maximum
portion of his staff as against #10760, the corresponding. limit recommended by the Re_ trenchment Committee, and as against #9075, the sum to which it is possible, as the staff is at present constituted, to reduce the expenditure on the personal
question by utilising this opportunity for giving effect to the recommend ations of that Committee.
emoluments in
X864
5.
· a month less #116+#72 salaries of
two clerks =
$80 a month for 2 new clerks = "/
#676.
80 #756 a month
or $9092 a year.
Report/
5.
287
In paragraph 9 of my des-
" patch N: 201 of the 4th September last I stated that I concurred in the opinion of the Retrenchment Committee that many of the members of the staff of the Post Office are too highly paid and that I agreed with the scale of salaries suggested in paragraph
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of the Report of the Retrenchment, Committee. I am however bound to inform Your Lordship that at the time of writing that despatch I had not been made fully
aware
of
IN SIROLYTI.