rate, an
opinion which is for tified by the fact that there is no difficulty whatever in obtaining recruits. Gobserve that even a 3rd class constable mensem where
gets $12.50 per
as a de
Sepoy of the Honghong Reg! gets day $7.0.0 + Ration Money $4.50 Total $11.50. I may re- mark parenthetically that in
India the Police Constable gets less than the soldier-usually about R. 6. per mensem.
The Ration Money, expended under my super- vision, is we find more than ample, while as regards the pay
I can only tell you that
is
which
our remittance rolls show that the men are enabled to save
at least $60 per say R. 10 per
annum, or
10 per mensem_ such
savings for
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of their~
station
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station in life afford a mag-
nificent provision for their families an assertion you will
appreciate when I tell you in India a sepoy
that
a sepoy can only with frugality and much self denial monthly
remit even R. 3 or Ro4 to his home-
As any increase to the pay of
the Police will lead to a demand
for like treatment to the Military His Excellency will perhaps permit me to criticize the various paragraphs of the. Petition.
Para. 3. The Petitioners would doubtless be surprised to learn that the pay of the British. Soldier is practically the same as it was two centuries ago. Para. 4... The Police Repoy should
consider it an honour rather
than a grievance that he is permitted