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rather more than two shillings and two and a half pence as at present, Sir John Anderson's scheme would mean an immediate addition of 5 per centum to salaries. This would not remove present grounds of complaint.
11. A more acceptable scheme would be if an additional cent were given on every dollar for every quarter penny that the dollar rises above two shillings. With the dollar at two shillings and two and a half pence the addition would then be 10 per centum. If it went to two shillings and six pence the addition would be 24 per centum which might be laid down as a maximum instead of the 12 per centum suggested by Sir John Anderson. The actual effect of the scheme is practically to pay salaries at a fictitious rate of two shillings to the dollar. On the whole the scheme suggested in paragraph of my Confidential Despatch of the 13th July, 1906, appears simpler.
12. I regret the delay due to my recent illness and absence and to the complicated nature of the question in forwarding the Memorials and Petitions submitted to me in October and November of last year and I would urge on Your Lordship the necessity for some early action
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rather more than two shillings and two and half pence as
at present, Sir John Anderson's scheme would mean an
immediate addition of 5 per centum to salaries. This would
not remove present grounds of complaint.
11.
A more acceptable scheme would be
if an additional cent were given on every dollar for every
quarter penny that the dollar rises above two shillings.
With the dollar at two shillings and two and half pence
the addition would then be 10 per centum. If it went to
two shillings and six pence the addition would be 24 per
centum which might be laid down as a maximum instead of
the 12 per centum suggested by Sir John Anderson. The
actual effect of the scheme is practically to pay salaries
at a fictitious rate of two shillings to the dollar. On
the whole the scheme suggested in paragraph of my Con-
-fidential Despatch of the 13th. July, 1906, appears
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simpler.
12.
I regret the delay due to my
recent illness and absence and to the complicated nature
of the question in forwarding the Memorials and Petitions
submitted to me in October and November of last year and
I would urge on Your Lordship the necessity for some early
action
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