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receive
such
certain prescribed limits orders on the Crown Agents for
they might require for remittances home, I beg vary respectfully to urge upon Your Lordship an early consideration of the subject as exchange has already fallen to a rate which is ruinous to public Officers,
and their prospects
are even worse - the
present rate of a eight dollar bill being 3/10d with every probability of a permanent fall to 3/9
2.
My attention has been particularly directed to the subject by the report of the Captain Superintendent of Police
in which he
adverts to the great hardship
entailed upon
the men enlisted
at home who, although promised
fixed Sterling amounts payable
in
dollars at 4/2, find themselves
unable to remit their
savings
save at 3/10d which is not only injustice to them but disadvantageous to the service, destroying
that
incentive to
economy
which would
be caused
by ability to count
every shilling which could be saved for future maintenance at home. A failure in carrying out
the
engagement may also be
detrimental to future enlistments, and, therefore, I beg to suggest...