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also largely answerable for the similar motions for reduction in Committee on 1893 Supply - and (3) that the allegation that the Secretary of State directed the payment of the increases of salaries in 1891 on ground mentioned, is a mis-statement.
Paragraph 5 contends that the Civil Servants have no vested interest in the increases, and that the unofficial members have done right in moving the reduction thereof. The Civil servants have, in my opinion, the same right, no less, to expect no more, but no less, to continuance of the payment of their present rates of salary while the Colony is able to pay them and the circumstances under which they were fixed have not materially altered, as Civil Servants elsewhere have to expect.
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