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lowed to participate in the privilege of Exchange Com- pensation
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All the Petitioners are
domiciled either in
or Macao; all, or
are in
Hongkong
all, or nearly all, -receipt of salaries
which have either been settled since the dollar has fallen to its present average value, of the
or which are in excess
amounts recommended by
the Retrenchment Committee;
and their position in no
• way differs
differs from that of their fellow- countrymen employed in bom mercial Firms, who, I
am in
formed, have received no com pensation for the fall of ex-
change.
3.
Jam
I regret that I am
therefore unable to support the prayer of the Petition.
I have the honour to be,
Your
Sir,
Most Obedient Humble Servant,
Willein Robingsf
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