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ther that it was not so much the intrinsic merits of their case as the increase proposed to be granted to the majority of the Chinese staff that in- duced the petitioners to move

in the matter.

کچھ

In paragraph 7 the petitioners state in effect that the reasons which ap- -ply to the case of the Chinese, apply equally

to their case.

With this I cannot

agree.

and on the following grounds..

(a) there

(a) There is a minimum li-

in er

ving wage

a

community:

every

class of

in the case

the Chinese that has been

raised.

by the advance in rents and the prices of the necessities of life, and it is to meet this enhanced mi-

nimum living

that living wage

the grant is proposed to be made to the Chinese. This

is not the case with the Yor

tuguese and Indians whose salaries considerably execed

the

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