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Correspondence from Butterfield & Swire offices in Hong Kong to John Swire and Sons London office concerning staff. Includes documents concerning; staff movements; interportal visits and inspections; paper on proposed development of the Works Department as an architectural and engineering business; staffing requirements and recruitment; high cost of living allowance; staff accommodation and housing; staff transfers; comments on individual staff performances; return of staff families; advice on clothing requirements and availablity for staff coming to Hong Kong; list of prices (in pounds and dollars) of male and female clothing in Hong Kong in May 1947; staff health; discussion on deficiences of rehabilitation grants for previously interned staff; individual staff accounts of monthly expenditure, including household budgets, in Hong Kong and financial hardship as a result of occupation of Hong Kong and internment; Hong Kong salaries tax (income tax); paper on the higher cost of living allowance with details of pre-war and current spending under the headings rent, food, cigarettes & drinks, transport, household sundries, clothing, clubs, subscriptionssummer holidays, entertaining, postage and newspapers, contingencies; re-opening of Japan to commercial interests; contract agreement terms; plans to explore Formosa (Taiwan) with a view to opening an office there; staff arrangements 1948; Deacon and Company office in Canton (Guangzhou).
File includes subject and name index for letters from Hong Kong and Shanghai.
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