CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12] — Page 526

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gestion of the senior member who

was one

of the Retrenchment Com mittee unanimously voted for -exchange compensation allowance from the 1st January

an

1894 and without hesitation_ made provision in the Estimates for 1895 for such an allowance in future.

With reference to par graph 5 of your despatch I may

observe that it was never

my

intention to charge an annually recurring compensation al-

lowance

lowance to surplus balances. Provision has in the Estimates

been made for 1895. It was how

intention to charge.

ever

my

the back payment for 1894 against

such balances as an extraordina

extraordinary and exceptional measure and seeing that a portion of the balances may be regarded

As

Surplus Revenue of 1893 I do not think any serious

objection

could be raised to such an

Course.

The proposed expenditure

Tyre

on

2

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