CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5] — Page 456

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108, Evering Road,

Stoke Newington,

London, N.16.

11th March, 1924.

The Under Segretary of State,

The Colonial Office,

Downing Street, S,W,1,

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I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, No. 6338/24, dated the 5th instant, which

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I shall be happy to meet Mr. H. G. R. Leonard,

with whom I have made an appointment.

It does not,

however, appear to be in any way possible, from the

nature of the case, that an estimate can now be formed

of the extent of the costs which the multiplied calcu-

lations and the necessary judgment would involve. These

costs, to select some elements, are dependent upon the

mumber of members (with the dates of their births and

those of their wives and children); the duration of

individual service; the periods of bachelorhood, married.

life and widowerhood; the number of children in each

family (and their sex) as the issue of first, second and subsequent marriages during membership; the amount of the original salary in each case, and the dates and amounts of every subsequent increase or decrease. you will notice that if changes in salaries be few, or second and subsequent marriages be infrequent (although experience shows that they are not so), the costs would be curtailed, and thus it is impracticable to hasard any

forecast of the extent of the work.

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