CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12] — Page 666

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permanent home there, or who have to remit for family purposes

should

have their salaries fixed

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sterling basis, and

that where the amount

of a salary

was

originally

fixed in sterling, it should

in each

year consist of

such number of dollars `as would produce that

amount at the

average

rate of exchange in the previous years.

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As regards officers

other than the above (with

//

the exception of labourers "coolies and messengers,

" whose

wages

have from

" time to time fluctuated

"

"with the local labour

"market"), they

recommend

that their salaries should

be increased to the extent

of 20 per cent.

6.

The above exception

with regard to labourers is made because without it

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