314.
at par should not cease, the highest proportion, namely, half of salary,
which is now
permitted to be
remithet for family purposes being
at the present rate of exchange only about 17 per cent of the whole.
27.
I do note epress any
decided opinion
on this point,
on
because I presume that it was -
definitely settled with reference to the Straits Settlement, where, a [leypon
understand, there was permitted,
Bone
years ago,
an
inonce
e a se
of
-salaries at the rate of 25 per cent.
I
230
I surely refer to it, so that it shatl
Isurely
not escape
28.
salary,
attention,
The
ca se
of the Governon
which was
referred to in.
Finance Committee without previous
euggestion
my part, involves separate considerations. The
Unofficial Member of Conveil
geve
to be
it, Jam
informed,
understood av their unanimo
nimons
opinion that his not emolument should certainly not be less than at any previons tiones. After considering the subject I have on the whole
deemed