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has been adopted by Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Co. in this

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Colony for the payment of their employés engaged in England.

10.

Your Lordship's telegram of the 19th. May

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debars me from making any recommendation in this matter, but

I have nevertheless thought it advisable to write fully

with regard to it, and I shall be greatly obliged if I could

be furnished with an expression of Your Lordship's views

that I can put before the Legislative Council of the

Colony.

I would add that the subject was brought before

the meeting of the Executive Council on the 10th. of May

last when Sir Paul Chater, the Senior Unofficial Member,

asked me to appoint a Committee to enquire into it, a

course which did not appear to me to be advisable. To a

question as to whether the Government would consider the

advisability of granting relief to those Civil Servants who

were drawing their pay on a sterling basis, put by Mr. H.

E. Pollock, K.C., representative of the Unofficial Justices

of the Peace in the Legislative Council, at their meeting

on the 17th. May, I replied that I had communicated with

Your Lordship

in the matter. Mr. E. A. Hewett, the member

representing the Chamber of Commerce, has also asked ques-

tions on the subject which he has intimated to me he pro-

poses to bring up again when the Estimates are under consi-

deration

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