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His Excellency

I have the honour to acknowledge Your Excel-

-lency's letter of 27th, March on the subject of the suggestion

which I made that the rule under which the rates for payment of

salaries is at present determined should be amendel. In doing so

I must express my profound regret that the additional hardship

which the working of the rule caused to Civil Servants last month

has not elicited from Your Excellency a more sympathetic reply.

2.

1 am aware that the rule in question en-

-bodies the instructions of the Secretary of State made sore

pears ago, and therefore could not be altered without the Secre-

-Lary of State's sanction. I was in hopes that the hardship to

which I drew attention would have been so apparent, that Your

Excellency have seen fit to cable to the Secretary of State for

pereission to introduce a modification of the rule, seeing that

so many Civil Servants are so seriously affected by it.

3.

I regret that it should be necessary for me

to assure Your Excellency that I ar familiar with the elements

of the subject, and that I should not have troubled Your Excel-

-lency with a suggestion which was capable of being put aside by

so simple a method as Your Excellency has adopted. On referring

to my letter Your Excellency will see that the possibility that

in certain circumstances the rule in question might work profit-

-ably to Civil Servants was not overlooked; but I invited Your

Excellency

Sir Matthew Nathan, K.C.M.G.,

Governor and Commander-in-Chief.