10.
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In this connection we would call to mind that
the Civil Servant is largely if not entirely
precluded from participating in the financial
benefits derived by the remainder of the community
in times of prosperity, because he is not permitted
to be interested in trade or to acquire land, or
to speculate in shares or even to hold any shares
except those of which the Governor may expressly
approve. Moreover, in times of prosperity the
Civil Servant is told that he must not envy the
financial status of the members of the commercial
community, because the civil servant's income
though small is immune from all risks.
22. The second suggestion is that the state of
the Colony's finances will not admit of the payment
of the prescribed salaries.
Your Petitioners respectfully submit that
though the finances of the Colony appear superficiallly
to be in a parlous state the remedy is ready to
the hand of the Government.
The inhabitants of the Colony pay no Income Tax.
The expenses of administration are largely
expenses which in England would be the cost of
municipal administration and would be paid out of
the assessed rates.
The maximum assessed rate in this Colony is
s.d.
17 per cent
England.
equivalent to a rate of 3/4 in
i
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