CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4] — Page 361

to Eman Deen, late First Class

Indian Turnkey in Victoria Gaol.

2.

With regard to the~ question of the value of quarters, it should be borne in mind that rents in this Colony are exceptionally high

general rule at least 1/6 of an officer's sala_

and that as a

ry is expended on house rent. The quarters actually occupied by

Eman Deen in the Gaol could not perhaps be fairly

valued

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valued at so high a figure

that shewn in the enclosed

calculation, but as those

e

as

quarters have been long garded as inadequate, I am of opinion that the value to him of free quarters would be more equitably estimated by considering what the cost would be if suitable quarters had to be provided for him outside the Gaol. As his status was the same as that of other Turnkeys who are at present

drawing