295
Old rate of pay
@3/4
6.
The following table shows the value in sterling of the old and present rates of pay of your Petitioners.
Present rate of pay @3/4 in sterling 6.2/2 Present rate of pay as regulated in 1891 £ piclaves hupectus 1200: 200 1368 220 148-4)- do 960 160 1092 102 118.67 3rd do 840 140 дво 160 104- Sergeant 624 104 720 120 beting Sergeant 540 до boo 100 65. Coretable 480 Y. f 9.The pay of the Members of the Police Force in the United Kingdom greatly exceeds that of your Petitioners if the pay of the latter is calculated in sterling.
Many of your Petitioners have relatives in Great Britain who are partly dependent upon them for support and at the present rate of Exchange it is utterly impossible for your Petitioners to remit to their relatives or to save any appreciable amount out of their pay.
The price of all European and American manufactured goods, tinned foods and liquors has increased in proportion to such fall in exchange; many articles of necessity to your Petitioners such as clothing, boots, tinned meats, corned beef, butter, coffee, cocoa, shoeblacking, tobacco, soap are now, as appears by the price lists of local tradesmen hereunto annexed, unattainable except at prices nearly one third higher than in the year 1891. Dealers in native produce have also increased their prices.
10.
greater
Your Petitioners are satisfied with the amounts of half pay and pension payable to them under their said ... Agreements but desire that their pay should be so increased that if calculated in sterling it would amount to the same sum as it amounted to when readjusted in the year 1891, and that such increased pay should date back to the 1st day of January 1892 since which time the rate of Exchange has been very considerably less than it was at ...