R
3rd May, 1900,
28th August, 1897.
Cents.
Cente.
Per catty
30
22
Country Cabbage
Each
18
14
China Spring Cabbage
20
16
Bengal Cabbage
11
21
16
Bombay Onions
***
**
Small Onions
...
Garlic
Por lb.
26
Each
30
4
19
24
19
Groen Chillies
***
30
***
"
Per catty
19
20
22 22 2
20
16
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3rd May, 1900.
28th August, 1897.
Each.
Centre.
50
Cents.
20
"
Per catty
20
X
G
"
6
7
11
G
G
13
X
19
Dried Chillies
14
23
Chillics
8
16
***
13
Limes, largo and sonall
Por 100
80
1 dollar,
Fowl (full grown)
Smaller Fowl
Chicken
Duck (full grown)
Euch
GO
1
50
"
30
13
70
**
Smaller Duck
42
32
91
Goose
Capon
...
10
2
+
4
11
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Per catty
"1
Siakab
18
11
Ginahap
16
11
Ekan Lidah (Soles)
11
Bawal Patch
11
Etam
"
11
11
Tambah (Pomfret)
19
Sontong (Cattle Fish)
Boongha Ayer
Large Prawns
Small Prawns
25
* 2 * * * * 28 2 2 2 2
20
24
25
16
30
16
16
25
14
"
Crabs
Each
2
Freshwater Crabs
8
0 20 21 2ENN
18
20
16
24
16
Potatoes :-
Bongal Potatoes
Sweet Potatoes
*
Acheen Ya
Per catty
6
5
2
2
4
3
11
Vegetables, &c.:--
Green Poas
Lettuce
Celery
Per catty
3
45
16
8
13
8
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سلسليا
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
PC.O. 882
Pine Applo (Mauritius).....
(Country)
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, coconut oil, firo- 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 so 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 employers, namely, the Government. Your Memorialists, therefore, appeal earnestly to Your Honour to favourably consider their case.
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