\n15,750\n\n(2)\n\nI\n\nPainter, ($324 to $384 by $12 annually).\n384\n384\n\nDo, Rent Allowance\n48\n48\n\nActing Pay\n1,600\n4,000\n\n(4)\n\n1\n\n1\n\nSuperintendent of Mails, (£600 to £700 by £25 annually)...\n11,200\n\nPersonal Allowance at £50 annually\n\n10,500\n\nLanguage Allowance ...\n330\n750\n\n330\n\n5\n6\n\nAssistant Superintendents of Mails, (1 at £460 to £560 by £20 annually, 3 at £250 to £445 by 6 of £15, 2 of £30 and 3 of £15, 2 at $4,000 to $5,000 by $200 annually)\n\n## Total Personal Emoluments\n318,277\n¡ 333,502\n\n30.563\n\n5\n5\n\nClass I Postal Clerks, ($3,500 to $4,500 by $200 annually)\n31,300\n(2)(5)(6)(7)\n\n19,516\n\n10\n10\n\nClass II Postal Clerks, (2,700 to $3,300 by $150\n20,316\n(1) Stipulated increments.\n\nannually)\n\n(7)\n\n(2) Changes in personnel.\n\n(3) One new post for Kowloon.\n\n(4) More acting pay required.\n\n29,553\n\nDo..\n30.815\n\nLanguage Allowance to 1,....\n240\n\n13\n13\n\nClass III Postal Clerks, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually)\n\n240\n\n14\n14\n\nClass IV Postal Clerks ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 and Shroffs,\n27,066\n27,824\n\nannually)\n22,898\n23,758\n\nCarried forward\n180,566\n187,833\n\n(1) Considered sufficient.\n\n(5) Changes in personnel.\n\n(2) Higher rate of exchange.\n\n(3) New temporary Branch Office, Kowloon.\n\n(4) For Kowloon and New Territories,\n\n(6) One new post for Kowloon Branch Office.\n\n(7) Stipulated increments.\n\n247\n\n23",
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        "content_text": "248\n\n24\n\nHead 8.-POST OFFICE AND WIRELESS\n\nApproved Estimate, 1934.\n\nEstimate, 1935.\n\n(B)-WIRELESS.\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\nOther Charges.\n\n2 Cleansing Materials, Utensils and Washing\n\n155,874\n\n158,037\n\n300\n\n300\n\n3 Contribution towards Expenses of Radiotelegraph Union\n\n800\n\n800\n\n4 Documents relating to Radiotelegraph Service\n\n400\n\n400\n\n5 Incidental Expenses\n\n750\n\n750\n\n6 Rent of Offices for radiotelegraphs\n\n18,000\n\n18,000\n\n7 Telegrams\n\n250\n\n250\n\n8 Uniforms\n\n1,800\n\n1,800\n\nTotal Other Charges\n\n22,300\n\n22,300\n\nTotal B-Wireless Telegraph Service\n\n178,174\n\n180,337\n\nPersonal Emoluments.\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\nNUMBERS.\n\n(B) – WIRELESS.\n\n  \n    1934\n    1935\n  \n  \n    1\n    1\n  \n  \n    Traffic Superintendent, (£475 to £575 by £20 annually)\n    9,200\n    8,625\n  \n  \n    1\n    1\n  \n  \n    Assistant Traffic Superintendent, (£310 to £350 by £10 annually)\n    5,600\n    5,250\n  \n  \n    1\n    1\n  \n  \n    Assistant Accountant\n    4,200\n    4,800\n  \n  \n    2\n    2\n  \n  \n    Class I Telegraphists, ($3,500 to $4,500 by $200 annually)\n    8,200\n    8,600\n  \n  \n    1\n    1\n  \n  \n    Class II Telegraphist, ($2,700 to $3,300 by $150 annually)\n    2,875\n    3,025\n  \n  \n    5\n    5\n  \n  \n    Class III Telegraphists, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually)\n    10,309\n    10,809\n  \n  \n    21\n    26\n  \n  \n    13\n    19\n  \n  \n    21\n    19\n  \n  \n    Class IV Telegraphists, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually)\n    35,409\n    36,309\n  \n  \n    26\n    26\n  \n  \n    Class V Telegraphists, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually)\n    34,699\n    34,694\n  \n  \n    13\n    13\n  \n  \n    Class VI Telegraphists, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100)\n    8,953\n    8,308\n  \n  \n    \n    Field Allowances to Telegraphists\n    400\n    400\n  \n  \n    1\n    1\n  \n  \n    Class I Clerk, ($3,500 to $4,500 by $200 annually)\n    3,900\n    4,100\n  \n  \n    1\n    1\n  \n  \n    Class III Clerk, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually)\n    1,900\n    1,900\n  \n  \n    4\n    6\n  \n  \n    2\n    4\n  \n  \n    1\n    1\n  \n  \n    Class IV Clerks, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually)\n    7,734\n    8,234\n  \n  \n    3\n    3\n  \n  \n    Class V Clerks and Shroffs, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually)\n    3,849\n    4,046\n  \n  \n    1\n    1\n  \n  \n    Radio-postman Class II, ($276 to $348 by $12 annually)\n    348\n    348\n  \n  \n    18\n    18\n  \n  \n    Radio-postmen Class III, ($204 to $264 by $12 annually)\n    4,216\n    4,302\n  \n  \n    \n    Kent Allowances to 19 at $48 each\n    912\n    912\n  \n  \n    \n    Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n    1,404\n    1,409\n  \n  \n    \n    Rent Allowances at $48 each\n    432\n    432\n  \n  \n    \n    Sunday and holiday work Allowances\n    8,100\n    8,100\n  \n  \n    \n    Total Personal Emoluments\n    155,874\n    158,037\n  \n\n(1) Higher rate of exchange, (2) Salary revised.\n\n(3) Stipulated increments. (4) Changes in personnel.",
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        "content_text": "anne (27)\n\nUnofficial.\n\n\"Emscote,\"\n\nWelwyn Heath,\n\nWELWYN,\n\nHerts.,\n\n16 July 35.\n\n26. 35\n\nDear Mr. Cowell,\n\nCan you please do something to bring my case to its concluding point without further delay? Day after day and month after month I watch for the postman and although it is now nine months since I retired, and over a year since the date of my vacancy was known, my case is apparently allowed to drift.\n\nI have already lost about £20. in solicitor's fees for arranging a mortgage, which would not have been necessary if my lump sum had been available when due - a considerable sum to one of my slender resources. I want specialised medical, dental and optical treatment; then I have the rates, current expenses etc.\n\nHaving had to support my Father for the past 30 years I have not been able to save. I feel bound to say it seems a heartless way to treat a poor sick old man.\n\nYours faithfully,",
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        "content_text": "# SCHEDULE A.\n\nISLAND OF HONG KONG.\n\n(Condition No. 6.)\n\n# SCHEDULE B.\n\nLIST OF MAXIMUM FARES. ISLAND OF HONG KONG,\n\n  \n    Route No.\n    Details of Route.\n    Hours of Service.\n    Seating Capacity.\n    Minimum\n    Maximum\n  \n  \n    Between the undermentioned places, in either direction.\n    \n    \n    First Class.\n    Second Class.\n  \n  \n    1.\n    Blake Pier and Happy Valley. Via Connaught Road Central, Murray Road, Queen's Road East, Johnston Road, Wanchai Road and Wong Nei Chung Road\n    From 6 a.m. to 11.30 p.m. Every 10 minutes.\n    20\n    Cents. 10\n    Cents. 20\n  \n  \n    \n    Blake Pier and Taikoo Dockyard\n    \n    \n    11\n    25\n  \n  \n    \n    Blake Pier and Causeway Bay\n    \n    \n    10\n    20\n  \n  \n    \n    Blake Pier and Hong Kong University\n    \n    \n    10\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Blake Pier and Felix Villas\n    \n    \n    \n    33\n  \n  \n    Maximum 28 seater is recommended. Absolute maximum to be 30 seater\n  \n  \n    \n    Kennedy Town and Tai Hang\n    \n    \n    10\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Hong Kong and Repulse Bay\n    \n    \n    40\n    \n  \n  \n    2.\n    Blake Pier and Taikoo. Via Connaught Road Central, Murray Road, Queen's Road East and Lockhart Road\n    From 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Every hour.\n    \n    20\n    30\n  \n  \n    \n    Junction of Eastern Street and Connaught Road West and Aberdeen\n    \n    \n    25\n    15\n  \n  \n    3.\n    Blake Pier and University. Via Pedder Street, Des Voeux Road Central, Garden Road, Caine Road and Bonham Road\n    From 7.30 a.m. to 12 midnight. Every 10 minutes.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    3A.\n    Blake Pier and Felix Villas. Via Route 3, Pokfulam Road and Mount Davis Road\n    From 7.30 a.m. to 12 midnight. Every hour.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    4.\n    Blake Pier and University. Via Pedder Street, Queen's Road Central and West and Pokfulam Road\n    From 7.30 a.m. to 12 midnight. Every 10 minutes.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    5.\n    Kennedy Town and Tai Hang. Via Belcher Street, Queen's Road West, Central and East, Morrison Gap Road, Morrison Hill Road, Leighton Hill Road and Caroline Road\n    From 6.30 a.m. to 12 midnight. Every 5 minutes.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    6.\n    Hong Kong and Repulse Bay. Via Queen's Road Central and East and Stubbs Road\n    From 7.30 a.m. to 12 midnight. Every hour.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    7.\n    Hong Kong and Aberdeen. From junction of Connaught Road West and Eastern Street. Via Eastern Street and Pokfulam Road\n    From 5.30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Every 20 minutes.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    7A.\n    Aberdeen and Stanley. Via Island Road\n    From 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Every hour.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Junction of Eastern Street and Connaught Road West and Stanley\n    \n    \n    50\n    30\n  \n  \n    \n    Aberdeen and Little Hong Kong Village\n    \n    \n    10\n    5\n  \n  \n    \n    Little Hong Kong Village and Stanley\n    \n    \n    15\n    10\n  \n  \n    \n    Shouson Hill Road and Stanley\n    \n    \n    20\n    10\n  \n  \n    \n    Shouson Hill Road\n    \n    \n    \n    15\n  \n  \n    \n    Deep Water Bay\n    \n    \n    \n    10\n  \n  \n    \n    Deep Water Bay and Stanley\n    \n    \n    25\n    15\n  \n  \n    \n    Repulse Bay\n    \n    \n    20\n    10\n  \n  \n    \n    Repulse Bay Hotel and Stanley\n    \n    \n    20\n    10\n  \n\nChildren below the age of four years to be carried free if accompanied by British Service men (in uniform) and children below the age of twelve years to be carried 1st class at 2nd class rates (if any), but full fare may be charged when travelling 2nd class or in a single class vehicle.\n\nPolice Officers and Postman, on duty, shall be carried free of charge.\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nHong Kong.\n\n1933.\n\nApproved by the Governor in Council on the 23rd day of March, 1933.\n\nClerk of Councils,\n\nCouncil Chamber,\n\n23rd March, 1933.\n\nLicence accepted.\n\n(Licensee).\n\n1933.\n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61",
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        "content_text": "NUMBERS.\n\n1935 1936\n\nHead 8.-POST OFFICE AND WIRELESS\n\n(A) – POST OFFICE,—Continued.\n\nPersonal Emoluments,-Continued.\n\n124\n\n  \n    \n    Approved Estimate, 1935.\n    Estimate, 1936.\n  \n  \n    Brought forward\n    187,833\n    176,412\n  \n  \n    \n    17\n    17\n  \n  \n    Class V Postal Clerks and Shroffs, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually)\n    22,319\n    22,736\n  \n  \n    \n    (1)\n    50\n    53\n  \n  \n    Class VI Postal Clerks and Shroffs, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60,1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100)\n    40,521\n    42,006\n  \n  \n    \n    (2)\n    6411\n    \n  \n  \n    Learners at $420 each\n    2,520\n    2,520\n  \n  \n    \n    4\n    1\n    11\n  \n  \n    \n    70\n    82\n    880\n  \n  \n    \n    70\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Launch Officers, ($1,550 to $2,100 by $50 annually) Head Postman, ($475 to $600 by $25 annually). Postmen, 1st Class, ($350 to $450 by $20 annually).\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Do, Rent Allowances at $48 each.... Postmen, 2nd Class, ($276 to $348 by $12 annually)\n    6,553\n    6,653\n  \n  \n    \n    (1)\n    600\n    600\n  \n  \n    \n    4,525\n    4,600\n    (1)\n  \n  \n    \n    528\n    528\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    23,401\n    23,525\n    (1)\n  \n  \n    \n    90\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Do., 3rd Class, ($204 to $264 by $12 annually)\n    19,872\n    21,803\n  \n  \n    Do., Rent Allowances to 61 at $48 each, and 99 at $24 each\n    5,112\n    5,304\n  \n  \n    \n    (3)\n    (3)\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2\n    2\n    \n  \n  \n    Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n    313\n    312\n  \n  \n    \n    (4)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Do., Rent Allowances at $48 each\n    96\n    96\n  \n  \n    \n    16\n    16\n    \n  \n  \n    Do., Mail Bag Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Rent Allowances to 10 at $48 each and 6 at $24 each\n    2,501\n    2,496\n  \n  \n    \n    (4)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Overtime Allowances to Clerical Staff, Postmen and Coolies\n    624\n    624\n  \n  \n    \n    10,000\n    10,000\n  \n  \n    \n    2\n    ลง\n    2\n  \n  \n    Motor Drivers, 1 at ($550 to $650 by $50 annually and 1 at $550 to $650 by $25 annually)\n    1,200\n    1,220\n  \n  \n    \n    1\n    1\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1\n    1\n    \n  \n  \n    Do., Carpenter, ($300 to $360 by $12 annually)\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Do., Rent Allowance\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Painter, ($324 to $384 by $12 annually)\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Do., Rent Allowance\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Acting Pay\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Rent Allowance to 1 at $72\n    144\n    72\n  \n  \n    \n    (5)\n    頭\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    360\n    360\n  \n  \n    \n    48\n    48\n  \n  \n    \n    384\n    384\n  \n  \n    \n    48\n    48\n  \n  \n    \n    4,000\n    3,000*\n  \n  \n    \n    (6)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total Personal Emoluments\n    333,502\n    325,347\n  \n  \n    \n    23\n    \n    \n  \n\n(1) Stipulated increments.\n\n(2) Three new posts increased postal facilities at Hunghom and Sai Wan Ho.\n\n(3) Eight new posts-increased postal facilities at Hunghom, Sai Wan Ho, Kowloon City, Shou Son Hill, & Stanley.\n\n(4) Changes in personnel,\n\n(5) Rent allowance to one only required.\n\n(6) Less acting pay required.\n\nPage 120\n\nPage 121",
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        "content_text": "## \nThe external postage rates have been changed not infrequently in the past in sympathy with the changing value of the £. Now that the £ has been stabilised for some time being at a comparatively low sterling rate, there is justification, quite apart from the need to increase HHS revenue for buffer purposes, in maintaining the external postage rates at their present level.\n\nSubject to observation H.G.D. to C.P.O. as at No.2 in `33808/34`.\n\nMankin \n27/4/86\n\n\"Considerates propose 'Vice rates, of offence to be effective 10 leve...\"\n\nThe external postage rates...\n\nImportant! \nWait to go, Mahoney \n£500, \napprove these increases \nT \nof working that, \nk \neat if P.R.G. agrees with many...\n\nMeant \n·28.4",
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        "content_text": "#2 \n28/4/36 \n\nTo C.A. \n\nAnd send word to C.A. of/in letter to GAO reach 225. \n\n28/4 \n\nY SPO \n\n29.4.36 \nY/ Yo 14. \n\nBlic H GRO. \n6.5.36 \n\nStating that International Beneath the Postal Union will be duly advised reactor copy of letter to SGJPJ Bum ? Will asüdft. \n\nCopy with copy of Arsue to CA. Yunt\". \n\nCopy 4+ Encl. to Eov. Off nift CyCarstais 8/5-\n\nThe point of para 2 is to Conrect by telephone) the GPO Widme reference in domestic and Linens om letter N:2 10 Empire letter postal rates\", Darrens Tous the changes ran ...",
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        "content_text": "Telephone: NATIONAL 6321\n\nTelegrams: Postgen Cent London\n\nYour Reference `53744/36`\n\nP.O. Reference `39134/36`\n\nCopy to Hay Kon B.A.\n\n-6\n\n**IMMEDIATE**\n\n2\n\nSir,\n\nReferring to your letter of the 29th April, enclosing a copy of a telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong proposing certain increases in the rates of postage in Hong Kong as from the 1st June.\n\nIt is understood that the proposals relate not only to domestic and inter-Empire postage rates, but also to the international letter and postcard rates; and a letter, of which a copy is enclosed, has accordingly been sent to the Swiss Post Office under Article 105, §1, of the Detailed Regulations of the Postal Union Convention.\n\nThe International Bureau of the Postal Union will be duly informed of the new rates applicable to (a) letters within the Colony and (b) letters and postcards for destinations within the British Empire.\n\nI am, Sir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nKt Williamson\n\n**POSTAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT, GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON, E.C.1.**\n6 May 1936.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\nCOLONIAL OFFICE.",
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        "content_text": "39134/36\n\n6 May 1936.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Postmaster General to say that the Post Office of Hong Kong proposes to adopt, as from the 1st June, the undermentioned equivalents of the international letter and postcard rates of postage:\n\nLetters:\n| Weight | Rate |\n| --- | --- |\n| not exceeding 1 ounce | 25 cents |\n| each additional ounce or fraction thereof | 15 cents |\n\nPostcards: ... 15 cents\n\nThe Postmaster General will be much obliged if you will be good enough to inform the Director of the International Bureau accordingly.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\n(Sd.) S.O. Cumley.\n\nThe Director General of Posts and Telegraphs,\nBERNE.",
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        "content_text": "## DRAFT\n\nThe Director,  \nG.C.O.\n\n3rd May 1936\n\nI am directed to refer to your letter No. `380873/4` and to your letters Nos. 1 to 12 from 1934 (`426037`) and (`426037/ようか` is not clear, possibly a file reference or code, but it is not clear, so it is left as is) addressed to the Secretary of State, to be laid before the Commission General, Hong Kong.\n\n## FURTHER ACTION\n\n2. The Permanent Under-Secretary of State may approve the increase...",
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        "content_text": "## indicia \n\nThe \n\nStan \n\n3. the \n\nwa, be obliged if \n\nno decision by the \n\nrevised as may \n\nCm ra \n\nis the International \n\nBureau of the Postal Union \n\nrequesting to you.\n\n(signed) G. E. J. Gent.",
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        "content_text": "# COPY FOR REGISTRATION \n\n## RE 27 APR 1936 \n\n**Telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies**\n\nDated 27th April, 1936. Received at 12.10 pm. 27th April, 1936.\n\nNo.86 With stabilisation of dollar and need for increased revenue propose with the approval of the Executive Council following adjustment in the letter rates certain of which are at present uneconomical. Domestic from 3 cents to 4 cents an ounce. Empire from 10 cents an ounce to 15 cents first ounce and 10 cents additional ounce; post cards 10 cents. Empire via Siberia and Union from 20 cents first ounce and 10 cents additional to 25 and 15; post cards 15 cents.\n\nIf you approve please request Post Office to notify International Bureau 15 days beforehand enabling revision effective 1st June.",
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        "content_text": "## C.JP \n\n\"P\" \n\n1.0.AG. Tel. 193. \n\nRef 1/-/36. Requests be informed of new rates effective 19th October.\n\n18.9.37, \n\nCoby letter 11/12 Bowser agrees paras 203 of XCR(36).\n\nP. Rogers 5/15 Eschart. 15. \n\n5LX To G.R.O. (wsl) bons. **DESTROY UNDER STATUTE** 3.6.A. (wok 18 2) 18/1 \n\n24/9/37 4. G.P.O. २४.१.३५. \n\n2 ansd. No objections except on date of coming into force. Encl. draft letter to Series 1.0.\n\nWe can only concur. Draft letter to be one of them informing date adopted.\n\nP. Regos 29/9 (Mr Arayer is away). Be held first. 5 Tel 191 to Gov.\n\n911, Mant 30,'a 11/1937",
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        "content_text": "## \n6. T.G.P.O.(4) andy \n\n**DESTROYED UNDER STATUTE** \n\n**DESTROYED UN** \n\nAPE \n\n2.4.37 \n\nBd G. Feb 221 \n\n57x \n\nExecutive Council also approve increase registration fee 20 to 25 cents and advice fee 25 cents. Effective date 10 Nov. if possible. \n\n? Copy $6. \n\nL is (2) Immediate P. Roger $/K Jmegson Grant 4/10737. EMGrant 9/11 & 208.P.O. -(4-7) -(M7) Com; 2 OCT 197 \n\nq GV.O. \n\n(Two copy of letter to Dir Genl. of Postal Telco) \n\nBerne, Switzerland. read 7. 10. 27 \n\nThe the enclour -(4) agreed 6 \n\nwynt (o refly 6(6) P.Roger \n\n12/x at ace.",
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        "content_text": "## 10. G.P.O.\n\n16·10·37.\n\n4\n\n8 ansd. no obsons. Berne has been \nnotified. Encl. copy letter to Swiss R.C.\n\n? Inform \nH.K. by \ntu. 9\n\ndecisia.\n\nToby \n@ G.D.Off.\n\nP. Roges \n19/7\n\nI spoke to the G.P.O. about this as I could \nnot see how the provisions of Article 105 Section 1 \nof the Cairo Detailed Regulations \ncould be satisfied since the G.P.O. letter to the \nDirector of Posts and Telegraphs, Berne, is only \ndated the 16th of October and the change comes into \neffect \"at the soonest 15 days after notification by \nthe International Bureau\". The G.P.O. said that they \nhad considered the point and that it would be all \nright as they had already notified the more important \nHong Kong changes in a letter dated the 5th of \nOctober. They have in the past frequently trusted to \nthe good offices of the Berne Bureau in similar cases \nand have got away with it and they anticipate no \ndifficulty in this case. The worst that could \nhappen would be for one of the other contracting \nparties to draw attention to the technical breach of \nthe terms of Article 105, and if so disposed to \ndemand that the alteration should not be enforced \nuntil the first of the following month. But that \nG.P.O. consider is very unlikely to happen.\n\nDraft \nmemo \n20.10.37.\n\nI to you. 11.215. Janona. 21/10/37 \nDESTROYED UNDER STATUTE",
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        "content_text": "# POSTAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT, GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON, E.C.1.\n\n15 October, 1937.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 7th of October, enclosing a copy of a telegram from the Officer administering the Government of Hong Kong, proposing an increase in the registration fee in Hong Kong from 20 to 25 cents and in the advice of delivery fee from 10 to 25 cents with effect from the 1st of November, I am directed by the Postmaster General to say, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that he has no observations to offer regarding the proposed fees, which have accordingly been notified to the Swiss Post Office for communication to the International Bureau of the Universal Postal Union.\n\nA copy of the letter to the Swiss Post Office is enclosed.\n\nI am, Sir,\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n**COLONIAL OFFICE**.\n\nTelephone: NATIONAL 6321\nTelegrams: Postgen Cent London\n\n|             |                  |\n|-------------|------------------|\n| Your Reference | P.O. Reference   |\n|             | 53744/37.        |\n|             | 19721/37.        |\n\n**RECEIVED**\n18 OCT 1937\n\nC. O. REGY \n106 \n\n`XCR(85)72` is not present, hence not included.\n\nPage numbering is not present in the given text, hence not included.",
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        "content_text": "Your Ref. `522.43.2`\n\nP.0. Ref. `19721/37`\n\nSir,\n\n**COPY**\n\nPOSTAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT,\nGENERAL POST OFFICE,\nLONDON, E.C.1.\n\n16 October, 1937\n\n7\n\nI am directed by the Postmaster General to say that the Postal Administration of Hong Kong proposes to adopt, as from the 1st of November, the following equivalents of the registration fee, the advice of delivery fees and the enquiry fee:\n\n| Fee Type | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Registration fee | 25 cents |\n| Fee for an advice of delivery applied for at the time of posting | 25 cents |\n| Fee for an advice of delivery applied for after posting, and enquiry fee | 25 cents |\n\nThe Postmaster General would be much obliged if you would be good enough to inform the Director of the International Bureau accordingly.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nThe Director General of Posts and Telegraphs,\n**SERNE.**\n(va) A. Gorden.\n\nCopy",
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        "content_text": "## P.O. Ref. 19421/37\n\n\"The Director of Postal Services presents his compliments to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, transmits herewith copy of the undermentioned paper.\n\nGeneral Post Office, October 1937\n\nRECEIVED\n7- OCT 1937\nC. O. ROY\n\nReference to previous correspondence:\nColonial Office letter to the General Post Office No. 53744/87 of the 2nd of October, 1937.\nPostmaster General, Hong Kong letter of the 5th of October, 1937\n\n## ENCLOSURE\n\nto the Director General of Posts and Telegraphs, Berne, Switzerland.\n\n**Subject**\nProposed increases in rates of postage in Hong Kong.\n\n`ORS. K 383`\n\n(Similar letter sent to~) `S043 7P1/3 ?M-2`",
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        "content_text": "## P.O. Reference \n522.18.7. \n19721/37. \n**COPY**\n\nPOSTAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT, \nGeneral Post Office, \nLONDON, E.C.1. \n5th October 1937.\n\n## 9\n\nSir, \n\nWith reference to your letter of the 23rd of July, 1936, I am directed by the Postmaster General to say that the Postal Administration of Hong Kong proposes to adopt, as from the 1st of November, the undermentioned equivalents of the international rates of postage for printed papers, commercial papers, blind literature and samples:-\n\nPrinted papers, commercial papers and samples of merchandise: 5 cents per 2 ounces; minimum charge of 25 cents for commercial papers and 10 cents for samples.\n\nBlind literature: 3 cents per 2 lb.\n\nThe Postmaster General would be much obliged if you would be good enough to inform the Director of the International Bureau accordingly.\n\nI am, Sir, \nYour obedient Servant, \nThe Director General of \n(sa.) W.J. Beale. \nPosts and Telegraphs, \nBERNE.",
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        "content_text": "Telephone: NATIONAL 6321\nTelegrams: Postgen Cent London\nYour Reference `53744/37`\n**RECEIVED**\n\n4.\n\n**POSTAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT, GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON, E.C.1.**\n28 September, 1937.\n\n14\nP.O. Reference `19721/37`\n2\n\nSir,\n\n29 SEP 1937\nC. O. REGY\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 24th of September, enclosing a copy of a telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong proposing certain increases in the rates of postage in Hong Kong as from the 12th of October, I am directed by the Postmaster General to say, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that he has no observations to offer regarding the proposed rates. I am, however, to say that in accordance with the provisions of Article 105, § 1, of the Detailed Regulations of the Cairo Convention, any alterations of the equivalents of the international postage rates laid down by the Postal Union Convention can only enter into force on the first day of a month and at the soonest fifteen days after their notification by the International Bureau of the Universal Postal Union.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\nCOLONIAL OFFICE.\n\n15",
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        "content_text": "In these circumstances, the Postmaster General suggests that \nthe alterations should be brought into force on the 1st of November, \nand, if the Secretary of State concurs, a letter in the terms of the \nenclosed draft shall be sent at once to the Swiss Post Office.\n\nI am, Sir,  \nYour obedient Servant,  \nBohumiley.",
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        "content_text": "Quote ref: `522.18.7`\n\nP.0. ref: `19721/37`\n\n**DRAFT**\n\n16\n\nPostal Services Department,\nGeneral Post Office,\nLONDON, E.C.1.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 23rd of July, 1936, I am directed by the Postmaster General to say that the Postal Administration of Hong Kong proposes to adopt, as from the 1st of November, the undermentioned equivalents of the international rates of postage for printed papers, commercial papers, blind literature and samples:-\n\n| Category | Rate |\n| --- | --- |\n| Printed papers, commercial papers and samples of merchandise | 5 cents per 2 ounces; minimum charge of 25 cents for commercial papers and 10 cents for samples. |\n| Blind literature | 3 cents per 2 lb. |\n\nThe Postmaster General would be much obliged if you would be good enough to inform the Director of the International Bureau accordingly.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nThe Director General of Posts\nand Telegraphs,\nBERNE.\n\nk\nLea.(3)",
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        "content_text": "## Telegram from the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nDated 15th September, 1937, Received 10-49am 15th September,\n\nNo.193.\n`1/53744/36`\n\nMy telegram No.86 of 1936. Adoption of Union rate of 25 cents involves the following adjustments vide Postal Union Convention - printed paper, commercial paper, samples per two oz. from 4 cents to 5 with minimum charge commercial 25 cents samples 10 cents blind literature 2 to 3.\n\nExecutive Council approve. If you approve, please request Post Office to notify the International Bureau, Berne 15 days beforehand enabling revision effective 18th October.",
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        "content_text": "243\n\n8\n\nCONFERRING OF DEGREES\n\nNEED OF GIRL STUDENTS' HOSTEL AND PLAYING FIELDS URGED\n\nCHANCELLOR AND UNIVERSITY\n\nThe twenty-ninth Congregation of the Hongkong University for the conferring of degrees was held yesterday when His Excellency the Governor, Sir Geoffry Northcote, acted for the first time at this function in his capacity of Chancellor.\n\nMr. D. J. Sloss, C.B.E., M.A., referred to the lack of a hostel for the girl students, who had increased in numbers, and the insufficiency of playing fields generally. In a generous tribute to his predecessor, Mr. Sloss mentioned that a considerable number of books had been donated to the University by Sir William Hornell.\n\nThe Procession marshalled in the robing room soon after the Chancellor arrived and then, led by the Mace Bearer, walked through the cloisters.\n\nThe Chancellor declared the Congregation open, and the Vice-Chancellor made the opening address.\n\nMr. Sloss said: It has been customary for the Congregation to comment upon the events of the preceding year. As I have been here only two months I cannot do this, and therefore I shall limit myself in the main to obvious and non-controversial issues.\n\nA Royal Patron\n\nHis Excellency said: The past year has been notably eventful. During its passage the University lost a Chancellor in Sir Andrew Caldecott who, though his tenure of his office was short, took a keen interest in the welfare of the University.\n\nThe General Library of the University has been enriched by a gift of about 2,000 volumes from Sir William Hornell. Many of the books in Sir William's gift would now be difficult to obtain, and they increase the value of the Library.\n\nThe Chinese part of the Library has also found friends. Two large collections of good books, some in rare editions, lent from Canton for long periods of use in this Library.\n\nTo this I would like to add a few words to recall Sir William's eminent services to education before he came here—the achievements, in fact, with which were the use of his coming to Hongkong. He entered the Indian Education Service early in life and after seven years' distinguished work in Bengal he was recalled to the Board of Education in London where he worked in the Department of Special Enquiries and Reports with distinguished colleagues such as Sir Frank Heath and Mr. C: W. Twenty-four years later he came to Hongkong as Vice-Chancellor.\n\nSir William's hospitality was a fine influence in the University. His genial and kindly nature endeared him to his friends, and the memory of his geniality and his \"fairy god-mother\" kindnesses, which endeared him to a wide circle of friends and, not least, to the students of this University.\n\nOne of the oldest of Sir William's colleagues writes of him: \"During his thirteen years of office as Vice-Chancellor Sir William Hornell had many perplexities and problems to face. Throughout all these difficulties he always tried to do whatever he could to make members of his staff more efficient at their work and more contended in their conditions of service.\"\n\nHe returned to India in 1913 as Director of Public Instruction in Bengal.\n\nThe story of this University has been a story of transitions from crisis to crisis, and Sir William worthily filled a Vice-Chancellor's place.\n\nWilliam's place has been worthily filled by a Vice-Chancellor whose ripe experience makes him peculiarly welcome at the present juncture.\n\nThe Chancellor made a studied reference to the deliberations of the Committee which recently published recommendations for changes in the University administration, but laid most stress on the need for greater attention to the teaching of hygiene and the need for accommodation for girl students.\n\nThe University's great annual event was favoured by the weather, and the number of graduates in the University in 1937 has risen from a normal 50 to an actual 77.\n\nSeating and standing space and inside the Great Hall was fully occupied long before 5 p.m.\n\nThe Deans of the Faculties of Medicine, Engineering, and Arts then presented their graduates in succession, and the Chancellor conferred the respective degrees on each graduate, as they stepped forward with new hoods, and afterwards shook hands with each of them.\n\nThe Vice-Chancellor next read out the names of students in absentia on whom degrees were conferred, and presented the scholarship winners, with whom the Chancellor also shook hands.\n\nThe Graduates\n\nThe graduates of 1937 were:\n\nDegree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery.—R. E. Alvares, Oni Kee-wan, Yang Ke, M. P. H. Itoh, W. Heng, H. L. Ozorio. Yeang Cheng-hin Kan Lai-to, G. A. V. Ribeiro, Yeung Wai-Wah; in Absentia; Tan Eng-gwa.\n\nDegree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering. Chan Sze-cheung, Chin Weng-kwan, Wong Yee-wah, J. da Silva, Tan Pek-eam. Chung Chang Chi-yin, Ching Yok-chong, Lo Hung-pok, G. Singh, Sung Sheung-hong, Tan Yong-nee. Tránh Kai-ng. E. T. Wood, Chak Fook-yat. Liauw Khoon-lim, G. C. K. Ma, A. L. N. da Silva, Sung Taoong-tub\n\nDegree of Bachelor of Arts: Au Yeung-chiu, Chan Kai-lau, Cheung Wing-ngok, Ho Ying-fwee, Law Chung-kam, Leung Sik-kwan, Li Shi-yt, Mok Hing-bun, Wong Man-la. Boon Yeon-fong. Mg Tily Shuen Fo-yuen,_ Miss_Tam Wai-chit, Miss Chan. Miss Helen Chu. Hung Mo-chiu, Kai kwani Fook-shu, Lo Bung-chun, Miss Helen Moore, Sze Chiten, Tang Chi-keung, Yu Kwok-ylm, Chan Jm-fut, Chau Sing-kan, Chung Hon-ki, In Absentia.—Lee Kuan\n\nScholarships\n\nFollowing were the Scholarship awards:\n\nThe Anderson Medal, Yeang Cheng-hin.\n\nThe Ho Fook and Chan Kai Ming, 1st Medical Scholarship and the Ng Li Hing very ancient Scholarship, Daphne Chun.\n\nThe Ho Fook and Chan Kai Ming 2nd Medical Scholarship P. R. T. Naidu and G. A. V. Ribeiro, the Ho Fook and Chan Kai Ming Engineering Scholarship, G. M. Cornfeld.\n\nThe Ho Fook and Chan Kai Ming Arts Scholarship, Wu Hei-tak.\n\nPhysical Training\n\nIn one respect, I am advised, student life at the University might be quickened and that is by devoting a little more time and thought to generally collective Physical Training.\n\nAs is well known, modern thought to-day, puts into practice a growingly closer alliance between the mind and the body, and it would be wise to encourage and help members of the staff to attend scientific conferences in other parts of the world and the students of the University to travel for purposes of study.\n\nChancellor's Address\n\nHis Excellency said: I turn for a moment to a material need of the University which is becoming more and more urgent year by year. 90 were women. For them the University so far, has not been able to provide a residential hall, nor even a hostel in which they could be housed collectively.\n\nThus on the one hand they are without the discipline and tutelage which are essential conditions of sound student life, and on the other they are deprived of the experience of a corporate life which supplies a great stimulus to, and widens the horizon of, those who are fortunate enough to live in University colleges.\n\nMr. Sloss, the Vice-Chancellor, has just spoken of Sir William Hornell's many services to education and I would like to render a tribute to those members of this University who engage themselves in social activities in the interest of other less fortunate than themselves.\n\nI refer, of course, to the Education Society, the Medical Society, the Christian Association and the other bodies within the University which have as their aim the betterment of the poorest classes of the community.\n\nTheir service of love builds better than they know: for love alone is creative and ever transcends its conscious objectives.\n\nCommittee's Report\n\nBefore I end this address I would like to render a tribute to those members of this University who engage themselves in social activities in the interest of other less fortunate than themselves.\n\nCertain of them, for example the advice to invest most of the Superannuation Fund in the general funds of the University, appear to me to be non-controversial and to call for immediate implementation.\n\nThe report contains, however, many suggestions and recommendations concerning finance and organization which pertain to the Finance Committee and the Council rather than to the Senate and I trust that these will be considered by the former authorities while those concerning the curriculum are being considered by the latter.\n\nThe Courage with which (Applause).\n\nHis Excellency then declared the Congregation closed.\n\nProcession List\n\nThe Procession which comprised Members of the Court, Council, Senate and Faculties of the University and Wardens of the Hostels, was as follows:\n\nHis Excellency the Chancellor, preceded by the Mace Bearer, and followed by the Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Dean, Faculty of Arts; H. E. Major-General A. W. Bartholomew and The Registrar; H. H. Sir Atholl Mac-Gregor and Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith: The Vice-Chancellor; Faculty of Medicine; Treasurer and Dean, Rt. Rev. Bishop R. O. Hall and The Rt. Rev. Bishop Valtorta; Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster and Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North; Hon. Sir Henry Pollock and Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewail: Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow and Hon. Dr. D. J. Valentine; Hon. Mr. Chau Tsun-nin and Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell; Hon. Com. G. F. Hole, R.N. (Retd.) and Hon, Mr. T. H. King: Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo and Hon. Dr. LI_shu-fan; Hon. Mr. Leo D'Almada e Castro and Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson; Mr. Ho Kom-tong and Mr. Eu Tong-sen; Mr. Ts'o Seen-wan and Mr. Mok Ken-sang: Professor K. H. Digby and Professor C. A. M. Smith; Professor W. Brown and Professor G. T. Byrne; Professor M. H. Roffey and Professor L. Forster: Professor L. J. Davis and Professor W. Gerrard and Professor W. Faid: Dr. P. F. S. Court; Professor Hsu T-shan and Professor L, R. Shore: Mr. G. R. Sayer and Lt. Col. H. B. L. Dowbiggin; Mr. M.P. Talati and Mr. J. R. Masson: Mr. T. E. Pearce and Mr. F. J. de Rome; Mr. G. P. de Martin and Mr. P. S. Cassidy: Mr. D. Drummond and Mr. J. H. Seth; Mr. Sum Pak-ming and Mr. E. Cock; Mr. M. H. Turner and Mr. G. S. Archbutt: Mr. B. Wong Tape and Mr. Kan Tong-po; Mr. Li Jowson and Mr. Tang Shiu-kin; Mr. Li Tze-fong and Mr. J. K. Bousfield; Dr. G. A. C. Herklots and Mr. N. H. France; Mrs. M. Ring and Mr. Fung Kong-un; Mr. B. G. Birch and Mr. A. H. Fenwick; Mr. R A. Hill and Mr. D. F. Davies: Mr. A. H. Paterson and Mr. Ma Kiam; Mr. K. W. Salter and Mr. Baxter: Father B. C. Kelly, S. J. and Rev. Chan Kwan-po; Mr. S. V. Boxer and Miss G. K. Carpenter.\n\nThe programme of music was as follows:\n\nMarch. Triumph of Right, Lovell: Selection, Sandersons Songs, arr Hume; Waltz, The Golden Valse, arr Winter; Entr'ete, Thistledown, Hennessy; Selection, Lilac Time, Schubert.\" Processional March, Riengl, Wagner. Conductor, Mr. A. E. Judge.\n\nPage 8\n\nIMPROVISED BRIDGE\n\nWould-be Thief Falls Into Alleyway\n\nBOUND OVER BY COURT\n\nCharged with loitering in the alleyway between the St. Francis Hotel and Marina House at 3.30 a.m. on November 27, Ho Chik-sang. office coolie, appeared before Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy yesterday and pleaded guilty.\n\nDet, Sergeant Davies stated that defendant was employed by a firm on the third floor of the Marina House. On the morning in question, he went down to the first floor and entered a vacant office where some electrical repairs were being carried and so forth. That done, he took two lead pipes and placed them across the alleyway to the St. Francis Hotel, and started to walk across to the hotel. Midway, the pipes gave way, and he fell, from a height of about 30 feet, and had to receive medical attention. The defendant admitted that his intention was to commit a larceny in the hotel.\n\nHis Worship bound defendant over in the sum of $50 to be of good behaviour for a year, and remarked that he had learned a good lesson.\n\nHOUSEBREAKING ATTEMPT\n\nMr. D. Keys, of 3 Cameron Road, reported to the police on Tuesday that some person attempted to enter his house between 10 p.m. on January 3 and 8 a.m. on January 4, by boring a hole in the front door. The intruder was apparently disturbed before he could enter the house, and ran away without taking anything.\n\nOPENING TO-DAY KING'S\n\nErrol Flynn wields a mean blade to save the prince—or is it the pauper?\n\nYou, too, can attend the coronation—and see the world's most impressive ceremony!\n\nSee how one boy's bravery saved the throne of Britain from the gangsters of the court!\n\nALSO LATEST COLOURED CARTOON\n\n“I'M A BIG SHOT NOW”\n\nOnly Mark Twain Could Have Written It!\n\nOnly These Stars Could Have Played It!\n\nOnly Warner Bros. 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        "content_text": "Head 21.-POST OFFICE, WIRELESS AND BROADCASTING\n\nB.-WIRELESS,-Continued.\n\nPersonal Emoluments,—Continued.\n\nApproved Estimate, 1938.\n\nEstimate, 1939.\n\n$\n\nBrought forward\n\n198,429\n\n236,864\n\n$\n\nHead 21.-POST OFFICE, WIRELESS AND BROADCASTING\n\nApproved Estimate, 1938,\n\nEstimate, 1939.\n\nC. BROADCASTING (1)\n\n  \n    1.\n    Personal Emoluments\n    20,760\n  \n  \n    \n    Other Charges.\n    \n  \n  \n    2.\n    Artists and Announcers\n    25,000\n  \n  \n    3.\n    Incidental Expenses\n    2,500\n    9,200\n  \n  \n    4.\n    Printing\n    \n    4,000\n  \n  \n    5.\n    Records\n    \n    342\n  \n  \n    6.\n    Rent of Public Telephone\n    700\n    \n  \n  \n    7.\n    Rent of Studios and Offices\n    10,800\n    9,000\n  \n  \n    8.\n    Royalties and Reuter Fee\n    18,000\n    \n  \n  \n    9.\n    Translators and Occasional Staff\n    2,500\n    \n  \n  \n    10.\n    Uniforms\n    150\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Total Other Charges\n    \n    22,842\n  \n  \n    \n    Special Expenditure.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    11.\n    Cabinets for Records\n    200\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Total Special Expenditure\n    200\n    \n  \n\n  \n    NUMBERS.\n    1938\n    1939\n  \n  \n    TRAFFIC SECTION.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Traffic Superintendent, (£475 to £575 by £20 Annually)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    E\n    (1)\n    \n  \n  \n    Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff:-\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    (1) Higher Class (local section), ($4,600 to $5,600 by $200 annually).\n    1\n    1\n  \n  \n    \n    5,200\n    5,400\n  \n  \n    (2)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Class I Telegraphists, ($3,500 to $4,500 by $200 annually)\n    2\n    2\n  \n  \n    \n    9,200\n    \n  \n  \n    Class II Telegraphist, ($2,700 to $3,300 by $150 annually)\n    1\n    \n    3,300\n  \n  \n    L\n    (3)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Class III Telegraphists, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually)\n    13\n    13\n  \n  \n    \n    27,484\n    27,817\n  \n  \n    (2)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Class IV Telegraphists, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually)\n    15\n    13\n  \n  \n    \n    25,215\n    22,133\n  \n  \n    (+)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Class V Telegraphists, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually)\n    22\n    7\n  \n  \n    \n    27,912\n    8,518\n  \n  \n    Class VI Telegraphists, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100)\n    12\n    4\n  \n  \n    \n    9,628\n    3,183\n  \n  \n    Field Allowances to Telegraphists\n    \n    400\n    400\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Class I Clerk, ($3,500 to $4,500 by $200 annually)\n    1\n    3\n  \n  \n    \n    4,500\n    \n  \n  \n    Class III Clerk, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually)\n    \n    5,700\n  \n  \n    Class IV Clerks, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually)\n    2\n    \n    3,000\n  \n  \n    Class V Clerks and Shroffs, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually)\n    7\n    \n    8,783\n  \n  \n    Class VI Clerks and Shroffs, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100)\n    1\n    1\n  \n  \n    \n    883\n    388\n  \n  \n    Radio-postman Class I, ($350 to $450 by $20 annually)\n    1\n    1\n  \n  \n    \n    408\n    \n  \n  \n    Radio-postman Class II, ($276 to $348 by $12 annually)\n    1\n    1\n  \n  \n    \n    289\n    301\n  \n  \n    Radio-postmen Class III, ($204 to $264 by $12 annually)\n    18\n    7\n  \n  \n    \n    4,508\n    1,667\n  \n  \n    Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n    9\n    9\n  \n  \n    \n    1,906\n    1,441\n  \n  \n    Rent Allowances to 9 at $48 each\n    \n    432\n  \n  \n    Sunday and holiday work Allowances\n    \n    576\n  \n  \n    Acting Pay\n    \n    432\n  \n  \n    \n    8,100\n    5,000\n  \n  \n    Total Personal Emoluments\n    359,359\n    \n  \n\n(1) Post abolished.\n\n(2) Stipulated increments.\n\n(3) Remainder transferred to Cable & Wireless.\n\n(4) Four new posts.\n\n(5) Officer retired.\n\n(6) Transferred to Engineering Section.\n\n(7) Two to Engineering Section. Remainder transferred to Cable & Wireless.\n\n(8) Two new posts.\n\n(9) Fewer services and reduced staff.\n\n(10) Not required.\n\n  \n    NUMBERS.\n    1938\n    1939\n  \n  \n    Personal Emoluments.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Details of the foregoing.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Programme Secretary ($1,200 to $3,400 by $600 annually)\n    1\n    \n    7,800\n  \n  \n    Assistant Secretary ($4,600 to $5,600 by $200 annually)\n    1\n    \n    5,000\n  \n  \n    Chinese Secretary ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually)\n    1\n    \n    1,900\n  \n  \n    Chinese Assistant Secretary, $1,200\n    1\n    1,200\n    \n  \n  \n    Stenographer, $2,400\n    1\n    2,400\n    \n  \n  \n    Records Clerk, $1,050\n    1\n    1,050\n    \n  \n  \n    Office Attendant ($252 to $300 by $12 triennially)\n    1\n    252\n    \n  \n  \n    Messengers ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n    5\n    840\n    \n  \n  \n    Rent Allowances to 6 at $48 each\n    \n    288\n    \n  \n  \n    Total Personal Emoluments,\n    \n    63,992\n    20,760\n  \n\n(1) Previously under Miscellaneous Services.",
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        "content_text": "Head 21.-POST OFFICE, WIRELESS AND BROADCASTING\n\nHead 21.-POST OFFICE, WIRELESS AND\n\nBROADCASTING\n\n4.-POST OFFICE.\n\nSub-heads:-\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\nOther Charges.\n\nApproved Estimate, 1938.\n\nEstimate, 1939.\n\n$\n\n$\n\n366,800\n\n410,542\n\nHead 21.-POST OFFICE, WIRELESS AND BROADCASTING\n\nApproved Estimate, 1988.\n\nEstimate, 1939.\n\nA.-POST OFFICE,—Continued.\n\nPersonal Emoluments,-Continued.\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\n2 Air Mail Payment\n\n8 Air Mail Subsidy\n\n4 Carriage of Mails:-\n\nTransit Charges\n\n5 Cleansing Materials, Utensils and Washing\n\n6 Coolie Hire\n\n122,034\n\n122,034\n\n136,950\n\n140,000\n\n1,000\n\n300\n\n263,051 (1)\n\n100,000 (2)\n\n1,200\n\n300\n\n(3)\n\n69\n\nBrought forward\n\n207,452\n\n210,466\n\n7 Electric Fans and Lights\n\n12,000\n\n12,000\n\nNUMBERS.\n\n8 Gas.....\n\n253\n\n255\n\n9 Incidental Expenses\n\n800\n\n800\n\n1938 1939\n\n10 Mail Bags, Parcel Boxes, Date Stamps and Scales\n\n6,000\n\n6,000\n\n11 Printing\n\n500\n\n500\n\n17\n\n21\n\nClass V Postal Clerks\n\n12 Rent of Branch Offices\n\n1,050\n\n1,020\n\n(2)\n\nand Shroffs,\n\n13 Rent of Public Telephones..........\n\n557\n\n440\n\n(2)\n\n62\n\n87\n\nClass VI Postal Clerks\n\n($1,100 to $1,400 by $100]\n\nmonally) ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of\n\n23,064\n\n26,923\n\n14 Stamps.....\n\n15,000\n\n15,000\n\nand Shroffs,.\n\n15 Telegrams\n\n600\n\n600\n\n860,1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100).\n\n· (1)(2)\n\n48,664\n\n60,051\n\n16 Transport\n\n1,200\n\n1,500\n\n(4)\n\n6\n\n6\n\nLearners at $420 each\n\n2,520\n\n2,520\n\n17 Uniform and Equipment\n\n7,500\n\n14,000\n\n(8)\n\n4\n\n5\n\n1\n\n1\n\nTotal Other Charges\n\n445,746\n\n538,700\n\n11\n\n14\n\n70\n\n85\n\nLanuch Officers, ($1,550 to $2,100 by $50 annually) Head Postman, ($475 to $600 by $25 annually)... Postmen, 1st Class, ($350 to $450 by $20 annually)\n\nDo., 2nd Class, ($276 to $348 by\n\n6,364\n\n7,644\n\n(1)(2)\n\n600\n\n600\n\n4,795\n\n5,848\n\n(1)(2)\n\n$12\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\nannually)\n\n23,523\n\n27,759\n\n96\n\n188\n\nDo., 3rd Class, ($204 to $264\n\nby $12\n\n(1)(2)\n\n18 Pillar and Letter Boxes\n\n19 Two Typewriters\n\nMotor Mail Van\n\nElectric Clocks\n\n1,000\n\n4,500\n\n500\n\nNew Equipment Registration Branch....\n\n2,000\n\nTotal Special Expenditure\n\nTotal A-Post Office\n\n8,000\n\n820,546\n\nPersonal Emoluments.\n\n1,000\n\n782\n\nannually)\n\n23,582\n\n42,671\n\n(5)\n\n2\n\n2\n\nCoolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n\n312\n\n312\n\n16\n\n20\n\n· (6)\n\n1,782\n\nMail Bag Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)... Rent Allowances to Postmen, Coolies and Mail Bag\n\nCoolies, 230 at $48 each and 76 at $24 encli Overtime Allowances to Clerical Staff, Postmen\n\nand Coolies\n\n2,496\n\n3,120\n\n(2)\n\n6,696\n\n10,000\n\n12,864 (3)\n\n5,000 (4)\n\n3\n\n3\n\nMotor Drivers, (1 at $550 to $650 by $50 annually\n\n951,030\n\nand 2 at $550 to $650 by $25 armally)...\n\n1,820\n\n1,858\n\n(1)\n\nDo.,\n\nRent Allowance to 1 at $72\n\n72\n\n72\n\n1\n\n1\n\nCarpenter, ($300 to $360 by $12 annually).\n\n360\n\n360\n\nDo.. Rent Allowance....\n\n48\n\n48\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\nCadet Officers, Class II, (£525 to £1,400 by 3 of £50\n\n1 of £75 1 of £100 und 11 of £50)\n\n1\n\n1\n\nPainter, ($324 to $384 by $12 annually)\n\n384\n\n384\n\nDo., Rent Allowance .....\n\n48\n\n48\n\nActing Poy\n\n4,000\n\n2,000\n\n金\n\n(4)\n\nNUMBERS.\n\n1938\n\n1939 !\n\n2\n\n1\n\n42,307\n\n22,202 (7)\n\n1\n\n1\n\nAssistant Postmaster General and Chief Accountant\n\n(£1,250)\n\n16,800\n\n20,000 (8)\n\n1\n\n8\n\nController of Posts, (£600 10 £700 by £25 annually) Superintendents, (1 at £460 to £560 by £20 annually,\n\n9,939\n\n10,339 (9)(10)\n\n3 at £250 to £445 by 6 of £15, 2 of £30 and 3 of £15, 4 at $4,000 to $5,000 by $200 annually) Language Allowance to two,\n\n31,127\n\n390\n\n38,636\n\n390\n\n(11)(12)\n\n5\n\n6\n\nClass 1 Postal Clerks, ($3,500 to $1,500 by $200\n\nannually)\n\n21,288\n\n24,217\n\n10\n\n11\n\nClass II Postal Clerks, ($2,700 to $3,300 by $150\n\nannually)\n\n31,567\n\n33,528\n\n13\n\n15\n\nClass III Postal Clerks, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100\n\nannually)\n\n(12)\n\n29,438\n\n32,417\n\n14\n\n17\n\nClass IV Postal Clerks į ($1,500) to $1,800 by $100\n\nand Shroff's,\n\nannually)\n\n21,569\n\n28,787\n\nCarried forward\n\n207,152\n\n210,466\n\nIncreased subsidy\n\n(2) Considered sufficient.\n\n(3) Additional Staff and dearer material.\n\n(4) More mails.\n\n(5) Replacements,\n\n(6) Non-recurrent.\n\n(7) 1938 Estimates included one officer on leave,\n\n(8) Title changed from Chief Accountant. Revised\n\nsalary.\n\n(9) Stipulated increments.\n\n(10) Shown as Supt. of Mails in 1938 Estimates,\n\n(11) Shown 腮 Assistant Supts, of Mails in 1938\n\nEstimates,\n\n(12) New posts for extension of hours at G.P.O.\n\nTotal Personal Emoluments\n\n366,800\n\n(1) Stipulated increments.\n\n(2) New posts for extension of hours at G.P.0. and\n\nincreased mail deliveries.\n\n(3) Additional staff.\n\n(4) Considered sufficient.\n\n410,548\n\n83\n\n271",
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        "content_text": "274\n\n86\n\n# Head 21. POST OFFICE, WIRELESS AND BROADCASTING\n\nB.—WIRELESS,-Continued.\n\nApproved Estimate, 1938.\n\nEstimate, 1939.\n\n$\n\n$\n\nPersonal Emoluments,-Continued.\n\nBrought forward\n\n198,429\n\n236,864\n\n# Head 21.-POST OFFICE, WIRELESS AND BROADCASTING\n\nApproved Estimate, 1938.\n\nEstimate, 1939.\n\n$\n\nC.—BROADCASTING (1)\n\n$\n\n1. Personal Emoluments\n\n$\n\n20,760\n\nOther Charges.\n\n2. Artists and Announcers\n\nTRAFFIC SECTION.\n\nNUMBERS.\n\n1938\n\n1939\n\n1\n\n+++\n\nTraffic Superintendent, (£475 to £575 by £20 annually)\n\n9,200\n\n(1)\n\nSenior Clerical and Accounting Staff:-\n\n  \n    1\n    1\n    Higher Class (local section), ($4,600 to $5,600 by $200 annually)\n    5,200\n    5,400\n  \n  \n    2\n    2\n    Class I Telegraphists, ($3,500 to $4,300 by $200 annually)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    Class II Telegraphist, ($2,700 to $3,300 by $150 annually)\n    8,300\n    \n  \n  \n    13\n    13\n    Class III Telegraphists, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually)\n    27,484\n    27,817\n  \n  \n    15\n    13\n    Class IV Telegraphists, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually)\n    25,215\n    22,133\n  \n  \n    22\n    7\n    Class V Telegraphists, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually)\n    27,912\n    8,518\n  \n  \n    12\n    4\n    Class VI Telegraphists, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 8 of $50 and 2 of $100)\n    9,628\n    3,183\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Field Allowances to Telegraphists\n    400\n    400\n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    Class I Clerk, ($3,500 to $4,500 by $200 annually)\n    4,500\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    3\n    Class III Clerk, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually)\n    \n    5,700\n  \n  \n    2\n    \n    Class IV Clerks, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually)\n    3,000\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    7\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    4\n    1\n    Class V Clerks and Shroffs, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    1\n    Class VI Clerks and Shroffs, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Radio-postman Class I, ($350 to $450 by $20 annually)\n    388\n    408\n  \n  \n    1\n    1\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Radio-postman Class II, ($276 to $348 by $12 annually)\n    289\n    301\n  \n  \n    18\n    7\n    Radio-postmen Class III, ($204 to $264 by $12 annually)\n    4,508\n    1,667\n  \n  \n    12\n    9\n    Do., Rent Allowances to 9 at $48 each\n    960\n    432\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Do., Rent Allowances at $48 each\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Sunday and holiday work Allowances\n    1,906\n    1,441\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Acting Pay\n    576\n    432\n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    Programme Secretary ($7,200 to $8,400 by $600 annually)\n    8,100\n    5,000\n  \n  \n    (9)\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    Assistant Secretary ($4,600 to $5,600 by $200 annually)\n    5,000\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    Chinese Secretary ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually)\n    1,900\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1\n    Chinese Assistant Secretary, $1,200\n    \n    1,200\n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    Stenographer, $2,400\n    2,400\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    \n    Records Clerk, $1,080\n    1,080\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1\n    Office Attendant ($252 to $300 by $12 triennially)\n    \n    252\n  \n  \n    5\n    \n    Messengers ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n    840\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Rent Allowances to 6 at $48 each\n    288\n    \n  \n\n3. Incidental Expenses...\n\n4. Printing.\n\n5. Records\n\n6. Rent of Public Telephone\n\n7. Rem of Studios and Offices........\n\n8. Royalties and Reuter Fee\n\n9. Translators and Occasional Staff..\n\n10. Uniforms\n\n25,000\n\n2,500\n\n700\n\n4,000\n\n342\n\n10,800\n\n18,000\n\n2,500\n\n150\n\n9,000\n\n9,000\n\nNUMBERS.\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\n1938\n\n1939\n\n(1) Post abolished.\n\n(2) Stipulated increments.\n\n(3) Remainder transferred to Cable & Wireless.\n\n(4) Four new posts.\n\n(5) Officer retired.\n\n(6) Transferred to Engineering Section.\n\n(7) Two to Engineering Section. Remainder transferred to Cable & Wireless.\n\n(8) Two new posts.\n\n(9) Fewer services and reduced staff.\n\n(10) Not required.\n\nTotal Other Charges\n\n63,992\n\n84,952\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\n11. Cabinets for Records\n\n200\n\n200\n\nTotal Special Expenditure\n\n8,783\n\n3,881\n\nTotal C-Broadcasting\n\n20,760\n\n275\n\n87",
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        "content_text": "## Head 20. POST OFFICE, WIRELESS AND BROADCASTING\n\n### A. POST OFFICE,—Continued.\n\n#### Personal Emoluments,-Continued.\n\n| Description | Approved Estimate, 1940 | Estimate, 1940-41 | Numbers 1939 | Numbers 1940-41 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Brought forward | 210,466 | 268,848 |  |  |\n| Class V Postal Clerks and Shroffs, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually) | 26,923 | 32,894 | 21 | 26 |\n| Class VI Postal Clerks and Shroffs, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100) | 60,051 | 66,099 | 87 | 99 |\n| Learners at $420 each | 2,520 | 6,720 | 6 | 16 |\n| Launch Officers, ($1,550 to $2,100 by $50 annually) | 7,644 | 10,316 | 14 | 14 |\n| Head Postman, ($475 to $600 by $25 annually) | 690 | 750 | 1 | 1 |\n| Postmen, 1st Class, ($350 to $450 by $20 annually) | 3,150 | 5,848 | 85 | 85 |\n| Do., 2nd Class, ($276 to $348 by $12 annually) | 27,759 | 34,729 | 188 | 203 |\n| Do., 3rd Class, ($204 to $264 by $12 annually) | 42,671 | 58,064 | 312 | 390 |\n| Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) | 3,120 | 3,900 | 20 | 20 |\n| Mail Bag Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) | 7,245 | 12,864 | NO | 2 |\n| Rent Allowances to Postmen, Coolies and Mail Bag Coolies, 245 at $48 each and 76 at $24 each | 12,864 | 16,980 |  |  |\n| Overtime Allowances to Clerical Staff, Postmen and Coolies | 5,000 | 12,500 |  |  |\n| Carpenter, ($300 to $360 by $12 annually) | 360 | 450 | 1 | 1 |\n| 3 Motor Drivers, (1 at $550 to $650 by $50 annually and 2 at $550 to $650 by $25 annually) | 1,858 | 2,290 | 3 | 3 |\n| Rent Allowance to 1 at $72 | 72 | 90 |  |  |\n| Painter, ($324 to $384 by $12 annually) | 384 | 480 | 1 | 1 |\n| Rent Allowance | 48 | 60 |  |  |\n| Acting Pay | 2,000 | 2,000 |  |  |\n| **Total Personal Emoluments** | **410,548** | **536,751** |  |  |\n\n(1) Changes in personnel.\n(2) Twelve new posts.\n(3) Stipulated increments.\n(4) Fifteen new posts.\n(5) Considered necessary.",
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        "content_text": "# Head 20.-POST OFFICE, WIRELESS AND BROADCASTING\n## B.-WIRELESS,-Continued.\n\n### Personal Emoluments.-Continued.\n\nBrought forward | $204,826 | $279,318\n---|---|---\n | $236,364 | $320,215\n\n### NUMBERS.\n\n|  | 1939 | 1940-41\n---|---|---\nTRAFFIC SECTION. |  | \n### NUMBERS.\n\n|  | 1939 | 1940-41\n---|---|---\nClass IV Mechanicians, ($250 to $340 by $30) | 4 | 10\nRent Allowances at $48 excl |  | \nClass I Mechanicians, ($150 to $240 by $30) | 2 | 2\nDo. | 2,475 | 3,959\n | 384 | 600\n\n### Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff:-\nHigher Class (local section), ($4,600 to $5,600 by $200 annually) | 1 | 1\nRent Allowances at $48 each | 405 | 480\nLearner Mechanicians at 40 cents each per day | 5,400 | 2\nSunday and Holiday Allowances | AI | 2\n | 96 | 120\n | 7,000 | €\n\n|  | 1939 | 1940-41\n---|---|---\nClass I Telegraphists, ($3,500 to $4,500 by $200 annually) | 2 | 2\n | 9,000 | 11,000\nElectrical Fitter, ($1,000 to $1,600 by $75) | 1 | 1\n | 1,300 | 1,725\nNo. 1 Riggers, ($600 to $950 by $50) | 2 | 4\n | 1,951 | 3,800\nSwitchboard Attendants, ($750) | 1 | -\nNo. 1 Carpenters, ($500 to $900 by $50) | 2 | 4\nNo. 2 Carpenter at $1.00 per day | 456 | 456\nDo. | ($360 to $570 by $30) | 900 | 1,763\n | 843 | 625\nRent Allowance at $48 | 965 | -\nRigger's Mate at $1.25 per day. | 456 | 456\n | 60 | 60\n\n|  | 1939 | 1940-41\n---|---|---\nClass II Telegraphists, ($2,700 to $3,300 by $150 annually) | (3) | 13\n |  | 35,910\nClass III Telegraphists, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually) | 9 | 13\n | 17,817 | 27,817\nClass IV Telegraphists, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually) | (3) | 11\n |  | 11,250\n | (5) | 6,825\nClass V Telegraphists, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually) | 25,867 | (3)\n | (5) | 22,133\n | (4) | 24,066\n | 7 | 21\n | 8,618 | 23,310\nCooks at $312 each | 3 | J\n | 936 | 1,170\nClass VI Telegraphists, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 8 of $50 and 2 of $100) | 32,654 | (5)\n | 6 | -\n | 3,183 | பா\nDo., Rent Allowances at $24 each | 72 | 90\nSereunt at $276 | 1 | -\n | 276 | 345\nField Allowances to Telegraphists | 5,410 | (6)\n | 400 | 600\nDo., Rent Allowance at $24 | 24 | 30\n\n|  | 1939 | 1940-41\n---|---|---\nRadio-postman Class I ($350 to $450 by $20 annually) | 1 | 1\nWireman at 75 cents per day | 274 | (5)\n | 405 | 539\nCoolies 1 at $240 p.a., 18 at 60 cents each and 2 at 50 cents each day |  | 21\n |  | 4,839\n |  | 3,411\nRadio-postman Class II, ($276 to $348 by $12 annually) | 1 | (6)\n | 301 | -\nDo., Rent Allowance to 1 at $24 | 24 | 30\nNight Watchmen at 60 cents per day | 7 | 7\n | 2 | 2\n | 219 | 547\nRadin-postmen Class III, ($204 to $264 by $12 annually) | (3) | 1,667\n | 391 | 2,121\n | (1) | (1)\nMessengers, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) | 3 | 8\n | 526 | 654\nDo., Rent Allowances at $48 each | 141 | 180\n\n|  | 1939 | 1940-41\n---|---|---\nCleaners, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) | 9 | 2\n | 361 | 465\nDo., Rent Allowances at $48 each | 2 | 2\n | 96 | 120\nDo., Rent Allowances to 9 at $48 each | 432 | 540\nCoolies, ($136 to $204 by $12 triennially) | 1,441 | -\nDo., Rent Allowances at $48 each | 432 | -\nSunday and holiday work Allowances | 1,841 | 540\n | (1) | (1)\nField Allowances | 5,000 | 6,250\n | 150 | 188\n\n|  | 1939 | 1940-41\n---|---|---\nClass III Clerks ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100) | 3 | 3\n | 5,775 | 7,500\nClass V Clerks ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100) | 2 | 2\n |  | 3,200\nClass VI Clerks ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100) | 2 | 2\n | 1,575 | 2,148\nTemporary Clerks for 6 months ($480) | 3 | -\nActing Pay | 500 | 720\n | (8) | (8)\n | 900 | -\n\nTotal Personal Emoluments | 322,496 | 446,012\n | (9) | (9)\nCarried forward | 286,364 | 320,215\n\n(1) One in place of one Switchboard Attendant and one in place of one Wireman.\n(2) Replaced by a Class I Mechanician.\n(3) One new post.\n(4) In place of one Coolie.\n(5) One replaced by a Class IV Mechanician.\n(6) One replaced by No. 2 Carpenter.\n(7) Stipulated increments.\n(8) New posts.\n(9) More acting pay required\n\n(1) Stipulated increments.\n(2) Two promoted from Class III.\n(3) Two promoted to Class II and two replaced by Class V Telegraphists.\n(4) Two replaced by Class VI Telegraphists.\n(5) Two to replace two Class III Telegraphists and twelve new posts.\n(6) Two to replace two Class IV Telegraphists.",
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        "content_text": "# Head 20. POST OFFICE, WIRELESS AND BROADCASTING\n\n## Approved Estimate, 1940.\n## Estimate, 1940-41.\n\n### 4.—POST OFFICE,—Continued.\n\n#### Personal Emoluments,—Continued.\n\nBrought forward | 210,466 | 268,848\n---------|----------|----------\n\n**NUMBERS.** | 1939 | 1940-41\n---------|----------|----------\n21 Class V Postal Clerks and Shroffs | 87 | 99\nClass VI Postal Clerks ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually) ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100) | 26,923 | 32,894\nLearners at $420 each | 2,520 | 3,150\n1 Launch Officers, ($1,550 to $2,100 by $50 annually) | 1 | 1\n14 Head Postman, ($475 to $600 by $25 annually) | 14 | 14\n85 Postmen, 1st Class, ($350 to $450 by $20 annually) | 85 | 85\nDo., 2nd Class, ($276 to $348 by $12 annually) | 7,644 | 10,316\nDo., 3rd Class, ($204 to $261 by $12 annually) | 600 | 750\n20 Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) | 5,848 | 7,245\nMail Bag Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) | 27,759 | 34,729\nRent Allowances to Postmen, Coolies and Mail Bag Coolies, 245 at $48 each and 76 at $24 each | 188 | 203\nOvertime Allowances to Clerical Staff, Postmen and Coolies | 42,671 | 58,064\n3 Motor Drivers, (1 at $550 to $650 by $50 annually and 2 at $550 to $650 by $25 annually) | 390 | 3,900\nRent Allowance to 1 at $72 | 12,864 | 16,980\n1 Carpenter, ($300 to $360 by $12 annually) | 5,000 | 12,500\nDo., Rent Allowance | 3 | 3\n1 Painter, ($324 to $384 by $12 annually) | 1,858 | 2,290\nDo., Rent Allowance | 72 | 90\nActing Pay | 360 | 450\n | 384 | 480\n | 48 | 60\n | 2,000 | 2,000\n\nTotal Personal Emoluments | 410,548 | 536,751\n\n(1) Changes in personnel.\n(2) Twelve new posts.\n(3) Stipulated increments.\n(4) Fifteen new posts.\n(5) Considered necessary.\n\nPage 330\nPage 331",
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        "content_text": "# Head 20.-POST OFFICE, WIRELESS AND BROADCASTING\n## B. WIRELESS,-Continued\n\n### Approved Estimate, 1939\n### Estimate, 1940-41\n\n$204,826 | $279,318\n\n## Head 20.-POST OFFICE, WIRELESS AND BROADCASTING\n### B. WIRELESS,-Continued\n\n### Personal Emoluments, Continued\n\nBrought forward | $236,364 | $320,215\n\n| NUMBERS | 1939 | 1940-41 | NUMBERS | 1939 | 1940-41 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | 8 | 10 |  | 2 | 2 |\n| Class IV Mechanicians, ($250 to $340 by $30) |  |  | 2,475 | 3,939 |  |\n| Rent Allowances at $48 each |  |  | 384 | 600 | (1) |\n| Class V Mechanicians, ($150 to $240 by $30) |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff: | 1 |  | 105 | 480 |  |\n| Rent Allowances at $48 each | 2 | 2 | 96 | 120 |  |\n| 1 Higher Class (local section), ($1,600 to $5,000 by $200 annually) |  |  | 5,400 | 7,000 | (1) |\n|  |  |  | 292 | 365 |  |\n| 2 Class I Telegraphists, ($3,500 to $4,500 by $200 annually) | 2 | 2 | 9,000 | 9,000 |  |\n| Electrical Fitter, ($1,000 to $1,300 by $75) | 1 | 1 | 1,300 | 1,300 | (2) |\n| No. 1 Riggers, ($600 to $950 by $50) | 1 | 2 | 950 | 1,951 |  |\n| No. 1 Carpenters, ($500 to $900 by $50) | 4 | 4 |  |  |  |\n| No. 2 Carpenter at $1.00 per day | 2 | 2 | 900 | 1,763 |  |\n| Switchboard Attendants, ($750) | 1 | 1 |  |  |  |\n| Do. ($360 $370 by $30) | 1 | 1 | 456 | 456 |  |\n| Rigger's Mate at $1.25 per day. |  |  | 60 | 570 |  |\n| Rent Allowance at $48 | 2 | 2 | 96 | 96 |  |\n| Class II Telegraphists, ($2,700 to $3,300 by $150 annually) | (3) | (3) | 11,250 | 6,825 | (3) |\n| Class III Telegraphists, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually) | 13 | 9 | 27,817 |  |  |\n| Class IV Telegraphists, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually) | 25,867 (3) | (3) | 22,133 |  |  |\n| Class V Telegraphists, $1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually | 24,066 (4) | (4) | 8,418 | 32,654 | (6) |\n| Class VI Telegraphists, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100) |  |  | 8,183 |  |  |\n| Cooks at $312 each... | 3 | 3 | 936 | 1,170 |  |\n| Servant at $276 | 1 | 1 | 276 | 345 |  |\n| Field Allowances to Telegraphists. |  |  | 5,410 (6) | 400 | 600 |\n| Do., Rent Allowance at $24 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 30 |  |\n| Radio-postman Class I ($550 to $450 by $20 annually) | 1 | 1 | 405 | 539 | (1) |\n| Wireman at 75 cents per day.. |  |  | 274 |  |  |\n| Coolies 1 at $240 p.a., 18 at 60 cents each and 2 at 50 cents each per day | 21 | 22 | 4,839 | 5,411 | (5) |\n| Radio-postman Class II, ($276 to $348 by $12 annually) | 1 | 1 | 301 | 394 | (1) |\n| Do Rent Allowance to 1 at $24.. | 1 | 1 | 24 | 30 |  |\n| Radio-postmen Class III, ($204 to $264 by $12 annually) | 7 | 7 | 1,667 | 2,121 | 540 (1) |\n| Night Watchmen at 60 cents per day | 1 | 2 | 219 | 547 | (3) |\n| Messengers, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) | 3 | 3 | 526 | 654 |  |\n| Do. Rent Allowances at $48 each | 2 | 2 | 96 | 120 |  |\n| Cleaners, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) | 9 | 9 | 361 | 463 | (7) |\n| Beat Allowances at $48 each |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Field Allowances |  |  | 150 | 188 |  |\n| Do Rent Allowances to 9 at $48 each |  |  | 432 | 432 |  |\n| Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) | 9 | 9 | 1,441 | 1,841 | 540 (1) |\n| Do., Rent Allowances at $48 each .... |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Sunday and holiday work Allowances.................................................... |  |  | 5,000 | 6,250 |  |\n| Class III Clerks ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100) | 3 | 3 | 5,775 | 7,500 |  |\n| Class V Clerks ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100). | 2 | 2 | 2,550 | 3,200 |  |\n| Class VI Clerks ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100). | 2 | 2 | 1,575 | 2,144 |  |\n| Temporary Clerks for 6 months ($460).. | 3 |  | 720 |  |  |\n| Total Personal Emoluments |  |  | 322,106 |  |  |\n| Acting Pay |  |  | 500 | 900 | (9) |\n| Carried forward | $236,364 | $320,215 |  |  |  |\n\n(1) Stipulated increments.  \n(2) Replaced by Class I Mechanician.  \n(3) One new post.  \n(4) In place of one Coolie.  \n(5) One replaced by a Class IV Mechanician,  \n(6) One replaced by No. 2 Carpenter.  \n(7) Stipulated increments.  \n(8) New posts.  \n(9) More acting pay required  \n\n(1) Stipulated increments.  \n(2) Two promoted from Class III.  \n(3) Two promoted to Class II and two replaced by Class V Telegraphists.  \n(4) Two replaced by Class VI Telegraphists.  \n(5) Two to replace two Class III Telegraphists and twelve new posts.  \n(6) Two to replace two Class IV Telegraphists.",
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        "content_text": "171\n\n98\n\nHead 20.-POST OFFICE, WIRELESS AND BROADCASTING\n\nApproved Estimate, 1940-41.\n\nEstimate, 1941-1942,\n\nB.-WIRELESS,-Continued.\n\n$\n\nPersonal Emoluments, Continued.\n\nBrought forward\n\n279,318\n\n232,325\n\n172\n\nHead 20.-POST OFFICE, WIRELESS AND BROADCASTING\n\n99\n\nApproved Estimate, 1940-41.\n\nEstimate, 1941-1942.\n\nB.-WIRELESS,—Continued.\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\nPersonal Emoluments,-Continued.\n\nBrought forward\n\n320,215\n\n265,602\n\n  \n    NUMBERS.\n    1940-41\n    1941-42\n  \n  \n    TRAFFIC SECTION,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Class IV Mechanicians, ($250 to $340 by $30)\n    10\n    10\n  \n  \n    Do..\n    2\n    4\n  \n  \n    Rent Allowances at $48 each Class 1 Mechanicians, ($150 to $240 by $30)\n    3,959\n    8,244\n  \n  \n    Do.,\n    600\n    480\n  \n  \n    Rent Allowances at $48 each\n    120\n    192\n  \n  \n    Learner Mechanicians at 40 cents each per day.....\n    2\n    2\n  \n  \n    Sunday and Holiday Allowances.......\n    365\n    2,500\n  \n  \n    No, 1 Riggers, ($600 to $950 by $50)\n    2\n    2\n  \n  \n    No. 1 Carpenters, ($500 to $900 by $50)\n    1,951\n    1,576\n  \n  \n    \n    1,763\n    1,463\n  \n  \n    NUMBERS.\n    1940-41\n    1941-42\n  \n  \n    Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff:-\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Higher Class (local section), ($4,600 to $5,000 by $200 annually)\n    1\n    1\n  \n  \n    \n    7,000\n    \n  \n  \n    Class I Telegraphists, ($3,500 to $4,500 by $200 annually)\n    2\n    2\n  \n  \n    \n    11,250\n    9,000\n  \n  \n    No. 2 Carpenter at $1.00 per day\n    1\n    1\n  \n  \n    \n    456\n    365\n  \n  \n    Class II Telegraphists, ($2,700 to $3,300 by $150 annually)\n    2\n    2\n  \n  \n    Switchboard Attendants, ($750)\n    4\n    4\n  \n  \n    \n    6,825\n    5,676\n  \n  \n    Do..\n    1\n    1\n  \n  \n    ($360 to $570 by $30)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    625\n    535\n  \n  \n    Class III Telegraphists, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually)\n    9\n    9\n  \n  \n    Rent Allowance at $48\n    11\n    11\n  \n  \n    \n    25,867\n    \n  \n  \n    Rigger's Mate at $1.25 per day.\n    1\n    1\n  \n  \n    \n    570\n    456\n  \n  \n    Class IV Telegraphists, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually)\n    3\n    3\n  \n  \n    Cooks at $312 each......\n    11\n    11\n  \n  \n    \n    24,066\n    20,059\n  \n  \n    Do., Rent Allowances at $24 each....\n    3\n    3\n  \n  \n    \n    *1#,968\n    (3)\n  \n  \n    \n    90\n    72\n  \n  \n    Class V Telegraphists, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually)\n    21\n    21\n  \n  \n    Servant at $276\n    1\n    1\n  \n  \n    \n    32,654\n    26,231\n  \n  \n    Do., Rent Allowance at $24\n    (2)\n    (2)\n  \n  \n    \n    30\n    24\n  \n  \n    Class VI Telegraphists, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60,\n    21\n    21\n  \n  \n    Coolies 1 at $240 p.a., 18 at 60 cents each and 2 at\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100)\n    5,410\n    6,082\n  \n  \n    50 cents each per day\n    5,411\n    4,547\n  \n  \n    Field Allowances to Telegraphists\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    500\n    (8) 150 (4)\n  \n  \n    Do., Rent Allowance to 1 at $24...\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    30\n    24\n  \n  \n    Radio-postman Class 1, ($350 to $150 by $20 annually)\n    1\n    1\n  \n  \n    \n    20\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2\n    2\n  \n  \n    Night Watchmen at 60 cents per day\n    3\n    3\n  \n  \n    \n    2\n    2\n  \n  \n    Do., Rent Allowances at $48 each\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Cleaners, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n    547\n    438\n  \n  \n    \n    539\n    450 (2)\n  \n  \n    Messengers, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    65+\n    529\n  \n  \n    \n    (3)\n    (3)\n  \n  \n    \n    1\n    1\n  \n  \n    Radio-postman Class II, ($276 to $348 by $12 annually)\n    180\n    144\n  \n  \n    \n    394\n    328 (2)\n  \n  \n    \n    465\n    354 (8)\n  \n  \n    \n    7\n    7\n  \n  \n    Radio-postmen Class III, ($204 to $264 by $12 annually)\n    120\n    96\n  \n  \n    \n    188\n    50 (4)\n  \n  \n    \n    TO ON ON\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    3\n    2\n  \n  \n    \n    2\n    2\n  \n  \n    GC AI A\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    3 Class III Clerks, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100)\n    3\n    3\n  \n  \n    \n    7,500\n    6,109\n  \n  \n    \n    (1)\n    (1)\n  \n  \n    Do., Rent Allowances to 9 at $48 each Coolies, (156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n    9\n    9\n  \n  \n    \n    2,121\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    540 !\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1,728\n    432\n  \n  \n    \n    1,841\n    1,452\n  \n  \n    རྒྱ。。 ཀྱ རྒྱ རྒྱབ ཧ\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Class V Clerks, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100)\n    2\n    2\n  \n  \n    \n    3,200\n    2,550 (3)\n  \n  \n    \n    2\n    \n  \n  \n    Class VI Clerks, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100).\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Do.. Rent Allowances at $48 each Sunday and holiday work Allowances.........................\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    540\n    432\n  \n  \n    \n    6,250\n    5,000\n  \n  \n    \n    2,148\n    1,800\n  \n  \n    \n    (1)\n    (1)\n  \n  \n    Temporary Clerks for 6 months ($450)..\n    3\n    3\n  \n  \n    \n    720\n    720\n  \n  \n    Acting Pay\n    |\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    900\n    500\n  \n  \n    \n    (4)\n    (4)\n  \n  \n    Total Personal Emoluments\n    446,012\n    361,585\n  \n  \n    Carried forward.....\n    320,215\n    265,602\n  \n\n(1) Stipulated increments.\n\n(3) Changes in personnel.\n\n(2) Two learners promoted to Class V Mechanicians.\n\n(4) Considered sufficient.\n\n(1) Salary provided under War Expenditure.\n\n(2) Stipulated increments.\n\n(3) Changes in personnel. (4) Considered sufficient,",
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        "content_text": "336\n\n96\n\n# Head 20.-POST OFFICE, WIRELESS AND BROADCASTING\n\nApproved Estimate, 1940-41.\n\nEstimate, 1941-1942.\n\n## A.-POST OFFICE,—Continued.\n\n### Personal Emoluments,-Continued.\n\n€\n\nBrought forward\n\n268,848\n\n224,342\n\n  \n    NUMBERS.\n    1940-41\n    1941-42\n  \n  \n    21\n    21\n    \n  \n  \n    Class V Postal Clerks and Shroffs,\n    99\n    99\n  \n  \n    Class VI Postal Clerks and Shroffs,... ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually). ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60,1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100).\n    32,894\n    27,803\n  \n  \n    (1)\n    81,555\n    73,309\n  \n  \n    6\n    6\n    \n  \n  \n    Learners at $420 each\n    3,150\n    2,520\n  \n  \n    5\n    5\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    1\n    \n  \n  \n    14\n    14\n    \n  \n  \n    85\n    85\n    \n  \n  \n    Launch Officers, ($1,550 to $2,100 by $50 annually) Head Postman, ($475 to $600 by $25 annually)............. Postmen, 1st Class, ($350 to $450 by $20 annually){\n    10,316\n    8,815\n  \n  \n    Do., 2nd Class, ($276 to $348 by $12 annually)\n    7,245\n    5,945\n  \n  \n    \n    34,729\n    28,133\n  \n  \n    (1)\n    203\n    203\n  \n  \n    Do., 3rd Class, ($204 to $264 by $12 annually)\n    58,064\n    48,200\n  \n  \n    (1)\n    20\n    NO\n  \n  \n    2\n    20\n    120\n  \n  \n    Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n    390\n    312\n  \n  \n    Mail Bag Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially).......\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Rent Allowances to Postmen, Coolies and Mail Bag Coolies, 245 at $48 each and 76 at $24 each\n    3,900\n    3,120\n  \n  \n    Overtime Allowances to Clerical Staff, Postmen and Coolies\n    16,980\n    13,581\n  \n  \n    \n    12,500\n    10,000\n  \n  \n    3\n    3\n    \n  \n  \n    Motor Drivers, (1 at $550 to $650 by $50 annually and 2 at $550 to $650 by $25 annually)....\n    2,290\n    1,858\n  \n  \n    (1)\n    1\n    1\n  \n  \n    Do., Do.. Rent Allowance..\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    | Painter, ($324 to $384 by $12 annually)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Rent Allowance.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Do, Acting Pay\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Rent Allowance to 1 at $72\n    90\n    72\n  \n  \n    Carpenter, ($300 to $360 by $12 annually)\n    450\n    360\n  \n  \n    \n    60\n    48\n  \n  \n    \n    480\n    335\n  \n  \n    (2)\n    60\n    48\n  \n  \n    \n    2,000\n    2,000\n  \n  \n    (3)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total Personal Emoluments\n    536,751\n    451,288\n  \n\n(1) Stipulated increments.\n\n(2) Changes in personnel.\n\n(3) Considered necessary.",
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        "content_text": "338\n\n339\n\n98\n\nHead 20.-POST OFFICE, WIRELESS AND BROADCASTING\nHead 20.-POST OFFICE, WIRELESS AND BROADCASTING\n99\n\nApproved Estimate, 1940-41.\n\nEstimate, 1941-1942,\n\nApproved Estimate, 1940-41.\n\nEstimate, 1941-1942.\n\nB.-WIRELESS,—Continued.\nPersonal Emoluments,Continued.\nBrought forward\n\n$\n\n279,318\n\n232,325\n\nB.-WIRELESS,-Continued.\n$\n\n$\n\nPersonal Emoluments,-Continued.\nBrought forward\n\n320,215\n\n265,602\n\nNUMBERS.\n1940-41\n1941-42\n\nTRAFFIC SECTION.\n\n10\n10\n\n2\n4\n\nClass IV Mechanicians, ($250 to $340 by $30)\n\nDo.,\n\nRent Allowances at $48 each\n8,959\n3,244\n\nClass V Mechanicians, ($150 to $240 by $30)\n(1)\n\nNUMBERS.\n600\n480\n\n1940-41\n480\n750\n\n1941-42\n(2)\n\nSenior Clerical and Accounting Staff:\n\n2\n\nRent Allowances at $48 each\n120\n192\n\nLearner Mechanicians at 40 cents each per day......\n1\n1\n\n365\n(2)\n\nHigher Class (local section), ($4,600 to $5,000 by $200 annually)\n7,000\n(3)\n\nSunday and Holiday Allowances..\n2,500\n2,000\n\n2\n2\n\nNo. 1 Riggers, ($600 to $950 by $50)\n1,951\n1,575\n\n2\n2\n\nNo. 1 Carpenters, ($300 to $900 by $50)\n1,763\n1,463\n\nee\n2\n2\n\nClass I Telegraphists, ($3,500 to $4,500 by $200 annually)\n11,250\n9,000\n\n1\n\nNo. 2 Carpenter at $1.00 per day\n456\n365\n\n2\n2\n\nClass II Telegraphists, ($2,700 to $3,300 by $150 annually)\n6,825\n5,676\n\n1\n\nSwitchboard Attendants, ($750)\n3,750\n3,000\n\nDo.,\n\n($360 to $570 by $30)\n625\n585\n\n(1)\n\n9\n9\n\nClass III Telegraphists, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually)\n25,867\n20,059\n\n(3)\n\n1\n1\n\nRigger's Mate at $1.25 per day...\n570\n456\n\n11\n11\n\nClass IV Telegraphists, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually)\n24,066\n18,968\n\n(3)\n\n3\n3\n\nCooks at $312 each......\n1,170\n936\n\nDo.,\n\nRent Allowances at $24 each..........\n90\n72\n\n21\n21\n\nClass V Telegraphists, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually)\n32,654\n26,231\n\n(2)\n\n1\n1\n\nServant at $276....\n345\n276\n\nDo.,\n\nRent Allowance at $24.\n30\n24\n\n6\n6\n\nClass VI Telegraphists, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100)\n5,410\n6,082\n\n(8)\n\n21\n21\n\nCoolies 1 at $240 p.a., 18 at 60 cents each and 2 at 50 cents each per day\n5,411\n4,547\n\nField Allowances to Telegraphists\n500\n150\n\nDon\n\nRent Allowance to 1 at $24.....\n30\n21\n\n1\n\nRadio-postman Class I, ($350 to $450 by $20 annually)\n539\n450\n\nON TO\n\n2\n2\n\nNight Watchmen at 60 cents per day\n547\n438\n\n3\n3\n\nMessengers, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n651\n529\n\n(3)\n\n1\n1\n\nDo.,\n\nRent Allowances at $48 each\n180\n144\n\nRadio-postman Class II, ($276 to $348 by $12 annually)\n394\n324\n\n(2)\n\n2\n2\n\nCleaners, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n465\n354\n\n|(8)\n\n7\n7\n\nRadio-postmen Class III, ($204 to $264 by $12 annually)\n2,121\n\nDo.,\n\nRent Allowances at $48 each\n120\n96\n\nField Allowances\n188\n50\n\n59 ON IN\n\n3\n3\n\nClass III Clerks, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100)\n7,500\n6,109\n\n2\n2\n\nClass V Clerks, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100)\n3,200\n2,550\n\n(3)\n\n2\n+2\n\n| Class VI Clerks, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100).\n2,148\n1,800\n\ne sec\n\n9\n9\n\nDo.,\n\nRent Allowances to 9 at $48 each\n540\n\nCoolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n1,728\n432\n\nDo.,\n\nRent Allowances at $48 each\n540\n432\n\nSunday and holiday work Allowances...\n6,250\n5,000\n\n1\n(1)\n\n3\n3\n\nTemporary Clerks for 6 months ($480)..\n720\n720\n\nActing Pay\n900\n500\n\n(4)\n\nTotal Personal Emoluments\n446,012\n361,585\n\nCarried forward.......\n\n(1) Stipulated increments.\n320,215\n\n(3) Changes in personnel.\n\n(2) Two learners promoted to Class V Mechanicians.\n265,602\n\n(4) Considered sufficient,\n\n(1) Salary provided under War Expenditure, (2) Stipulated increments.\n\n(3) Changes in personnel. (4) Considered sufficient.",
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        "content_text": "# Mu \n\nThis star \n11.3.42 \n7 \n\n**VISCOUNT KATO**, ex-manager \nof the London branch of the Yokohama Specie Bank, was at his desk in Prince's Gate today. \n66 \n\nThe Viscount cannot be disturbed,\" I was told by his Japanese woman secretary. \n\nIn another part of the building the Japanese Embassy staff remain under the same police guard, which has watched over them since the Japanese declared war. No additional restrictions have been placed on them, following Mr. Eden's disclosure of the Hong Kong atrocities. \n\nBut Viscount Kato and his wife are free to move about as they please. \n\n## Visit To Bond-street \n\nTHE VISCOUNTESS, today, in fact, went to a beauty salon in Bond-street to have her hair done and her face massaged. \nShe came without an escort,” the manageress told me. \"Apparently she is free to go about without any restriction. I knew that none of my assistants would attend to her. Nor did I want her in the salon. \n\n\"How could I place her beside an Englishwoman whose husband may be serving abroad? \n\"So I took her into my office and told her politely that I would prefer she left. She seemed surprised. I pointed out that she was receiving very different treatment from what I should get if I were in Hong Kong. \n\n\"She said: 'But that's all propaganda about the atrocities.' \nI repeated that I would prefer not to have her in the salon, and she left.\" \n\n## The Lone Shopper \n\nLATER I SAW a little smiling Japanese man-servant slip with his shopping basket out of a building in Portman-square today, where other members of the Japanese Diplomatic Staff live. \nNo one turned his head to watch him. The man-servant obtained permission from the single policeman on guard and hurried down Portman-street on a shopping expedition. He was followed at about 20 yards by a constable. \n\nPage 173",
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        "content_text": "# Head 23.-POST OFFICE, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, AND BROADCASTING\n\n## Estimate 1947-48\n## Estimate 1948-49\n\n| 1947-48 | 1948-49 |\n| --- | --- |\n\n## A.-POST OFFICE\n\n### Personal Emoluments\n\n#### Pensionable establishment\n\n* Cadet Officer Class I ($26,400 × $800—$28,800)\n* Cadet Officers Class II ($8,640: $8,640 : $9,120 × $480—$12,000 × $720—$14,160 × $1,440-$21,360 × $720—$22,800)\n* Assistant Postmaster General and Chief Accountant ($22,800)\n\n| $ | $ | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 25,600 | 28,800 | 33,600 (1) |\n| 20,000 | 22,800 |  |\n|  |  | 1 |\n| 1 | 1 |  |\n\n* Controller of Posts ($12,000 × $720—$15,600)\n* Assistant Controller of Posts ($10,080 × $480—$11,520)\n* Superintendents of Mails ($4,800: $4,800: $4,800 $5,100 × $300-$8,200 × $480-$9,600)\n\n| 11,200 | 15,600 |  |\n| 7,360 | 10,357 | 7 |\n| 39,105 | 49,951 (2) |  |\n\n#### General Clerical Service\n\n* Clerks\n* Executive Officers\n* Postal Clerks ($1,440 × $120—$1,800 $1,800: $1,920 × $120-$2,040 × $180-$2,580; $2,760 × $180-$3,300 × $300-$4,200; $4,500 × $300—$6,000)\n* Launch Officers ($3,000: $3,000: $3,600× $300-$4,200)\n\n| 1 | 2 | 16 |\n| 175 | 175 | LO |\n| 5 | 5 | 10 |\n| 12,400 | 18,720 | 49,411 (3) |\n| $1,680: | 231,542 | 9,687 |\n| 512,073 (4) (5) | 19,525 | 14,283 |\n| 1 | 14 | 85 |\n| 85 |  |  |\n\n#### Non-pensionable establishment\n\n* Head Postman ($1,440 × $120-$1,680)\n* Postmen Class I ($1,200 × $48—$1,344)\n* Postmen Class II ($936 × $24—$1,008 × $36—$1,152)\n* Postmen Class III ($768 × $24—$912)\n\n| 515 | 1,530 (6) |\n| 5,726 | 15,692 |\n| 27,073 | 89,441 |\n| 203 | 203 |\n| 47,026 |  |\n| 28 | 811,400 |\n| 3 | 7 |\n\n* Motor Drivers ($1,152 × $48—$1,536)\n* Carpenter ($1,152 × $48-$1,536)\n* Painter ($972 × $36—$1,296)\n* Lift Operators ($768 × $24-$960)\n* Mail Coolies ($528 × $24-$720)\n\n| 2,160 |  |\n| 1 | 360 |\n| 1 | 383 |\n| 4 | 1,079 |\n| 28 | 3,432 |\n\n* Temporary staff\n* Acting pay\n* Expatriation pay\n* Overtime allowance\n\n| 3,600 |  |\n| 4,840 | 8,852 (7) |\n| 13,000 | 1,536 |\n| 1,257 | 3,643 |\n| 14,506 (8) | 3,200 (12) |\n|  | 26,160 |\n|  | 70,000 (10) |\n|  | 4,620 (9) |\n\n* Items not repeated\n\n| 390 |  |\n\n### Total Personal Emoluments\n\n| 466,478 | 1,170,804 |\n\n## Sub-heads\n\n1. **Personal emoluments**\n   | 466,478 | 1,170,804 |\n\n### Other Charges\n\n2. **Air-mail payments**\n   | 1,650,000 | 1,250,000 (12) |\n3. **Fuel, light, and power**\n   | 30,000 | 35,000 (10) |\n4. **Gratuities to licensed stamp vendors**\n   | 2,700 | 2,700 |\n5. **Incidental expenses**\n   | 5,000 | 5,000 |\n6. **Publications**\n   |  | 600 (11) |\n7. **Rent of offices**\n   | 1,524 | 100,000 (14) |\n8. **Stamps**\n   | 20,000 |  |\n9. **Stores and equipment**\n   | 12,000 | 29,400 (15) (16) (17) |\n10. **Transit charges for carriage of mail**\n    | 80,000 | 250,000 (10) |\n11. **Travelling expenses**\n    | 1,000 |  |\n12. **Uniforms**\n    | 34,000 | 42,000 (10) |\n13. **Upkeep of vehicles**\n    | 10,300 | 25,000 (18) (19) (20) |\n    | 3,200 | 2,325 (13) |\n\n### Total Other Charges\n\n| 1,849,724 | 2,316,202 |\n\n### Total Expenditure\n\n| 1,744,025 | 2,914,829 |\n\n(1) Cadet Officer Class II to replace Cadet Officer on leave.\n(2) Title changed from Superintendents.\n(3) Title changed from Postal Clerks.\n(4) 16 new posts.\n(5) Title of six changed from Learners.\n(6) Present holder personally pensionable.\n(7) Four new posts.\n(8) Title changed from Mail Bag Coolies.\n(9) Provides for: Confidential Assistant ($385 per month).\n(10) Previous provision inadequate.\n(11) Now subhead.\n(12) Considered sufficient.\n(13) Rent increased under Landlord and Tenant Ordinance 1947.\n(14) More stamps sold.\n(15) Title changed from Mail bags, parcel boxes, date stamps, and scales.\n(16) More mail bags required.\n(17) Previously provided for in part under Cleansing materials, utensils and washing.\n(18) More vehicles.\n(19) Title changed from Upkeep of motor vehicles.\n(20) Provided for under subhead 9.",
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        "content_text": "# Head 25-POST OFFICE, BROADCASTING, AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS\n## 141 A-POST OFFICE\n\n### Personal Emoluments\n\n#### Pensionable establishment\n\n| Approved Estimate 1948-49 | Estimate 1949-50 | 1948-49 | 1949-50 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 Cadet Officer Class I ($26,400 × $800-$28,800) | 1 | 28,800 | 28,800 |\n| Cadet Officers Class II ($8,640: $9,600 × $480-$12,000: $14,160 × $720-$17,040: $18,000 × $960–$22,800) | 20 | 33,600 | 38,092 (2) |\n| Assistant Postmaster General and Chief Accountant ($22,800) | 1 | 22,800 | 22,800 |\n| Controller of Posts ($12,000 × $720-$15,600) | 1 | 15,600 | 12,240 (3) |\n| Assistant Controller of Posts ($10,080 × $480-$11,520) | 1 | 10,357 | 10,837 (2) |\n| Wireless Inspector ($10,080 × $480-$12,480) | 1 | 13,494 | (4) |\n| Wireless Technician ($7,200: $7,680 × $480-$9,600) | 7 | 8,827 (4) |  |\n| Superintendents of Mails ($4,800: $5,100 × $300-$7,200 × $480-$9,600) | 2 | 49,951 | 52,000 (2) |\n| Executive Officers Class II ($4,800: $5,400 × $360-$7,200: $7,560 × $360-$8,640 × $480-$9,600) | Q | 18,720 | 19,200 |\n| Clerks | 16 | 49,411 | (5) |\n| Postal Clerks ($1,440 × $120-$1,680; $1,800: $1,920 × $120-$2,040 > $180-$2,580; $2,760 × $180-$3,300 × $300-$4,200; $4,500 × $300-$6,000) | 175 | 512,073 | 558,241; (5) (6) |\n| Launch Officers ($3,000: $3,600 × $300-$4,200) | 19 | 19,525 | 23,300 (7) |\n\n#### Non-pensionable establishment\n\n|  | 1948-49 | 1949-50 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Woman Confidential Assistants Class II ($2,880 × $240–$4,800) | 3 | 8,645 (14) |\n| Head Postman ($1,440 × $120-$1,680) | 1 | 1,530 |\n| Postmen Class I ($1,200 × $48—$1,344) | 1 | 1,650 (2) |\n| Postmen Class II ($936 × $24-$1,008 × $36-$1,152) | 14 | 15,692 |\n| Postmen Class III ($768 × $24-$912) | 85 | 89,441 |\n|  | 203 | 90,568 (2) |\n| Motor Drivers ($1,152 × $48—$1,536) | 7 | 8,852 |\n| Carpenter ($1,152 × $48-$1,536) | 1 | 1,536 |\n|  | 173,244 (2) | 9,067 |\n| Painter ($972 × $36-$1,296) | 1 | 1,257 |\n|  | 1,292 (2) |  |\n| Lift Operators ($768 × $24-$960) | 4 | 3,643 |\n|  | 3,702 (2) |  |\n| Mail Coolies ($528 × $24-$720) | 28 | 14,506 |\n|  | 30 | 16,870 (15) |\n| Temporary staff |  | 4,620 |\n|  |  | 16,000 (8) |\n| Acting pay |  | 3,200 |\n|  |  | 4,320 (9) |\n| Expatriation pay |  | 26,160 |\n|  |  | 21,680 (10) |\n| Overtime allowance |  | 70,000 |\n|  |  | 150,000 (9) |\n\n### Total Personal Emoluments\n1,170,804 | 1,276,201",
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        "content_text": "## APPENDIX II (Continued)\n\n| Date | Appointment | Name |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 23.5.47 | Director of Education | T. Rowell |\n| 15.7.47 | Almoner, Medical Department | Miss M. Watson |\n| 21.7.47 | Commissioner of Police |  |\n| 11.8.47 | Director of Medical Services |  |\n|  | Hong Kong University |  |\n| 13.8.47 | Land Bailiff, Public Works Department | D.7. Macintosh, O.B.E. |\n|  | Land Bailiff, Public Works Department | Dr. I. Newton |\n|  | Waterworks Engineer | Professor R. Roberts n. |\n| 15.8.47 | Labour Officer | R. Stott |\n|  | Postman | A.G. Martin |\n|  |  | W. Woodvard |\n|  |  | B.C.K. Hawkins, O.B.E. |\n|  | Office Attendant, Royal Observatory | Yuen Kain |\n|  |  | Bau Chi Ming |\n\nEvidence on:\n- Examinations for the Clerical Service\n- Terms of Service for Women\n- Allowances\n- Nursing Service\n- High Cost of Living Allowances\n- Land Bailiffs, Waterworks Office\n- Remuneration for Artisans\n\nOn behalf of United Friendship Society of Hong Kong Government servants.",
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        "content_text": "## APPENDIX IV\n### 20. - POST OFFICE, TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND BROADCASTING. (Continued)\n\n| Present Salary in $.p.a. | Salary in £.p.a. According to grade in Clerical Scales | Proposed Basic in £.p.a. | Proposed 1%.p.a. | Proposed Total in £.p.2. | Expat.in £.p.a. for Expatriate Officers | Salary in £.p.2. According to grade in Clerical Scales | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1100-1400 |  |  |  |  |  |  | Class V Postal Clerks & Shroffs |\n| 480-1050 |  |  |  |  |  |  | Class VI Postal Clerks & Shroffs |\n| 420 |  |  |  |  |  |  | Learners |\n| 1550-3000 |  | 187.10-262.10 |  | 2100-4200 |  |  | Launch Officers |\n| 475-1440 |  | 90-105 |  | 600-1680 |  |  | Head Postman |\n| 350-1200 |  | 75-84 |  | 450-1344 |  |  | Postmen, 1st Class |\n| 276-936 |  | 58.10-72 |  | 348-1152 |  |  | Postmen, 2nd Class |\n| 204-768 |  | 48-57 |  | 264-912 |  |  | Postmen, 3rd Class |\n| 156-528 |  | 33-45 |  | 204-720 |  |  | Mail Bag Coolies |\n| 720-1152 |  | 72-96 |  | 1536 |  |  | Motor Drivers |\n| 300-1152 |  | 72-96 |  | 360-1536 |  |  | Carpenter |\n\n181",
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        "content_text": "## APPENDIX V (continued)\n### POST OFFICE, TELECOMUNICATIONS AND BROADCASTING\n\n#### A. POST OFFICE\n\n| Position | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Cadet Officer Class I |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Assistant Postmaster General and Accountant | 2200 | 2266 | 2333 | 2400 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Controller of Posts | 1900 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 1000 | 1060 | 1120 | 1180 | 1240 | 1300 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Assistant Controller of Posts | 840 | 880 | 920 | 960 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Superintendent of Mails | 400 | 400 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Launch Officer | 250 | 250 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 400 | 425 | 450 | 475 | 500 | 525 | 550 | 575 | 600 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 540 | 580 | 620 | 660 | 680 | 720 | 760 | 800 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Head Postman | 300 | 325 | 350 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 1st Class Postman | 120 | 130 | 140 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 100 | 104 | 108 | 112 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 2nd Class Postman | 70 | 80 | 82 | 84 | 87 | 90 | 93 | 96 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 3rd Class Postman | 64 | 66 | 68 | 70 | 72 | 74 | 76 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Mailbag Coolies | 44 | 46 | 46 | 48 | 50 | 52 | 54 | 56 | 58 | 60 |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Motor Drivers, Carpenters | 96 | 100 | 104 | 108 | 112 | 116 | 120 | 124 | 128 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Painters | 81 | 87 | 90 | 93 | 96 | 99 | 102 | 105 | 108 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Lift Operator | 54 | 56 | 58 | 60 | 62 | 64 | 66 | 68 | 70 | 72 | 74 | 76 | 78 | 80 |  |\n\n283  \n269",
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        "content_text": "89\n\nBRITISH EMPIRE MEDAL\n\n(CIVIL DIVISION)\n\nCOLONIAL EMPIRE.\n\nHerbert Seymour Selman, Resident Foreman, Waterworks Department, Barbados.\n\nAnthony Paul, Inspector of Police, Class I, and Bandmaster, Ceylon Police.\n\nManasa Tauca, President, Nausori Co-operative Market Association, Fiji.\n\nCornelius Hymanson Thomas, Senior Foreman of Works, Public Utilities Department, Gambia.\n\nBattata Badja, Head of Badjakunda Village, Gambia.\n\nMohamed Yousif Khan, Postal Clerk, Hong Kong.\n\nJeremiah Nyawira, Hond Scout of Veterinary Department, Kenya.\n\nLincoln Zakarich, Hospital Assistant, Grade I, Medical Department, Kenya.\n\nShadrack Munyi wa Kamwithi, Senior Agricultural Instructor, Department of Agriculture, Kenya.\n\nJoseph Micallef, Third Class Officer, Customs Department, Malta.\n\nPeter Paul Chetcuti, Postman, Postal Department, Malta.\n\nMiss Saleemeh Ibrahim Shibley, Graduate Nurse, Public Health Department, Palestine.\n\nYusef Ali Khalid, Mukhtar of Zakariya Village, Hebron Sub-District, Palestine.\n\nMiss Miriam Danielly, Senior Supervisor, Jaffa Telephone Exchange, Palestine.\n\nGhaleb Younis El Husseini, Station Engineer, Jerusalem Water Supply, Palestine.\n\nJames Lawley, First British Warder Sergeant, Prison Service, Palestine.\n\nThomas Sidney Johnson, Technical Staff Grade II, Sierra Leone Railway.\n\nEmanuel Joseph Beale, Assistant Medical Storekeeper, Sierra Leone.\n\nBenjamin Hoi Cheah, Chief Record Clerk and Interpreter, Prisons Department, Singapore.\n\nNyirenda, Hospital Assistant, Grade III, Mwika Dispensary, Tanganyika.\n\n/Robert Charles Denbar.\n\nPage 90\n\nPage 91",
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        "content_text": "Head 24-POLICE FORCE\n\nHead 25-POST OFFICE, BROADCASTING, AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS\n\nApproved Estimate 1949-50\n\nEstimate 1950-51\n\nSpecial Expenditure\n\n31 Arms\n\n32 Automatic branch exchanges\n\n33 Bicycles\n\n34 Radio-telephony equipment\n\n35 Searchlights and portable flashlights\n\n36 Wire recorders\n\nBinoculars\n\n$\n\n109,000\n\n$\n\n$\n\nA-POST OFFICE\n\nPersonal Emoluments\n\n$\n\nApproved Estimate 1949-50\n\n$\n\nEstimate 1950-51\n\n$\n\n189,000 (35) 490,000 (43)\n\n1949-50 1950-51\n\nPensionable establishment\n\n7,700 (43)\n\n200,000\n\n60,000 (44)\n\n2\n\n1\n\n12,000 (43)\n\nCadet Officer Class II ($8,640: $8,640: $9,600×$480-$12,000: $14,160×$720\n\n5,000\n\n2,800 (44)\n\n6,000\n\nBullet-proof shields\n\n1\n\n1\n\n6,000\n\nBullet-proof waistcoats\n\n-$17,040: $18,000×$960—$22,800) Assistant Postmaster General and Chief\n\nAccountant ($22,800)\n\n38,092\n\n22,800\n\n22,800 (1)\n\n22,800\n\n5,000\n\nCinecamera and equipment\n\n1\n\n1\n\nController of Posts ($12,000 × $720\n\n7,000\n\nGenerating plant and equipment, New Territories\n\n$15,600)\n\n12,240\n\n12,941 (2)\n\n50,000\n\nMotor transport\n\n1\n\nI\n\nAssistant Controller of Posts ($10,080 x\n\n187,870\n\nMusical instruments\n\n24,000\n\n(45)\n\n$480-$11,520)\n\n10,837\n\n10,080 (3)\n\nSteel lockers\n\n1\n\n2\n\nWireless Inspectors ($10,080 x $480\n\n83,400\n\nTear-smoke equipment\n\n$12,480)\n\n13,494\n\n22,085 (4)\n\n163,000\n\n1\n\n1\n\nTelephone lines, New Territories\n\nWireless Technician ($7,200: $7,200:\n\n50,000\n\nVerey-light pistols\n\n$7,680×$480-$9,600)\n\n8,827\n\n3,000\n\n7\n\n7\n\nSuperintendents of Mails ($4,800: $4,800:\n\nTotal Special Expenditure\n\n(8) 14 new posts.\n\n(9) 34 new posts.\n\nTotal Expenditure\n\n(1) One supernumerary post pending retirement of officer.\n\n(2) One officer seconded for special duties. (3) One new post.\n\n(4) One officer seconded for duty as Aide-de-Camp and provided for under His Excellency the Governor.\n\n(5) Two Chief Inspectors in place of two Inspectors. (6) 52 new posts. 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        "content_text": "58\n\nHead 24-POLICE FORCE\n\n249\n\nHead 25-POST OFFICE, BROADCASTING, AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS\n\n300\n\n59\n\nApproved Estimate 1949-50\n\nEstimate 1950-51\n\nSpecial Expenditure\n\nA-POST OFFICE\n\n  \n    $\n    $\n    $\n    $\n  \n  \n    Personal Emoluments\n    \n    Approved Estimate 1949-50\n    Estimate 1950-51\n  \n  \n    $\n    $\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    31 Arms\n    109,000\n    \n    (35)\n  \n  \n    32 Automatic branch exchanges\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    33 Bicycles\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    34 Radio-telephony equipment\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    35 Searchlights and portable flashlights\n    189,000\n    (35)\n    \n  \n  \n    36 Wire recorders\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Binoculars\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1949-50\n    1950-51\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    490,000\n    (43)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Pensionable establishment\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    7,700\n    (43)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    200,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    60,000\n    (44)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    \n    \n    1\n  \n  \n    12,000\n    (43)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    5,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2,800\n    (44)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    6,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Bullet-proof shields\n    6,000!\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Bullet-proof waistcoats\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Cadet Officer Class II ($8,640: $8,640: $9,600×$480--$12,000: $14,160×$720 -$17,040: $18,000×$960-$22,800)\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Assistant Postmaster General and Chief Accountant ($22,800)\n    38,092\n    22,800\n    \n  \n  \n    Cinecamera and equipment\n    5,000\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Controller of Posts ($12,000 x $720 $15,600)\n    7,000\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Generating plant and equipment, New Territories\n    12,240\n    22,800 (1)\n    \n  \n  \n    22,800\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    12,941 (2)\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    50,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Motor transport\n    187,870\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Assistant Controller of Posts ($10,080 x $480-$11,520)\n    10,837\n    24,000 (45)\n    \n  \n  \n    10,080 (3)\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Steel lockers\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Wireless Inspectors ($10,080 x $480 $12,480)\n    13,494\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    22,085 (4)\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Telephone lines, New Territories\n    163,000\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Verey-light pistols\n    50,000\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Wireless Technician ($7,200: $7,200: $7,680×$480-$9,600)\n    8,827\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    3,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Superintendents of Mails ($4,800: $4,800: $4,800 $5,100×$300-$7,200×$480— $9,600)\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    52,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total Special Expenditure\n    899,270\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total Expenditure\n    12,633,722\n    761,500\n    15,553,762\n  \n\n(8) 14 new posts.\n\n(9) 34 new posts.\n\n(1) One supernumerary post pending retirement of officer.\n\n(2) One officer seconded for special duties.\n\n(3) One new post.\n\n(4) One officer seconded for duty as Aide-de-Camp and provided for under His Excellency the Governor.\n\n(5) Two Chief Inspectors in place of two Inspectors.\n\n(6) 52 new posts. 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        "content_text": "123\n\n60\n\nPersonal Emoluments\n\n1950-51 1951-52\n\nPensionable establishment\n\nHead 24-POST OFFICE\n\nApproved\n\nEstimate 1950-51\n\nEstimate 1951-52\n\n$\n\n$\n\nHead 24-POST OFFICE\n\n61\n\n  \n    Sub-heads\n    \n    Approved Estimate 1950-51\n    $\n    Estimate 1951-52\n    $\n  \n  \n    1\n    Postmaster General ($24,000)\n    \n    24,000\n    (1)\n    24,000\n  \n  \n    1\n    Personal emoluments\n    \n    1,322,019\n    \n    1,411,378\n  \n  \n    \n    Other Charges\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    Conveyance of mails\n    \n    2,500,000\n    (13)\n    5,000,000\n  \n  \n    3\n    Fuel, light, and power\n    \n    36,000\n    \n    36,000\n  \n  \n    4\n    Gratuities to licensed stamp vendors\n    \n    5,400\n    (14)\n    3,600\n  \n  \n    5\n    Incidental expenses\n    \n    6,000\n    \n    6,000\n  \n  \n    6\n    Publications\n    \n    600\n    (15)\n    1,350\n  \n  \n    7\n    Rent of offices\n    \n    2,325\n    \n    2,325\n  \n  \n    8\n    Stamps\n    \n    150,000\n    (13)\n    100,000\n  \n  \n    9\n    Stores and equipment\n    \n    80,000\n    (16)\n    3,000\n  \n  \n    10\n    Travelling expenses\n    \n    2,500\n    (17)\n    44,000\n  \n  \n    11\n    Uniforms\n    \n    \n    \n    25,000\n  \n  \n    12\n    Upkeep of vehicles\n    \n    42,000\n    \n    25,000\n  \n  \n    \n    Total Other Charges\n    \n    2,849,825\n    \n    5,371,275\n  \n  \n    \n    Special Expenditure\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    13\n    Motor transport\n    \n    23,800\n    (18)\n    48,500\n  \n  \n    14\n    Post Office boxes\n    (7)\n    7,800\n    (8)\n    5,400\n  \n  \n    \n    Total Special Expenditure\n    \n    42,000\n    \n    23,800\n  \n  \n    \n    Total Expenditure\n    \n    4,195,644\n    \n    6,831,153\n  \n\n(1)\n\n592,403\n\n24,350\n\n(3) Title changed from Assistant Postmaster General and Chief Accountant (4) Salary revised\n\n(5) Stipulated increments\n\n(6) Previously provided for under Telecommunications\n\n(7) Posts also shown and provided for under Commerce and Industry Department\n\n(8) Previously provided for under Police Force (9) One Woman Confidential Assistant Class I in place of one Woman Confidential Assistant Class II\n\n(10) Personnel changed\n\n(11) One post provided for under temporary staff (12) Provides for:\n\nOne Wireless Engineer ($1,540 per month); One Woman Confidential Assistant ($400 per month) for six months;\n\n25 Postal Clerks ($120 per month); One Motor Driver ($80 per month); Eight Mail Coolies ($44 per month)\n\n(13) Increased costs and heavier mails (14) Fewer gratuities required\n\n(15) More publications\n\n(16) More travelling\n\n(17) Previously underestimated (18) Replacements of motor vehicles (19) New item\n\nNon-pensionable establishment\n\n  \n    \n    Cadet Officer Class II ($8,640: $8,640: $9,600×$480-$12,000: $14,160×$720 -$17,040×$960-$18,000;\n    $18,960 x $960-$22,800)\n    1\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Assistant Postmaster General ($19,200)\n    \n    22,800\n    22,800\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Controller of Posts ($12,000 × $720 $15,600)\n    \n    12,941\n    13,661\n    (5)\n  \n  \n    \n    Assistant Controller of Posts ($10,080 X $480-$11,520)\n    \n    10,080\n    11,025\n    (5)\n  \n  \n    \n    Wireless Inspectors ($10,080 × $480 $12,480)\n    \n    22,085\n    23,927\n    (5)\n  \n  \n    \n    Lines Sub-Engineer ($10,080: $10,080; $10,560x$480-$12,480)\n    \n    6,677\n    (6)\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Wireless Technicians ($7,200: $7,200: $7,680x$480-$9,600)\n    \n    9,298\n    9,600\n    (5)\n  \n  \n    \n    Assistant Wireless Technician ($2,400; $2,400 $2,580×$180-$3,300: $3,600 >$300-$6,900)\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Superintendents of Mails ($4,800: $4,800: $4,800 $5,100×$300-$7,200×$480— $9,600)\n    \n    53,620\n    5,075\n    (6)\n  \n  \n    \n    64,421\n    (5)\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Executive Officers Class II ($4,800: $4,800: $5,400×$360-$7,200: $7,560×$360---- $8,640 $480-$9,600)\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Senior Woman Confidential ($7,200x$300-$8,400)\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Woman Confidential Assistant Class ($5,040x$360-$6,480×$240-$6,720)...! Postal Clerks ($1,440 × $120 - $1,680: $1,800 $1,800: $1,920×$120-$2,040 x$180 $2,580; $2,760×$180-$3,300 X$300-$4,200; $4,500x$300-$6,000) Launch Officers ($3,000: $3,000: $3,600× $300-$4,200)\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Wireless Telegraphist ($2,040: $2,040: $2,220×$180-$3,300: $3,600×$300- $5,100 $5,400x$300-$6,000 x $360—— $6.720)\n    \n    591,053\n    (10)\n    22,425\n  \n  \n    \n    6,720\n    (6)\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Women Confidential Assistants Class II ($2,880 × $240-$4,800)\n    \n    9,600\n    80\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    M8888\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Head Postman ($1,440×$120-$1,680)\n    \n    1,680\n    20\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    20\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Postmen Class I ($1,200×$48—$1,344)\n    \n    28,631\n    (9)\n    1,680\n  \n  \n    \n    26,113\n    (10)\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    80\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Postmen Class II ($936×$24--$1,008×$36 -$1,152)\n    \n    85,924\n    \n    86,713\n  \n  \n    \n    (5)\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    202\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    202\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Postmen Class III ($768×$24-$912)\n    \n    173.981\n    \n    176,691\n  \n  \n    \n    (5)\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    7\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    7\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Motor Drivers ($1,152×$48-$1,536)\n    \n    9,311\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Carpenter ($1,152×$48-$1,536)\n    \n    9,336\n    (5)\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1,536\n    \n    \n    \n    1,536\n  \n  \n    \n    1\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    60\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    60\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Painter ($972×$36-$1,296)\n    \n    \n    \n    1,296\n  \n  \n    \n    Mail Coolies ($528x$24-$720)\n    \n    32,987\n    \n    34,107\n  \n  \n    \n    (5)\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Coolie ($528X$24-$720)\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    640\n    (6)\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    23,656\n    \n    \n    (12)\n    62,064\n  \n  \n    \n    Temporary staff\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Acting pay\n    \n    3,600\n    \n    7,000\n  \n  \n    \n    (10)\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Expatriation pay\n    \n    29,440\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Overtime allowance\n    \n    150,000\n    \n    150,000\n  \n  \n    \n    Total Personal Emoluments\n    \n    1,322,019\n    \n    1,411,378\n  \n  \n    \n    43,218\n    (10)\n    \n    \n    \n  \n\n124",
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        "content_text": "# TELECOMMUNICATIONS\n\n## Personal Emoluments\n\n### Approved Estimate 1950-51: $594,579\n\n### Estimate 1951-52\n\n  \n    Sub-heads\n    Approved Estimate 1950-51\n    Estimate 1951-52\n  \n  \n    1 Personal emoluments\n    $\n    $\n  \n  \n    Pensionable establishment\n  \n  \n    Senior Wireless Engineer ($20,160×$960—$22,080×$720 $22,800)\n    22,800\n    (1)\n  \n  \n    Wireless Engineers ($10,560: $10,560: $11,040 x $480 $12,000 x $720 $18,480)\n    70,340\n    (1)\n  \n  \n    Wireless Sub-Engineer ($10,080: $10,080: $10,560×$480—$12,480)\n    12,480\n    (1)\n  \n  \n    Lines Sub-Engineer ($10,080: $10,080: $10,560×$480—$12,480)\n    12,000\n    (2)\n  \n  \n    Wireless Technicians ($7,200: $7,200: $7,680x$480-$9,600)\n    32,219\n    (1)\n  \n  \n    Assistant Wireless Technicians ($2,400: $2,400 $2,580×$180 $3,300; $3,600 *$300-$6,900)\n    109,406\n    13\n  \n  \n    Apprentice Wireless Technicians ($1,800: $1,800x$120-$2,040×$180-$2,220)\n    20,775\n    (2)\n  \n  \n    Wireless Telegraphists ($2,040: $2,040: $2,220x$180-$3,300; $3,600×$300-$5,100; $5,400x $300-$6,000×$360- $6,720)\n    156,384\n    (1)\n  \n  \n    Foremen Class I ($2,880x$180-$3,600) Foremen Class II ($1,800x$120-$2,640)\n    4,910\n    1\n  \n  \n    Non-pensionable establishment\n  \n  \n    Assistant Wireless Engineer ($6,600: $6,600 $6,900×$300-$7,200×$480- $10,080)\n    8,200\n    \n  \n  \n    Mechanicians Class I ($1,344×$48-$1,536) Mechanicians Class II ($972×$36-$1,296) Mechanicians Class III ($768×$24-$960) Apprentice Mechanicians ($612 × $24 $720)\n    11,649\n    5,349\n  \n  \n    Radio Postman Class I ($1,200 × $48 $1,344)\n    1,344\n    (1)\n  \n  \n    Radio Postman Class II ($936 × $24 $1,008×$36-$1,152)\n    1,004\n    \n  \n  \n    Radio Postmen Class III ($768×$24-$912)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Motor Driver ($1,152×$48-$1,536)\n    1,200\n    \n  \n  \n    Carpenter Class I ($1,152x$48-$1,536)\n    1,248\n    \n  \n  \n    Carpenters Class II ($768x$24-$960)\n    1,584\n    \n  \n  \n    Riggers Class I ($1,152×$48-$1,536)\n    2,468\n    \n  \n  \n    Rigger Class II ($768×$24-$960)\n    792\n    \n  \n  \n    Wireman ($768×$24-$960)\n    948\n    \n  \n  \n    Guards ($768×$24-$960)\n    1,658\n    \n  \n  \n    Watchmen ($768×$24-$960)\n    1,632\n    \n  \n  \n    Cooks ($528x×$24-$720)\n    1,909\n    \n  \n  \n    Messenger ($528×$24-$720)\n    792\n    \n  \n  \n    Coolies ($528×$24-$720)\n    17,654\n    (4)\n  \n  \n    Expatriation pay\n    34,000\n    200\n  \n  \n    Field allowance\n    \n    (5)\n  \n  \n    Overtime allowance\n    18,000\n    (5)\n  \n  \n    Total Personal Emoluments\n    594,579\n    \n  \n\n## Other Charges\n\n  \n    Sub-heads\n    Approved Estimate 1950-51\n    Estimate 1951-52\n  \n  \n    2 Fuel, light, and power\n    70,000\n    5,500\n  \n  \n    3 Incidental expenses\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    4 Maintenance of Government lines\n    120,000\n    \n  \n  \n    5 Publications\n    750\n    \n  \n  \n    6 Stores and equipment\n    150,650\n    1\n  \n  \n    7 Study courses\n    \n    (5)\n  \n  \n    8 Travelling expenses\n    4,000\n    \n  \n  \n    9 Uniforms\n    2,000\n    \n  \n  \n    10 Upkeep of vehicles\n    7,500\n    \n  \n  \n    Total Other Charges\n    361,400\n    \n  \n  \n    Total Expenditure\n    955,979\n    \n  \n\n(1) Posts abolished\n\n(2) One post provided for under Post Office\n\n(3) 29 posts abolished\n\n(4) 30 posts abolished\n\n(5) Not required",
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