(par. 7) that Europeans should be paid in Sterling" (which involved an
immediate rise of 35 percent dollars)
and nou.
-
not adop but 357
Europeans be given miles
a rise of 20 percent over the 1875nates
The gentlemen who got
35% rise are now un 35% rise
To wa
thinking that 20%
Meis
This however
Ibez leave to doubt; it is
mmons inn
disproved by the figures
too much.
for the Clerks, I support the scheun of the (ol. Secretary which & goes less to the 1875 rates.
back more or
Are we then to suppose that the
Cost of living for
Europeans
has not increased at all since
1875
instead of having
at least 10 per cent?
increased
has
If so we may fairly suspect that the cost of living for Europeans
increased, not 20 per cent,
more
Int
nearly 10 per cent; and this
usvery shy in future
should make us
statements as
in accepting vague to increased cost of living.
Rent must have grown for
as
the Clerks
well as for the higher Civil Servants;
well as the highen and these Clerks,
ar
Civil Servants, must live partly imported food & clothing, the cost
m
given in Ashe
f
which has (we
par. 5(b) of Enc. I in
1 in
ane
Fold in
1598/39-90260
increased "generally spanking proportion to the fall in exchange"! We are not told how the Comum.
in 1889
arrived at the conclusim
to the Report that the cost of living had gone. asto price of up 10percent for chisfarticles of food.
ann my. muistion
Straits
14507/89
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Europeans
I 20 percent for Europeans, and Inspect that if the statistics had
been dealt with in this home
with a due regard to the propertie of a man's nicome that he spends on each head of expenditure
hear
some
of which have not grown. anch if at all
if at all - it would be found that there was exaggera- thin in that Estimate
The proposed reductions cannot take effect except gradually a
vacancies occur,
& I do not
ar
therefor know why the Governor wants a telegraphic reply. Badifatilage the unofficial
madrack Member of Leg. Council supported (by
the Report inn 1595/89-90) the signing
the
increases of 20 percent given & Istmed like to Zzears ago, get their proposed reductions.
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