53738/47
Letter
despatched
جميلة
597
Downing strect, .w.1.
Your reference: 9.52892/09
Dear Charles,
5th July, 1947.
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Would you please refer to Serpell's letter of the 6th January, 1947, agreeing to increased rent allowances for long Tong Government officers. The Governor, in his despatch of Cth August, 1946, stated that, though the increased rates were adequate for the moment, it would be necessary to increase them if, for any reason, it proved impossible to keep rentals down to their 1941 levels. In a proving the increases, we expressed the hope that it would not be necessary to increase the allowances any farther in advance of a general revision of salaries, but, of course, it must be recognised that this would be bound to be dependent on the Government's being able to hold rents at their 1941 level.
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o have now received a telegram from the Governor a copy of which I enclose, in which he reports that he has been obliged to allow landlords to increase rents by 30er cent us from the 1st July, 1947. accordingly asks for our agreement to a corresponding increase in the scale of rent allowances set out in the enclosures to his despatch of the 6th August, 1946, pending the report of the Salaries Commission. resumably under General orders 108, those officers who are occupying Government quarters are not affected by the increase of rents and continue to pay rent for quarters at the rates indicated in that order. It is, therefore, only equitable that those officers who comic under Gencral rder No. 1:09 should not be penalized by the rent increases.
B.T. C ARLES, S.,
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