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No, foray 4 12:

3.

Further petition has been received from

Government servants which I shall forward shortly

with proposals for relief in matter of remittances".

I now forward the second memorial to which

reference was made in the concluding sentence of the

above telegram, signed by 573 Government officers on

sterling salaries.

4. It will be observed that the eleventh

paragraph of the memorial refers to the practice

adopted by certain firms in the Colony and this point

is covered by the telegram quoted above; the further

enquiries have not so far elicited any information of

interest.

5. Enquiries into the cost of living, as

instructed in the third paragraph of Your Lordship's

despatch under acknowledgment, are being pressed

forward and an attempt will be made to arrive at

periodical index figures of European food budgets.

6. As regards the fourth paragraph of the memenal despatch I have come to the conclusion that any

inquisition into the means adopted by individual

officers for the support of dependants in the United

Kingdom would be open to serious objections and that

the only practicable means of dealing with such

hardships is by means of a flat rate of conversion

privilege in respect of such dependants as are in a

country the currency of which is based on gold.

7. I would therefore submit for Your Lordship's

approval the proposal that any officer on sterling

salary having a wife or having a single child in a

gold