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In granting these enhanced rates of pay, Lord Knutsford, in his despatch of the 4th June 1891, pointed out that, as they were conceded mainly because of the increased cost of living in the Colony, they must not carry with them any increase in half pay or pensions drawn out of the colony. He proposed, therefore, in the case of holders of offices to which an increase of 14% and over was then sanctioned, to keep their leave pay and pensions down to about their former level by reducing the rate of exchange at which they were to be calculated and paid to 4/7 and 3/8 respectively instead of ...
I put it in other words: he directed that, whenever in future the holder of any office in respect of which an increase of pay had been given was drawing leave pay...