1 do not
payments by or to the Government.“ propose to proceed with this Bill until we hear what effect it will have on the rents of Crown lands that are now paid in sterling,
ADJOURNMENT.
The Council then adjourned until Wednesday afternoon at 8 o'clock.
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
A meeting of the Finance ommittee was held after the Council meeting, the Colonial Secre- tary prosiding.
The CHAIRMAN-There is only only one financial minute to bring b-fore the Committee to-day, and that is ons in which the Governor som of recommend the Council to vote a $1.324 in respect of alditions to the salaries of the nndermentioned officers as from the 1st Jan-1 uary. 1895. aasanctioned hy the Secretary of State on the the recommendation of the Retrench. ment Committee:-The Colonial Veterinary Surgeon. $400; the Steward of the Gotern- ment Civil Hospital, $120; Inspector Germain, Sanitary Department, $120 (for knowledge of Chinese); the Head Bailift, Supreme Court, $204; the second Bailiff, Supreme Court. $280. Hon. members will remember that the Re- trenchment Committee made certain recom- mendations in the direction of retrenchment. They also made recommendations which would not be considered to tend in that direction. They considered, after their exquiries, that there were vortain cfficers who were not drawing sufficient remuneration considering the arduous nature of their duties. The officers in this list were among thons in the Civil Service recommended for an increase of pay.
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Hon. Ho Kal thought there was a mistake in reference to the vote recommended to Inspector Germain, who in consideration of his gond work had been twice recommended by the Sanitary Board for an increase to $240. Why was it only $120 P
CYMAN-The m*·. > dicationed barv ar in ancordance with the recommenda.
13. Betrene. aont Committee. Inspector Germain who has reportal ou most favourably, ought we a larger increase it is a matter which must. forward separately. I do not think we can alter the amount to day, and I suggest, if attes- tion is to be drawn to this amount, that it shoul be brought up at a fatare meeting of the Com. milies.
The vote was recommen led.
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