CO129-346 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [1-3] — Page 132

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MAR 08

Government House,

Hongkong, 1st.February,

1908.

I have the honour to forward

copies of three letters addressed to me by the Chief

Justice which are in continuation of previous correspondenc e

on the subject of the method of conversion of Sterling

January, 1908. "do..

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Salaries into local currency which, His Honour has given

me to understand, he desires should be submitted for Your

Lordship's consideration.

2.

I have no comments to make on this

correspondence except that I shall be glad to learn whether

Your Lordship concurs in the interpretation of the con-

-struction to be placed upon the 2nd. paragraph of your

Despatch No. 122 of the 11th. June last, which has been

adopted by the Treasury, namely that, when the demand rate

of the dollar varies between a figure above and a figure

below 2/- from the 15th. of one month to the 15th. of the

next, the average value of the dollar during such period,

provided

RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,

&C. *

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