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of the day.
No mention was made of dollar salaries, but, as such salaries were payable at the privileged rate of 3/- they were regarded as being to all intents and purposes sterling salaries, and they were accordingly, and still are, converted at the new rate allowed for sterling salaries.
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8,
An enquiry has recently been made by a dollar officer, whether actual dollars instead of 3/- pieces may be drawn when on leave or on pension. The reply would obviously seem to be that this cannot be allowed, unless the officer is she prepared to draw his salary also in actual dollers. This of course
he would never consent to.
For example, an officer whose salary is at the rate of $4,800 would not consent to receive, when in the Colony, four hun- -dred dollars a month in place of the six hundred and twenty-. -one dollars which he in fact receives under the four-fifths
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at 1/9 rate, with exchange at 3/4
7.
In short, the various rules as to
exchange compensation have been made for the express purpose of stabilising rates of payment; and it seems to me that an officer should not be allowed to depart there from only to
such extent as may suit his personal convenience. He should
be required to accept or to forego all privileges and dis-
-abilities together as a whole. In any event no concession
should be granted unless officers on sterling salaries are
given an equal privilege.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient,
humble servant,
Romaz
Governor, &c..
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