· education etc. etc.) and in relation to the cost of commodities which directly, or indirectly, rest upon a gold basis, whether bought by the purchaser locally, or imported by him from England (such as stores, clothes, wine etc. etc.) has not materially increased since the addition to the salaries was granted to the service in 1891, although it is expressed in silver.
8. In view of the circumstances detailed in the preceding two paragraphs it is not, perhaps, surprising that so large a proportion of the officers concerned should have declined to accept the offer conditionally made to them, because they consider it inadequate, especially when the reduction which it involves in the rate of payment of leave salaries is taken into account, a reduction that would press the more hardly now that the lines of mail steamers.
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