CO129-533-13 Salaries- conversion rate of sterling 30-1-1931 - 21-1-1932 — Page 300

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In this connection we would call to mind that

the Civil Servant is largely if not entirely

precluded from participating in the financial

benefits derived by the remainder of the community

in times of prosperity, because he is not permitted

to be interested in trade or to acquire land, or

to speculate in shares or even to hold any shares

except those of which the Governor may expressly

approve. Moreover, in times of prosperity the

Civil Servant is told that he must not envy the

financial status of the members of the commercial

community, because the civil servant's income

though small is immune from all risks.

22. The second suggestion is that the state of

the Colony's finances will not admit of the payment

of the prescribed salaries.

Your Petitioners respectfully submit that

though the finances of the Colony appear superficiallly

to be in a parlous state the remedy is ready to

the hand of the Government.

The inhabitants of the Colony pay no Income Tax.

The expenses of administration are largely

expenses which in England would be the cost of

municipal administration and would be paid out of

the assessed rates.

The maximum assessed rate in this Colony is

s.d.

17 per cent

England.

equivalent to a rate of 3/4 in

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