C

the Estimates is only given $3240* & approve the latter rate which is nearly 23 per cent above. the salary at date of creation of the office in 1883 - [& happen to be 35% above the maximum Emoluments of the former office held by M. M. Callum, when he was transferred

sufficient rise,

and seems a

I think all the other personal allowances which are proposed to be retained may

an

be approved,

they were all over for length

of service, so far

The Sup. I

as the papers show.

an

the Prison pers. all.

in 1889 a pers.

his Quarters were

Luna

given $20 because

788720 inadequate for

his family, and as

he

promised

Quarters, the for. considered he had

an

"a moral claim to such sufficient for his family

Equivalent in money. (in 4571/04) he

to their

On his

be was

sent

the paper of particulars (in 1800/82-3) which specified "Quarters in the be a questio fast"

so that it may whether he had a positive claim to very extensive quarters. However that

may

are

be I do not think that there

sufficient grounds for his retaining

$720 to an now raised as Proposed

his gross emoluments including quarter

X. In pers especially the allowance

all. $1360

granted in the notren 1890 Eating in this Colony merged in

See 5953/0

par. 2207 25850/88.

35 percent above the 1875 rate. $408 ? Decline therefor to accede to his prayer tot (in Enc. 10)

a

further point connected

There is with this case

& with all others

who have free quarters: viz.

the way in which the value of such

1875 + 189 respecting

quarters in 1875

have been estimated

a

pp. 298 30 of desp?

It will be seen that the general increases were sanctioned,

on a

(5(6) Statement (in 1598/09-90) that house rent for Europeans

y Enc. I in 159850


7

had

increased from 100 to 150 percent, and for Chinese 100 percent. Quarters, given Yet the value in Enc. 11 to the present desp are estimated to have risen very much less, viz. from 33 per cent downward to an actual decrease of

20 per cent!! The result is that W. Deane (whose desp) & is given on fr. 30 of all the officers concerned th

more than $35 (or 20) given per cent over the 1875 rates of salary proper, although they also have quarters, and are so

Case

are

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