The Coroner—I see this is a five years' agreement, according to which he was to receive Tls. 150 for the first year, Tls. 175 for the second, Tls, 225 for the fourth and Tls. 250 for the fifth. I suppose that is the ordinary salary for a young man?
Inspector Gibson—For a man representing a company it is small.
The Coroner further observed that the agreement provided for six months' leave after five years' service, on full pay, at the rate of Ts. 125 per month. Mr. Grain also quoted a letter from Messrs. Haworth to the deceased, in which they wrote: ''We are perfectly aware of the good service you have rendered since your arrival in Shanghai, but cannot see our way to alter the terms of the agreement." "He seems," said the Coroner, "to have placed before, them the cost of living in Shanghai and his own inadequate remuneration. He complains that people he associates with all have higher salaries;- but these letters are all writ-gen in 1921, I see that in June, 1922, his salary was raised to Tls. 325, and they cabled out so that he chauid lose no time in receiving it."
In answer to a question, Mrs. McCann said she was quite positive deceased was noe in debt.
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