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Civilians who can afford to pay for good lodging and a generous mode of living.
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Nevertheless, although both those requisites are more essential here for health than in other colonies, their cost would unfortunately exhaust the salaries of nine out of ten of the Civil Officers leaving nothing to retire on except the distant prospect of the pensions offered by clause 8 of the Pension Minute.
19. I see therefore strong reasons for placing Civil Servants here on the same footing as those under Her Majesty's Foreign Office, and though it has hitherto been the custom to treat Her Majesty's Servants under the Colonial Office as Members of an inferior service, I hope juster ideas may be gradually allowed to prevail on that point, and that Your Lordship may see your way to accomplishing the alteration in the Pension Minute which it would appear from the last paragraph of Your Lordship's despatch of the 4th October last had been already suggested to Her Majesty's Treasury.
10. I am aware that such a Concession eventually will involve "an increased expenditure of Colonial funds, but I trust that such expense will be regarded as a primary charge on the Revenue, and that contributions by the Colony to purposes unconnected with its own local wants and reasonable requirements will be postponed till more immediate demands...