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No, foray 4 12:
3.
Further petition has been received from
Government servants which I shall forward shortly
with proposals for relief in matter of remittances".
I now forward the second memorial to which
reference was made in the concluding sentence of the
above telegram, signed by 573 Government officers on
sterling salaries.
4. It will be observed that the eleventh
paragraph of the memorial refers to the practice
adopted by certain firms in the Colony and this point
is covered by the telegram quoted above; the further
enquiries have not so far elicited any information of
interest.
5. Enquiries into the cost of living, as
instructed in the third paragraph of Your Lordship's
despatch under acknowledgment, are being pressed
forward and an attempt will be made to arrive at
periodical index figures of European food budgets.
6. As regards the fourth paragraph of the memenal despatch I have come to the conclusion that any
inquisition into the means adopted by individual
officers for the support of dependants in the United
Kingdom would be open to serious objections and that
the only practicable means of dealing with such
hardships is by means of a flat rate of conversion
privilege in respect of such dependants as are in a
country the currency of which is based on gold.
7. I would therefore submit for Your Lordship's
approval the proposal that any officer on sterling
salary having a wife or having a single child in a
gold