3rd May, 1900.
28th August, 1897.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :--
C.O. 882
6
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-
COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH—NOT TÓ
3rd May, 1900.
28th August, 1897.
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Pork :-
Pork...
Pig's Head
Cents.
Cents,
***
Per catty
30
22
Each
18
Feet...
20
16
"
Tongue
24
16
26
Country Cabbage
Each
Cente.
50
Cents.
20
14
China Spring Cabbage
Bengal Cabbage
Por catty
20
Bombay Onions
४
6
99
19
Mutton :-
Mutton
Head
Feet...
Tripe...
...
Liver...
•
Buffalo Meat
Liver...
Heart
Per lb.
26
Each
30
4
"
24
...
19
30
帅
Per catty
16
20
11
20
1
Small Onions
Garlic
Green Chillies
6
7
6
6
13
४
Dried Chillies
Chillies
14
23
...
ewa
...
8
16
Limes, large and small
Fowl (full grown)
Per 100
Each
80
1 dollar.
Smaller Fowl
Chicken
...
"
บ
Fish:-
Belangin
***
Per catty
Koorow
"
Siakab
"
Ginahap
#
Ekan Lidah (Sales)
Bawal Puteh
#
Etam
19
"
Tambah (Pomfret)
"
Bontong (Cottle Fish)
...
"
Boongha Ayer
"
Large Prawns
11
Small Prawns
Crabs
"
Each
Freshwater Crabs ...
Potatoes:-
Bengal Potatoes
Sweet Potatoes
Acheon Yam
25
20
18
16
24
16
25
14
རྨུ ྣ ཝ བྷཱུ ཙུ ླ ཋ སྨཱ ཋ ཋ ླ ཙྭ མ
25
16
16
30
16
à | | | ༄ ྨ ༄* | ༞ ླ ཋ ཨ
Duck (full grown)
Smaller Duck
Goose
***
8
3
"
Per catty
6
5
2
2
3
Vegetables, &c. :—
Green Peas
..
Per catty
60
45
Lettuce
16
8
M
Celery
13
8
"
Capon
***
Pine Apple (Mauritius)...
(Country)
3
6. As a further result of the enhanced cost of the necessaries of life, the prices of all locally manufactured articles, such as clothes, shoes, furniture, cocoanut oil, fire- wood, &c., as well as the cost of education, medical attendance, washing, locomotion, and such like, have correspondingly increased.
7. The wages of domestic servants of all classes have also risen proportionately. 8. House rent has increased 30 per cent. since 1897, and as but very few of Your Memorialists have houses of their own, or can afford to pay high rents, Your Memorial- ists are compelled to live in houses which are not suitable to their position, and are in unhealthy neighbourhoods, in many cases so distant from the Government Offices as to entail a considerable physical strain upon those who cannot afford rikisha hire.
9. The low value of the rupee has materially lessened the importation, and consequently increased the price of Indian products. The same applies to importa- tions from Europe, such as materials for clothing, articles of food, medicines, &c.
10. Many of Your Memorialists are domiciled in India and Ceylon, and are com- pelled to make periodical remittances to those countries for persons dependent upon them, for education of children, and for paying premia on life assurance policies.
11. Your Memorialists as Government servants are strictly debarred from engag- ing in business, or in other ways doing anything to improve their financial position, and, therefore, they have no other alternative than the one they now adopt, of appeal ing for help to those for whom they labour. For the necessaries of life they are dependent upon those who can arbitrarily fix the prices of such necessaries 30 as to guard themselves from loss, whereas Your Memorialists are so situated that for any relief possible they are solely dependent upon the consideration of their emplovers, namely, the Government. Your Memorialists, therefore, appeal carnestly to Your Honour to favourably consider their case.
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B
50
30
70
3 2 2 2 2 2
42
60
32