CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12] — Page 578

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2. I would however beg leave to

invite Your Lordship's attention to the

protest

Aus

affording

a fresh illustre-

on

which

-tion of the determination,

I commented in

mny

Confidential

Despatch of December 6th

1892, of

Sov

92-3

the Unofficial members (or rather of

them who unfortunately has

one of them

for the present the means of Carrying his colleagues with him

even against their better judgement)

to attempt to make Government either

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ridiculous

or

impossible, with a

View to bringing about an

alteration

in the constitution of the Colony.

3.

In Whitehead, who is the

real author of the motion for

the reduction of salaries, declared

in October 1890 (vide Stauward

1890-91 page 9) that the finances

of the Colony might

as

might be regarded

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"fairly satisfactory", and "that the Public would be very glad that the Secretary of State had sanctioned a "considerable increase" in official

Since then the revenue

Salaries.

has increased, and the continued depreciation of silver has considerably

reduced the purchasing power of the official salaries.

It is singular

that while in other Eastern Colonies.

measures

art

being considered for

Compensating Officials for this

further depreciation, in Hongkong

the reduction

where