Governor. No. 15
Date. 22 Jan 1894
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DESPATCHIL, Re: 23 FE: 94) Exchange Compensation
Reports feeling of officers respy. the conditional offer made to them: 7/8ths are averse to accepting it requests instructions apologises for delay.
(Minutes.)
M. Fanfield
Now that the Dollar has fallen so much lower, I should guess that a larger proportion of the officers might be willing to accept the offer, be disposed to let the offer made to them again, definitely accepted or rejected by individual officer by a fixed date, intimating at same time that I state regrets that he can hold out no hope of being able to sanction more favorable terms in the present financial state of the Colony; and telling