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This accords with the observations in Your Lordship's
5 telegram of the 25th of March, 1930.
I also decided
that it was desirable that the Rent allowance for
dollar paid officers should as at present only be
drawn by those with ten years' service and not by
all such officers as recommended in section 180 of
the Commission's Report.
3. I enclose for Your Lordship's information
the Hansard Report of the proceedings in Legislative
Council. My speech, as recorded therein,
sufficiently sets out my views on this question.
4. With reference to Sir Cecil Clementi's
proposal to raise additional revenue for the purpose
of implementing the Report, as set out in the
eleventh paragraph of his despatch of the 22nd of
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January, 1930, I consider it inadvisable at the
present moment to make any increase in the Assessment
Tax as this would almost certainly have the effect
It will,
of raising rents all round, a contingency to be
avoided in the present state of depression.
however, probably be necessary to increase this tax
in connection with the Budget for 1931, in order to
meet the cost of necessary services.
5.
I decided, therefore, as already reported
3 in my confidential telegram of the 21st of June, 1930,
to recommend an increase in the tobacco duties, which
is already in force, and a tax of 15 cents per gallon
on petrol which has been enforced as from the 1st of
July by Ordinance No.4 of 1930, entitled an Ordinance
to