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increased costs of the new Services pay
structure introduced last April, coupled
with the fact that it has recently been
found possible to bring the Army nits
in the Colony up to strength - a development
which had not been allowed for in the
earlier estimates.
Wilford's
Lt. It will be seen from Mr. Wilfred's
(Annex <)
letter of 25 September, that we are resisting
人
this pressure for the reasons stated therein.
It will also be seen, from paragraph 4
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of the draft letter enclosed with
Mr Wilford's Later (Annex D), that
Outt
proposing to ask the
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Governor
to give revious conservation to the possibility of including in the new agrement a pansion for annual adjustments to cover play and price increases
as
to maintain the real
So
valke
of
contribution ove
the period of the agreement. вна
Hong Kong DEAN.
October, 1870.
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