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These words, although employed by Mr Whitehead with a different object from that for which I venture to call them, none the less support my argument.
It would be saying in effect that salaries should rise and fall with the rise and fall in the prosperity of the Colony and with even the rise and fall of share values in the local money market.
The proposal of 1889, from which they now dissociate themselves, was in reality a recommendation of a "bonus out of the realized profits...
11. Even if it could be shown that the Civil servants have been more fortunate than the facts as to house rent and other items in the cost of living...