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gestion of the senior member who
was one
of the Retrenchment Com mittee unanimously voted for -exchange compensation allowance from the 1st January
an
1894 and without hesitation_ made provision in the Estimates for 1895 for such an allowance in future.
With reference to par graph 5 of your despatch I may
observe that it was never
my
intention to charge an annually recurring compensation al-
lowance
lowance to surplus balances. Provision has in the Estimates
been made for 1895. It was how
intention to charge.
ever
my
the back payment for 1894 against
such balances as an extraordina
extraordinary and exceptional measure and seeing that a portion of the balances may be regarded
As
Surplus Revenue of 1893 I do not think any serious
objection
could be raised to such an
Course.
The proposed expenditure
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