CO129-503-11 Leave and passage- lodging and rent allowance for European officers 6-1-1927 - 26-10-1927 — Page 71

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"As a temporary measure of relief to mitigate

the increased cost of remittances to England, consequent

on the recent fall in the exchange value of the dollar,

Supplementary to

the arrangements for the payment locally in dollars of

the

salaries fixed in sterling/the following devrisa

arrangement/ has been approved:

"Where an officer's wife and one child, or two

children, one of whom is over 7 years of age, are in a

sterling country, one third of the officer's salary as

now paid in dollars will be paid in sterling at the

s

rate of $/- £1.

offric's wife alone

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where

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7 years of age.

alone is

sterling countr

quarter

J

the

offrici Lalary

hand in dollars will

he

be paid in Starting

at

the

sate of

$8: £1.

The difference between the cost of the remittances at

$8

ईर्श

the actual Treasury rate for

the mouth is faid by Government

&

These concessions are only temporary, it must be clearly understood that they may

with drawn at

any

tiine.

be