hav recently been made to
Me
by
む
officer of this
Government, (the "Steward
: the Government Civil Hospital),
who has been granted three
months vreation leave to ~ enable him to proceed to America for the benefit of his health, to be allowed to draw his salary while in that country in sterling at 4/2 to the dollar.
Mr. Rogers had
onade no a arrangements by
which
no
432
which he could so draw his
- salary through the Crown Agents, and apparently what
he desired to be done was either that his salary should
him here in
or drawn
for
doilare at the enhanced rate
due to a nominal conversion
from sterling at 4/2 into
local currency at market. -
し
rates, or that
that an
arrangement
an arr
should be made for him - with the Hongkong and
Changhai Bank, which has
iz