CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5] — Page 149

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"granted the privilege of remitting half their pay to India at the rate of $44 to $100.

In justification of my action in taking this course without previous reference to you, I venture to repeat, what I perhaps did not sufficiently emphasize in my former despatch, that I was placed in a difficult position by the absolute refusal of a large draft of recruits, who arrived from India on the same day on which your despatch W:57 was received, to enlist in the Force unless some such privilege as that in question was conceded to them, nor could they be induced to enlist pending a reference of their case to you.

To have turned these recruits adrift would have left the Police Force seriously undermanned, besides entailing on

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145 "granted the privilege of remitting half their pay to India at the rate of $44 to $100. In justification of my action in taking this course without previous reference to you, I venture to repeat, what I perhaps did not sufficiently emphasize in my former despatch, that I was placed in a difficult position by the absolute refusal of a large draft of recruits, who arrived from India on the same day on which your despatch W:57 was received, to enlist in the Force unless some such privilege as that in question was conceded to them, nor could they be induced to enlist pending a reference of their case to you. To have turned these recruits adrift would have left the Police Force seriously undermanned, besides entailing on
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"granted the privilege of remitting half their pay to India at the rate of $44 to

W$100.

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In justification of action in taking this

course without previous, ference to

you

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I venture to

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"repeat, what I perhaps did not sufficiently emphasize in my former despatch, that I was

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in a

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draft of recruits, who arrived

from

On-

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on the same.

-day

which your despatch W:57

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the Force unless some s

privilege as that in question

was conceded to them, nor

could they be induced to en list pending a reference of to you.

their case

To have turned these re

cruits adrift would have left". the Police Force seriously under manned, besides entailing

on

the

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