CO882-6 — Page 292

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

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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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70

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42

60

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