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2598
Of.
530
cers in the various departments that are most affected by
the reduction in income resulting from the fall of the
dollar though senior married officers with families and
no private means also suffer and of course all officers
drawing sterling or exchange compensation salaries are
affected to the extent of the proportion of their income
expended locally.
2.
In June 1901 when the sterling salary scheme
now generally in force was approved by Mr. Chamberlain the
value of the dollar was 1/84. In June 1906 salaries were
paid at a rate of 2/14 the dollar. The dollar value of the
sterling and exchange compensation salaries has thus fallen in
4 years to83/102 or to just over 4/5th. of its former
value.
3.
It is true that in some instances salaries
have been raised beyond the amounts approved in Mr. Cham-
berlain's despatch No.171 of the 13th.
June,
1902, but this
has been on account of increased work or responsibility and
not on account of decline in the local value of the sterl-
ing salary or exchange compensation. It is also true that
the value of so much of the salary as is sent home by
officers on account of insurance policies, maintenance of
relatives or education of children in England, or purchase
of