CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11] — Page 425

hav recently been made to

Me

by

む

officer of this

Government, (the "Steward

: the Government Civil Hospital),

who has been granted three

months vreation leave to ~ enable him to proceed to America for the benefit of his health, to be allowed to draw his salary while in that country in sterling at 4/2 to the dollar.

Mr. Rogers had

onade no a arrangements by

which

no

432

which he could so draw his

- salary through the Crown Agents, and apparently what

he desired to be done was either that his salary should

him here in

or drawn

for

doilare at the enhanced rate

due to a nominal conversion

from sterling at 4/2 into

local currency at market. -

し

rates, or that

that an

arrangement

an arr

should be made for him - with the Hongkong and

Changhai Bank, which has

iz