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out there is much in the Memorial worthy of Your Lordship's consideration and I would draw special attention to its 11th paragraph.
4. The 2nd Memorial puts the case of Officers on the whole moderately and correctly except that in my opinion Table 'A' which is intended to show that a head of a junior department requires, to live reasonably, $9,924 or say at $9 to the Pound £1,100 per annum and a junior Officer $4,260 or say £475 per annum does, as seems to have been anticipated by the memorialists in paragraph 8 of the document, prove somewhat too much. But I am satisfied as to the general accuracy of the statements and figures in Tables 'B' and 'C', and that it is not overstating the case to say that the cost in dollars of those items of living which are paid for on a silver basis has gone up at least 20 per centum since 1902 when the Sterling Salary Scheme was introduced and during which year the average Gold value of the dollar was 1 shilling and 8 pence. A factor which has undoubtedly contributed to this rise is the increasing wealth of the community, as evidenced by the growth in the revenue of the Colony, from $4,901,074 in 1902 to an amount estimated at $6,448,025 for
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out there is much in the Memorial worthy of Your Lordship's
consideration and I would draw special attention to its
11th. paragraph.
4.
The 2nd. Memorial puts the case
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of Officers on the whole moderately and correctly except
that in my opinion Table 'A' which is intended to show
that a head of a junior department requires, to live reason-
-ably, $9,924 or say at $9 to the Pound £1,100 per annum and
a junior Officer $4,260 or say £475 per annum does, as
seems to have been anticipated by the memorialists in
paragraph 8 of the document, prove somewhat too much. But
I am satisfied as to the general accuracy of the statements
and figures in Tables 'B' and 'C', and that it is not
overstating the case to say that the cost in dollars of
those items of living which are paid for on a silver basis
has gone up at least 20 per centum since 1902 when the
Sterling Salary Scheme was introduced and during which
year the average Gold value of the dollar was 1 shilling
and 8 pence. A factor which has undoubtedly contributed
to this rise is the increasing wealth of the community,
as
evidenced by the growth in the revenue of the Colony, from $4,901,074 in 1902 to an amount estimated at $6,448,025
for
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