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that as the dollar when these salaries were fixed re-
presented a value of 4s. 3d., it would be only just to
give successive increases to the number of those
dollars as their value falls, and I recommend for
favourable consideration the following scale of increases,
namely:-
(a)
When the Treasury rate falls to 3s. 3d.,
25 per cent.
(b) When it falls to 2s. 8d., an increase of
50 per cent;
and I further recommend that as employes of the same
class in private firms have generally been enjoying the
increases above referred to for some months past, tlie
Secretary of State may be pleased to approve of the
temporary additions now submitted being made retros-
pective and to date from 1st April last.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
(Sd.) G.Digby Barker,
Major General.