TELEGRAM
C.O.
44061
BC14
From the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Dated 9th September,1918.
(Received Colonial Office. 1 a.m. 10th September,1918).
Treas
7625
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Your despatch 19th February No.49 I have been asked to forward following telegram begins Unofficial Members of Legislative Council earnestly request the Secretary of State for the Colonies to urge on the Naval and Military Authorities that in view of the continued and substantial rise in the dollar which now stands at over 3/6 it is most desirable that all the Naval and Military establishments in the Colony should be granted the privilege of drawing the whole of their pay at rate of 2/ to the dollar and that all dollar allowances should be allowed to be drawn in dollar. They also suggest that the revenue of this Colony should be allowed to be used for making up any part of the extra expenditure so involved which the Naval and Military Authorities are not prepared to undertake ends. If I may make a suggestion it is that exchange should now be so fixed that the amount in dollars received at the date of the recent concession should not be subject to decrease owing to any further rise in exchange since that date.
The decrease since that date in both services amounts to not less
than per cent. I cannot recommend that Colonial Revenues should be charged with any expense in the matter.
MAY.
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