CO129-346 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [1-3] — Page 396

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Hongkong.

My Lord,

539

14054

24 APR 08

Government House,

Hongkong, 24th. March, 1908.

I have the honour to inform Your

Lordship that in July, 1906, the Petition (copy of which is

enclosed) was submitted on behalf of the Indian Police

praying for the substitution of exchange compensation for

the system under which they remit half of their pay to

India at the enhanced rate of 44 cents to the Rupee, and

for an increase of pay.

2.

As the latter did not appear to be

called for at the time, Sir Matthew Nathan did not entertain

the application, but in order to obviate the discounting

of remittances in the Colony by Indian Police some of whom

have no trustworthy person to remit to in India, and the

squandering of remittance money by the payees in India, he

allowed the Indian Police to remit to Banks in India, a

system which obtains in the Hongkeng and Singapore Battal-

-ion, Royal Artillery, It was hoped that this concession

would

ER RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF KLGIN, K.G.,

$0....

8000 = +

&C. 1