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proposed; and I should be grateful for your authority t‹-
to invite them to do so
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15. Of the remainder for whom an increase is
proposed, Swaziland, the Seychelles, St. Helena and
two out of the three Western Pacific territories
are grant aided; British Honduras only emerged from
grant-in-aid in 1967 and its finances are still in a
precarious state, so clearly none of these can afford
to pay an increase. The political and economic
circumstances in Fiji, Gibraltar and the Falkland
Islands are such that we consider that the territories
should not be asked to pay an increase. All these
territories therefore fall squarely within the terms
of paragraph 2(i) of your letter 2-FD 488/1043/01B
of 27 February; and it would be for H.M. Government
to pay the difference if you were to agree that the
changes proposed in these Governors' salaries were
merited.
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If you were to wish us to justify the mathematics
to you even more fully, my colleagues and I would be
happy to attend upon you. But if you are satisfied
with them, I hope that you will feel able give your
early approval.
17. As to the effective date, I suggest that it should
be 13 December 1967, the date of the letter in which
I first put to you proposals for a fundamental review
of Governors' emoluments.
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