of Civil Officers in the Colony in view of the diminished value of the dollar, I have the honour
to enclose for Your Lordship's information a copy of report made
by
a
the
Enclosures 13th Decembe 1889.
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Copies)
Committee consisting, the Chairman excepted, of- the unofficial members of the Legislative Council, to which Committee I referred the consideration of the question.
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The Chairman was
in the first instance the late Colonial obcretary, Mr Stewart, and at his death,
a draft report, unsigned,
was
found in his handwriting, from which it
would
that the
appear -Committee had originally decided unanimously that the increased cost of living
and the diminished value
of the dollar in remittance to England, justified
an
increase